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Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the London Borough of Camden, a borough in Inner London which for the purposes of the London Plan is designated as part of Central London. Hampstead is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical, political, and literary associations. It contains a number of listed buildings, such as Burgh House, Kenwood House, the Spaniards Inn, Spaniard's Inn, and the Everyman Cinema, Hampstead, Everyman cinema, one of the oldest in the world. With some of the most expensive housing in London, List of people from Hampstead, Hampstead is known as London's home for the rich and famous, with local residents past and present including Helena Bonham Carter, Will Champion (Coldplay), Agatha Christie, T. S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Jon English, Sigmund Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downshire Hill
Downshire Hill is a street in Hampstead, London, in the London Borough of Camden. The street has always been a preferred residential address, in which the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the actress Peggy Ashcroft as well as the scientist J. D. Bernal and Peter Medawar resided. Geography The road runs between the A 502 (Rosslyn Hill) in the southwest and East Heath Road / South End Road in the northeast. The only branches are Keats Grove and Willow Road. While the road ends in the northeast on the edge of the Hampstead Heath nature park, it is "continued" in a south-westerly direction by Thurlow Road. On the grounds between Downshire Hill and Keats Grove is the St John's Downshire Hill. History The road was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century and is probably named after the first Marquess of Downshire, Wills Hill (1718–1793). Known residents During the First World War, the literary figures Constance, Edward and David Garnett lived in house number 6. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
