Global InformationHampstead information
| Hampstead | |
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 Downshire Hill in May 2009 | |
  Hampstead Location within Greater London | |
| OS grid reference | TQ265855 |
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| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | NW3 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
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Hampstead (/ˈhæmpstɪd, -stɛd/) is an area in London, England, which lies four miles (six kilometres) northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from 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.[1]
Hampstead is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical, political, and literary associations. It contains a number of listed buildings,[2] such as Burgh House, Kenwood House, the Spaniard's Inn, and the Everyman cinema, one of the oldest in the world.[3] With some of the most expensive housing in London, 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, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais, Jim Henson, George Orwell, Harry Styles, Elizabeth Taylor. Hampstead has been home to more Prime Ministers, and contains more millionaires within its boundaries, than any other area of the United Kingdom.[4]
At the Stanfield Hall in Hampstead, the national Headquarters of the Rosicrucian Society of England were situated until 2022.[5]
- ^ "The London Plan March 2016" (PDF). london.gov.uk. p. 426.
- ^ "Listed Buildings in Hampstead Town Ward, Camden". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "The History of The Everyman Cinema Hampstead". The History of The Everyman Cinema Hampstead. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ Wade, David, "Whatever happened to Hampstead Man?". The Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2004 (retrieved 3 March 2016).
- ^ "What is the SRIA". www.sria-nwc.org.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2024.