Harlow

Harlow is a New Town in which was mostly developed after the Second World War. It includes a historic settlement which is now known as Old Harlow.
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  • Type: Town with 93,300 residents
  • Description: town in the west of Essex, England
  • Also known as: “Harlow (parish)”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Harlow Town railway station and Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Railway station
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is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the town of Harlow in , England. It is 22 miles 59 chains down the line from and is situated between and stations.

Hospital
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The is an acute general hospital in Harlow, , England. It is managed by the NHS Trust.

Park
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is a 164-acre public park in Harlow, , England. The park is one of the largest urban parks in Britain. It includes multiple gardens, a petting zoo named the Pets' Corner, a , and the Spurriers House Café.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Harlow and Great Parndon.

Suburb
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is the old town area of Harlow, in , . It was the historical town centre prior to Harlow being designated a new town in 1947 during the new towns in the United Kingdom movement.

Suburb
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is an area of Harlow in , England. Until the mid-20th century, was a rural parish comprising a number of scattered hamlets.

Village
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is a hamlet in the civil parish of the Epping Forest district of , England. The hamlet is centred on the junction of Road, which runs southwest to the A414 road and the Junction 7 of the M11 motorway, and Mill Street, which runs north to Harlow Common and Potter Street. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Harlow.

Harlow

Latitude
51.7686° or 51° 46′ 7″ north
Longitude
0.0949° or 0° 5′ 42″ east
Population
93,300
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HRL
Open location code
9F32Q39V+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20972755
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647461
Wiki­data ID
Q852729
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Harlow” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Harlow”
  • Arabic: “هارلو”
  • Armenian: “Հարլոու”
  • Asturian: “Harlow”
  • Azerbaijani: “Harlov”
  • Basque: “Harlow”
  • Belarusian: “Харлау”
  • Belarusian: “Харлаў”
  • Bengali: “হারলো”
  • Breton: “Harlow”
  • Bulgarian: “Харлоу”
  • Catalan: “Harlow”
  • Cebuano: “Harlow”
  • Chinese: “Harlow”
  • Chinese: “哈勞”
  • Chinese: “哈洛”
  • Cornish: “Harlow”
  • Czech: “Harlow”
  • Danish: “Harlow”
  • Dutch: “Harlow”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هارلو”
  • Esperanto: “Harlow”
  • French: “Harlow”
  • German: “Harlow”
  • Gujarati: “હાર્લો”
  • Hebrew: “הרלאו”
  • Indonesian: “Harlow”
  • Irish: “Harlow”
  • Italian: “Harlow”
  • Japanese: “ハーロー”
  • Japanese: “ハーロウ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾರ್ಲೋ”
  • Korean: “할로”
  • Korean: “할로우”
  • Ladin: “Harlow”
  • Latin: “Herlaua”
  • Latvian: “Hārlova”
  • Lithuanian: “Harlou”
  • Luxembourgish: “Harlow”
  • Macedonian: “Харлоу”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harlow (koān)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harlow”
  • Moksha: “Гарлов”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harlow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harlow i Essex”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harlow”
  • Norwegian: “Harlow”
  • Persian: “هارلو”
  • Polish: “Harlow”
  • Portuguese: “Harlow”
  • Romanian: “Harlow”
  • Russian: “Харлоу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harlow”
  • Silesian: “Harlow”
  • Slovak: “Harlow”
  • Slovenian: “Harlow”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هارلو”
  • Spanish: “Harlow”
  • Swedish: “Harlow”
  • Tamil: “ஹார்லோவ்”
  • Tatar: “Һарлоу”
  • Telugu: “హర్లౌ”
  • Turkish: “Harlow”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарлов”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарлоу”
  • Urdu: “ہارلو”
  • Volapük: “Harlow”
  • Welsh: “Harlow”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈勞”
  • “Harlow”

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