Northwick Road

The name

Northwick Road may take its name from Northwick Park Golf Club. Alister MacKenzie wrote in 1923 of his involvement in changes to the course, and Northwick Park Hospital now covers most of the site.

Club dates: 1923 (wound up after the Second World War).

Where the club's facts come from: Northwick Park Golf Club, Watford Road, Harrow. (1923 - WW2), Golf's Missing Links.

How sure we are of the match: Possible

The estate's streets were named after golf courses. The streets page explains how each match was made.

In the story

• The old woods: Pond Wood and the smaller woods
  Pond Wood, at Northwick Road and Seacroft Gardens, was a plot of the Oxhey Place farm in 1872, beside a large pond called Park Pond.
• Schools: Oxhey Wood
  The school crossing patrol at the Northwick Road entrance served for over thirty years, and a former pupil remembers the school emblem of the early 1980s as a grey squirrel.
• Pond Wood
  Pond Wood is a small wood at Northwick Road and Seacroft Gardens, known for old pollarded hornbeams that were still being cut in the estate's early years.
• Clarendon School (site)
  The day centre on Northwick Road uses buildings that were once part of the school, and another part was used for years by the Industrial Therapy Organisation.

Close by

Buildings

• Oxhey Wood Primary School 130 m
• Clarendon School (site) 130 m
• Site of Park Pond 190 m
• The Cow Shed and Fayer Hall (site) 220 m
• Health centre, Oxhey Drive 240 m

Ancient woods

• Pond Wood 120 m
• Oxhey Woods, central part (Ashen Spring) 360 m
• Sandpit Wood, railway strip 390 m

Walk stops

• Park Pond and Pond Wood 190 m
  Farms and lost houses walk
• Pond Wood 210 m
  The heart of the estate walk
• Health centre and police station 240 m
  Schools, churches and shops walk

Distances are in a straight line from a point on the street.