The eponymous Weald Stone is a sarsen stone, positioned to mark the then boundary between the parishes of Harrow and Harrow Weald. It is located outside the Bombay Central restaurant, which was built as a public house (previously known as the Weald Stone Inn and prior to that, the Red Lion), outside 328 High Road, Harrow Weald. Wealdstone Urban District was created under the Local Government Act 1894 in 1894, and absorbed by Harrow Urban District in 1934. Much of the housing stock in central Wealdstone consists of Victorian and Edwardian terraces along with new flatted developments in High Street and George Gange Way. The former Eastman Kodak factory on Headstone Drive, Wealdstone. It was Kodak’s first outside the U.S., opened in 1891 and closed 2016, now demolished. The Kodak Harrow factory was located in Wealdstone until its closure in 2016. This, along with nearby factories of Winsor & Newton (a facility of the artists’ materials company which closed in 2010), Whitefriars Glass and Hamilton Brush Works,[9] turned Wealdstone into Harrow’s industrial centre. Waverley Industrial Estate still contains industry today. A Her Majesty’s Stationery Office factory in the area was demolished in 1996 and now replaced by Harrow Crown Court.

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