Harlow

Harlow District of Harlow
Town & District
Harlow Water Gardens
Shown within Essex
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Ceremonial County	Essex
Government
• Leadership	Alternative – Sec.31
• Control	Labour Party UK
• MP	Robert Halfon
Area
• District	11.79 sq mi (30.54 km2)
Population
• District	Ranked 282nd 86,000
• Density	7,290/sq mi (2,815/km2)
• Ethnicity	92.5% White 2.5% Asian 1.8% Black 1.6% Chinese or Other 1.5% Mixed
ONS code	22UJ
Website	http://www.harlow.gov.uk/

Harlow is a former Mark One New Town and local government district in the west of Essex, England. It is on the border with Hertfordshire. Harlow is a large area of land on the south bank of the upper Stort Valley, which has been made navigable through other towns and features a canal section near its watermill. Old Harlow is a village-size suburb founded in the early medieval age and most of its high street buildings are early Victorian and residential, mostly protected by one of the Conservation Areas in the district. In Old Harlow is a field named Harlowbury, a de-settled monastic area which has the remains of a chapel, a scheduled ancient monument.

The M11 motorway passes through the east of the district, entirely to the east of the town. Harlow has its own commercial and leisure economy. It is also an outer part of the London commuter belt and employment centre of the M11 corridor which includes Cambridge and London Stansted to the north.