Pinner is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2008 by Navin Shah ( Labour). Pinner has two wards, Pinner and Pinner South, each represented by three councillors. Harrow Council has been governed by the Conservative Party since 2022. The west tower and south porch date from the 15th century. Pinner's St John the Baptist parish church was consecrated in 1321, but built on the site of an earlier Christian place of worship. In 1965 it became a part of the London Borough of Harrow in the newly formed ceremonial county of Greater London. ![]() Pinner lay within the historic county of Middlesex it was located at the western end of the hundred of Gore, before it was in the Hendon Rural District. : 25 Pinner is also the site of one of the UK's oldest chartered fairs, held annually since 1336. Pinner contains a large number of homes built in the 1930s Art Deco style, the most grand of which is the Grade II listed Elm Park Court at the junction of West End Lane and Elm Park Road. The area is now continuous with neighbouring suburban districts including Rayners Lane and Eastcote. : 176–184 It was largely from this time onwards that the area (including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner) assumed much of its present-day suburban character. The village expanded rapidly between 19 when a series of garden estates, including the architecturally significant Pinnerwood estate conservation area – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core. : 34 The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth century. ![]() The parish became independent of St Mary's in 1766, when the first perpetual curate was appointed not until the Wilberforce Act of 1868 did it appoint its first vicar, one William Hind. It was rebuilt in the early fourteenth-century, and rededicated in 1321. The church was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill, and was first mentioned in 1234. John the Baptist, at the junction of the present day Grange Gardens, The High Street and Church Lane. The oldest part of the town lies around the fourteenth-century parish church of St. Another suggestion of the name is that it means 'hill-slope shaped like a pin'. : 1 The name Pinn is shared with the River Pinn, which runs through the middle of Pinner. ![]() ( slang ) A record turntable or CD player.Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora, : 11 although the already archaic -ora (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than circa 900.( pinball ) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night. 2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days (page 15).( Jamaica ) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her.
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