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Parliament Hill Lido, located in Hampstead Heath, north London, is next to Gospel Oak railway station. The lido, also known as Hampstead Heath Lido, is a public unheated open air swimming pool, open for 12 months a year. It first opened in 1938.
Hampstead Heath is an ancient heath in London, spanning 320 hectares (790 acres). [1] This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London , running from Hampstead to Highgate , which rests on a band of London Clay . [ 2 ]
The Corporation also runs the unheated Parliament Hill Lido, in Hampstead Heath which the London Residuary Body with the agreement of the London Boroughs gave into the safekeeping of the City, for the benefit of the public, in 1989.
In 1875 Hampstead Heath was acquired for the people by the Metropolitan Board of Works. [3] Thirteen years later Parliament Hill was purchased for the public for £300,000 and added to Hampstead Heath. Kite Flyer on Parliament Hill, St Michael's Highgate in the background (February 2008)
The article states that filming was done at “Hampstead Heath Lido”, where Smiley is shown swimming. Smiley is in fact shown swimming in the Men’s Bathing Pond, a completely different place on the Heath. The Lido (more properly called Parliament Hill Lido), may have been used for filming, but not for those scenes.
Notable examples in London are Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill, Parliament Hill Lido at Gospel Oak in Hampstead Heath and Tooting Bec Lido in South London. Examples beyond London include Jesus Green Swimming Pool in Cambridge, Sandford Parks Lido in Cheltenham, Ilkley Lido and Ingleton Lido further north in Yorkshire.
The history of Gospel Oak can be traced as far back as the history of Hampstead, which was documented in AD 986 by Ethelred the Unready to the Abbot of Westminster. [4] Situated as it is in the southern part of Hampstead Heath, the area was, in years past, referred to as nearby South End Green. When the now-lost great oak tree of Gospel Oak ...
The Heath and Hampstead Society took the engineering decisions of the City of London to judicial review in November 2014: the interpretation of the 1975 Reservoir Act was challenged and thereby the nature of the proposed engineering works to the dams. The case was heard by The Honourable Mrs Justice Lang (DBE) and a ruling, in favour of the ...