In 1915, the Metropolitan Railway coined the term Metroland to describe a band of countryside just north-west of London, marketed as a land of idyllic cottages and wild flowers. But amid claims of ...
A "dreary" slice of north London suburbia romanticised by the poet John Betjeman may be given protected status. Metroland, built in the early 20th Century in Harrow, was one of Britain's first suburbs ...