Roxbourne


Roxbourne is a hamlet of London Borough of Harrow west of Rayners Lane in the north west of
Greater London.
It is home to Yeading Brook and the Roxbourne Park
which provides 26 hectares of open space including football and cricket facilities, the Roxbourne Rough Nature Reserve which is enriched with wild life and the Roxbourne Railway.

Social Structure

The first census in 1801 simply divided people into those employed in agriculture and those in trade or manufacturing, and the 1841 census, the first to gather
detailed occupational data, imposed no real order on it at all. However, the first occupational classification, introduced in 1851, was clearly concerned with social
status as well as with what people made: it began with the Queen, followed by government officials and then by 'the learned professions'.