Welcome to Roys Harlow. Harlow is a town in the South East of England in the County of Essex. The town is about 26 miles from the centre of London and 9 - 12 miles from Stansted airport. Harlow is on the borders of the county of Essex and the county of Hertfordshire, so close that while standing in Harlow you can have a foot in both counties. Harlow's current population is around 85,000. Harlow is twinned with two towns; Havířov (Czech Republic ) Velizy-Villacoublay (France) Harlow has all of the amenities you would expect of a modern town. Sports are well catered for, a new wet and dry centre is planned to replace the existing swimming pool and sportcentre. When it comes to retail there are two main shopping areas, The High, (town centre) Map and Temple Fields Map where the larger "out of town" warehouse type shops are. Industry is diverse, many firms taking advantage of the M11 and the nearby A10 linking Harlow with London, Cambridge, Stansted Airport and the M25. Harlow is also served by two stations linking to the same destinations, neither station is in the town centre, in London the train terminates at Liverpool Street Station, the trains are operated by National Express East Anglia. Harlow Station maps, taxi phone numbers & bus Lane maps Harlow was one of the first new towns constructed since the Second World War In 2007 Harlow will be 60 years old. In the 1950's the majority of the new town settlers came from North London, around Edmonton, consequently there are a lot of Tottenham Hotspurs and Arsenal fans within the town, so many Spurs fans they opened a Spurs shop in the Harvey Centre to serve them, Spurs Store location map. Harlow is the main town in the area for the emergency services, the fire and rescue , police and ambulance service all use it for their main base. The Police have the Western divisional headquarters in Harlow, covering the areas of Brentwood, Ongar and as far South as Chigwell. The hospital "Princess Alexandra" is the main accident and emergency hospital for the area, if you're unfortunate enough to have a accident on the M11 or at Stanstead Airport .....welcome to Harlow.   Harlow Photos The above link has links to sites featuring photos of Harlow Essex ranging from before Harlow new town was built through to present day. There are also 80 small photos from roysharlow.co.uk, with the start of Roys Harlow Photos section with 150 photos To navigate roysharlow.co.uk, use the menu on the left of this page for 100's of Harlow Links, on the right of the page are Roys High Street links, 1000's of gift ideas and Holidays. Just below the top of the page is a horizontal menu, this is the main navigation, it appears on every page. Roy's Harlow has been undergoing a major re-design: unlike other sites the design changes are live, where most sites would close then put up a new design at a later date, Roys Harlow has attempted to keep the most popular link sections active. Because of the re-design, some subsections or links to them have been removed. roysharlow.co.uk was designed to be viewed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 but it will squeeze down to 800x600. Site tested using Explorer 7.5 and Firefox 1.07.