Place Name Takes its name from Chiswick Grove, which was first mentioned sometime around 1210 as Grava, from the Old…
Place Name Directional as it leads to Hampstead. A continuation of Tottenham Court Road his is an ancient – and…
Place Name Descriptive, this was a small estate originally owned by George Crispin which was developed by 1873. Most of…
Place Name This is thought to be the oldest inhabited part of Hampstead town, on the southern slopes of the…
Place Name Laid out over a former building contractor’s yard. It leads to a three-storey purpose-built gated office development that…
Place Name Directional, linking Hampstead with Hampstead Garden Suburb up until it was developed in the first decades of the…
Place Name Descriptive. Described in 1725 as having been, 60 years previously, a “high hill and a sandpit so that…
Place Name Originally called Caen Wood Lane. This was an early medieval track dividing Hampstead Manor from the Bishop of…
Place Name Originally The Grove. This road takes its name from the small woodland, described in the manorial rolls for…
Place Name Much redeveloped. Today Leigh Hunt Street is a pathway through the Mint Street Park. James Henry Leigh Hunt…