Pinner also has the lowest crime rate in the whole of London, with several independent schools and single-sex schools with a prestigious reputation, making it a popular area for affluent families. Various churches, a synagogue and others serve the religious needs of the community. In 2013 the Pinner South ward had the next highest proportion of white people in the borough at 69.4 per cent. Pinner ward nonetheless had the highest concentration of people describing themselves as white in the London Borough of Harrow, at 72 per cent of the population in 2011. Pinner is both a religiously and culturally mixed area, with the ethnic minority population having grown significantly since the 1970s. Since the 2010 general election, Pinner has been part of the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner parliamentary constituency, currently served by David Simmonds. 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.
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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. 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.
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