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The most beautiful & Magical neighborhood to my opinion
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It's too expensive to live here
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It is great to have such a place in London.
Britannia2 Says: The Hampstead Observatory is situated near the corner of Heath Street and Hampstead Grove, near Whitestone Pond, at the highest point in London. It is on a high grass covered underground reservoir, enclosed by iron railings.During open sessions the Observatory is manned by a...
Britannia2 Says: This part of Hampstead Heath was originally known as Gangmoor, and later as Hatches (or Hatchett’s) Bottom, after an early18th-century cottager. The Hampstead Water Company created a pond here in 1777, which drained enough of the formerly malarial marsh to allow houses to be...
Britannia2 Says: If you read my tip on the Chaybeate Well you will read that there is a spring on the Heath still where the famous spa water comes from.I have only seen one spring on the heath and there is a very small spring between Viaduct Bridge and the Vale of Health pond , close to the...
Britannia2 Says: I always used to eat here in the 1970s but it is sad to see today it is a health club. The pub was/ is a 1960s folly - a castelled, weather boarded tavern in Georgian Gothic style .However it is worth seeing from the outside - rebuilt after war damage in WW2 it is famed for...
planxty Says: You might find it difficult to believe that the roadsign pictured is situated within fifteen minutes walk of a Zone 3 tube station, but it is. Amongst the many lovely park areas in London is Hampstead Heath, a huge expanse of grassland and forest which affords superb virews...
planxty Says: If you've been out for a walk on Hampstead Heath (see seperate tip) you could do a lot worse than visit the Spaniards Inn for a spot of light refreshment. Built in 1585 as a country house for the Spanish ambassador, it is a lovely old-fashioned pub with a spacious beer...
Britannia2 Says: A Georgian house built in 1704 that is today a museum founded in 1979 by Christopher and Diana Wade housing over 3,000 objects relating to art and life in Hampstead. A permanent display of two rooms is located on the first floor, tracing Hampstead history from prehistoric...
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artiness Says: Gallery K has been in hampstead for nearly 20 years it promotes Contemporary Greek Art in London, as well as non Greek contemporary artists. It shows work in every medium - paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, ceramics - both by new, undiscovered talents and by...
Britannia2 Says: St Johns is a large parish church with an overgrown graveyard though passable on the gravel paths that twist through it. The tomb of John Constable is here who died in Hampstead in 1837 after many years of living in the village. The graveyard is actually eerie and sinister...
Britannia2 Says: If you have read my tip on St Johns Parish Church you will know that John Constable is buried there in the graveyard - he lived at 2 Lower Terrace and it was here that he painted the painting "The most beautful house in Hampstead" ( see my Admirals House tip). This cottage...
Britannia2 Says: I have only saw Fenton House from the outside as it was closed each time I passed. However I am including this museum here as part of my aim to make (over the years) comprehensive London pages. Fenton House is a National Trust property but opening times are very limited....
The Spaniards Inn: Literary pub
Britannia2 Says: A famous London pub at the northern end of Hampstead Heath , between Highgate and Hampstead.This is a 16th century inn with literary connections - it was immortalised in Dickens Pickwick Papers. It is thought that Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale here and rumour has it that...
Holly Bush Inn: Olde worlde London pub
Britannia2 Says: This gas lit, atmospheric pub dates from the 1640s and is one of Londons older pubs starting off life as the stable block of a nearby house.The pub retains many of its original features, such as etched glass windows, oak flooring, gas lamps and pressed tin ceiling and walls....
Britannia2 Says: The Flask was originally the Thatched House and it was here that water from the spring in Well Walk was brought and sold as spa water for 3d per flask. It was replaced with the Flask as we now know it in Victorian times and it was a working men's pub for the men who lived in...
Pentameters Theatre: Theatre near the tube
Britannia2 Says: I had never heard of Pentameters Theatre until I actually came across it when walking through Hampstead. Only 1 minute from the tube this theatre was founded in 1968 by local resident Leonie Scott Matthews and it shows a wide variety of productions. Housed in a building...
Britannia2 Says: There are two services to the main part of Hampstead ( the area around the tube station) - a 46 (to Lancaster Gate) and a 268 (to Golders Green). Other buses do stop near Hampstead Heath overground station and the Royal Free Hospital but these are some distance from the main...
Britannia2 Says: Northern Line trains serve Hampstead and it is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Golders Green and Belsize Park stations - coming rom central London it is sometimes required to change Northern Line trains at Camden Town to gain the Edgeware branch.The...
Hampstead Community Market: Local market
Britannia2 Says: A small market open only on Saturdays. A good variety of fruit and vegetables, meat , fish and sandwiches and cakes are the general things on sale. There is also a book stall.One of Londons smaller markets.
barryg23 Says: One of the quietest parts of Hampstead Heath is the section west of Spaniards Road. It's easy to get lost in here as there is no definite path but you're always close enough to the road to hear the cars rushing by in the distance. One sight worth seeing here is Pitt's...
barryg23 Says: Hill Garden is one of the most beautiful but also one of the least well known sights in Hampstead Heath. The garden was originally built as an extension to nearby Hill House though it became public property in the 1960s. There are fine views of the heath from terraces at the...
Plan a Hampstead vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Hampstead locals
Parliament Hill is located at the southern edges of Hampstead Heath. It's one of the highest points in London (at a mere 361 feet) and there are great views of...
3 members live in Hampstead
Q: i have a genealogy record of John Rogers Bolles, born aug 13 1810. He and his family lived in the old Hempstead house which was at...
A: Are you certain this record is for London UK? There is a 'New London' in Conneticut, with a Joshua Hempstead (possibly the son?) strongly associated with it (he wrote a...
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Hampstead is one of the nicest, quiets, beautiful and riches neighborhoods of London. I was living here for about 7 months and i love this place more then any other area of London. Its close to the......
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Hampstead is a beautiful area in North London with a decidedly different, more relaxing feel to the rest of the city. Originally a village outside of London, it developed into a spa town in the 18th...
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Hampstead is a hilly area in north west London. It is now a district with nice houses, good restaurants and within a reasonable distance of Hampstead Heath. Today it has some interesting restaurants,...
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The Heath and a whole lot more.
Hampstead is a delightful area in North London, dominated by the famous Hampstead Heath, a larege open space in what is essentially fairly central London. There is evidence of prehistoric people...
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My favourite London village - Hampstead
London is apparently made up of 27 London villages - Hampstead was originally a spa town in much the same way Harrogate in my native Yorkshire was, and is. Because of the diversity of London making......
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