South Hill Park is a street in the

Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, 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 Lon ...

district of

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. It is within the

London Borough of Camden The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the area of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and St ...

, and some of its houses overlook

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Transport links

Hampstead Heath railway station Hampstead Heath railway station is in the London Borough of Camden in north London on the North London Line, between and stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2. Since 11 November 2007 it and the service there have been run by London Overground ...

, on the

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, is at the southern end of South Hill Park. Buses, chiefly the number 24, depart from nearby South End Green.

Ruth Ellis

The last woman to be hanged in Britain,

Ruth Ellis Ruth Ellis ( née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a British nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely. In her t ...

, was sentenced to death for a murder committed on South Hill Park. She shot her boyfriend David Blakely outside a public house,

The Magdala The Magdala, also known as The Magdala Tavern or colloquially as simply The Magy, is a pub on South Hill Park in Hampstead, north London. Named after the British victory in the 1868 Battle of Magdala, it was the site of a notorious murder in 1955. ...

, on 10 April 1955.

In popular culture

The opening shots of 1965 film '' Licensed to Kill'' (a low-budget pastiche of

James Bond films James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Nive ...

) are filmed at the southern end of the street near the entrance to Hampstead Heath opposite the station.

Notable residents

*The Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher spent his retirement and last years in South Hill Park, 1922–28. *The film director Anthony Minghella lived in South Hill Park until his death in 2008. His son, Max Minghella, had a role in the film ''

Hippie Hippie Shake ''Hippie Hippie Shake'' is an unreleased British drama film produced by Working Title Films. It is based on a memoir by Richard Neville, editor of the Australian satirical magazine '' Oz'', and chronicles his relationship with girlfriend Loui ...

'', parts of which were shot in the street and its surrounding area.Sienna Miller Online , Welcome
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Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s, hosted his own radio show on ...

and his family lived on South Hill Park in the 1990s. *The poet

Adrian Mitchell Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's Cam ...

lived in South Hill Park until his death in 2008. * David Baddiel * Bill Oddie, ornithologist and comedian, lived in South Hill Park in the 70s and 80s * Terrance Dicks, author and scriptwriter for ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...

'', has lived in South Hill Park since the 60s * Terry Gilliam, comedian, artist and film director, lived in South Hill Park in the 70s and 80s *

John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...

, classical guitarist, lived in South Hill Park in the 1970s and 80s

References

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South Hill Park (London street) South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of London. It is within the London Borough of Camden, and some of its houses overlook Hampstead Heath. Transport links Hampstead Heath railway station, on the North London Line, is at t ...