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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 Pond no. 1, Southernmost western pond on the Heath. The Hampstead Ponds consist of three ponds on the Heath's southwest corner, towards South End Green. Hampstead Heath mixed bathing pond. Hampstead Pond no. 3 is the mixed bathing pond, where both sexes may swim (angling prohibited).
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 ]
Archeological findings from Hampstead Heath, including Mesolithic flint tools, pits, postholes, and burnt stones, indicate a hunter-gatherer community around 7000 BCE. . Objects like cinerary urns and grave goods discovered near Well Walk, dating back to 70–120 CE, suggest the possibility of a Roman settlement or road in the vi
Gospel Oak is an area of north west London in the London Borough of Camden at the very south of Hampstead Heath.The neighbourhood is positioned between Hampstead to the north-west, Dartmouth Park to the north-east, Kentish Town to the south-east, and Belsize Park to the south-west.
Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead is an 1822 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It shows a view across Hampstead Heath along Spaniards Road , a route to Highgate . The building on the left is the Spaniards Inn from which the road takes its name. [ 3 ]
Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow is an 1836 landscape painting by the English artist John Constable. [1] It depicts a scene from Branch Hill in Hampstead overlooking Hampstead Heath . While Constable had previously painted several similar views this work, painted near the end of his career, is notable for the addition of a windmill and a rainbow ...
North End is located on the northern edge of Hampstead, just south of Golders Green. For much of its existence it was a rural hamlet but is now part of suburban London. Hampstead Heath lies both east and west of the settlement, while Hampstead Garden Suburb is to its northeast connected by Hampstead Way .