Flask Walk is a street in

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in the

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. It runs eastwards from Hampstead High Street to a junction with Well Walk and New End Square. It is primarily residential but the western end of the street is a

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alley featuring commercial properties.

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is located close to the junction with the High Street. It takes its name indirectly from the flasks made for the

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produced at the nearby Hampstead Wells. The Flask public house is located near the western end of the street and was built in 1767, although the current building is Victorian.Cherry & Pevsner p.223 An earlier Upper Flask Tavern was a meeting place of the Kit Kat Club of the early

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, located in nearby Heath Street. A number of buildings in the street are now

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, many dating from the

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of the

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or earlier. The street also features the former Wells and Campden Baths, built in 1888 and closed in 1978. The 1736 Gardnor House is on the southern side of the street. A planned station of the

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was due to be located at the eastern end of the street, but although authorised in the 1860s it was never constructed.

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