A Glorious Reminder of Metro-Land ; Country Meets City in a North London Suburb That Boasts a Private

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'I know a land where the wild flowers grow, near, near at hand if by train you go.'

The Metropolitan railway, the first Underground, did a fine line in spin. Its 1915 marketing campaign cleverly promoted Wembley and Neasden, Harrow and Pinner as the umbilical link between London and the country where, as John Betjeman later put it, 'city clerk turned countryman again'.

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A Glorious Reminder of Metro-Land ; Country Meets City in a North London Suburb That Boasts a Private

Now, of course, much of Metro-land has become just like the rest of the metropolis - with traffic blaring and shopping malls glaring, a thoroughly urban desert without a daisy or buttercup in sight. Except, that is, for Canons Drive in Edgware.

As you drive p...

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