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Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England.Founded as a new town, it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire, and occupies 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.
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.
Harlow District Council is the local authority for Harlow in Essex, England. Harlow is a non-metropolitan district, covering just the town of Harlow itself. The council generally styles itself Harlow Council. The council has been under Conservative majority control since 2021. It is based at Harlow Civic Centre.
Harlow is the home to a major collection of public sculptures (over 100 in total) by artists ranging from Auguste Rodin to Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Many of these are owned by the Harlow Art Trust, an organisation set up in 1953 by the lead architect of Harlow Frederick Gibberd.
They tell the story of Harlow and the transition it underwent to become a new town. Artwork on the boards also shows what the area could have looked like during the Roman Empire and the 12th...
- Shivani Chaudhari
Harlow is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Chris Vince, of the Labour and Co-operative Party. [n 2] Constituency profile. The seat has been a bellwether since the result in 1983.
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Harlow, new town and coextensive district, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It was designated by British planners in 1947 as one of London’s eight post-World War II new towns to promote the decentralization of the metropolis. The planned growth took place in neighbourhoods west.
