Sweet Hampstead and Its AssociationsWhite, Caroline A.
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Sweet Hampstead and Its Associations
White, Caroline A.
Hampstead (London, England) -- History
The following are the places named in his report: Church Street,
Hampstead Hill, the Lower Flask Walk, New End, the Well Walk and
thereabouts, the Square, part of the Heath, the Terrace, Nag’s Head side,
Frognal, the Heath, and North End, the whole of which produced at that
time £21,078, but might, according to Mr. Abrahams’ rating, produce above
a fourth more, or £26,788, and reduce the poor rate by 1s. 2d. in the
pound. Amongst the land-owners mentioned at this period are the names
of Neave, Todd, Milligen, Holford, Hoare, Lord Mansfield; Everett (late
Perceval), Belsize House, Haverstock Hill; Lady Watson, Well Park—a list
not very different from Carey’s notes of the inhabitants a twelvemonth
later, in the fifth edition of his ‘Book of the Road,’ 1812.[306] He is
describing the Barnet road, which led up to and skirted Hampstead Heath:
‘On the left of the three-mile stone from St. Giles’s Pound, Pryor, Esq.’
(a name retained in the ‘Pryors,’ the present home of Walter Field,
Esq.), ‘whose family have been for some time resident at Hampstead.’ ‘A
little further on Belsize House, William Everett, Esq., and C. Todd,
Esq., nearly opposite to which is T. Cartright, Esq. Farther on the left
Roberts, Esq., and Coke, Esq. An eighth of a mile on the left, Rosslyn
House, Mrs. Milligen. On the top of Red Lion Hill, to the right, is T.
Gardner, Esq.; opposite is Pilgrim, Esq., adjoining to which is Mrs. Key.
On the entrance to the Heath, T. Sheppard, Esq., M.P. for Frome’ (who
resided in Steevens’ old house, now the home of the Misses Lister); and
‘across the Heath, S. Hoare, Esq., and a distant view of Caen Wood, with
the seats of Charles Bosanquet, Esq., and Lord Erskine.’
He does not mention Edward Coxe, the poet, who was their neighbour the
preceding year. ‘On the right is Caen Wood, Earl of Mansfield, and near
it Fitzroy Farm, Lord Southampton. Between the Castle (Jack Straw’s) and
North End, on the left, Kerney, Esq.; adjoining Ware, Esq., and opposite
S. Hoare junior, Esq., Hill House, and James Kesteven, Esq. On the right
Robert Ward, Esq., and opposite John Thompson, Esq., The Priory; and
beyond the Hoop on Golder’s Green are seats of Henry Woodthorpe, Esq.,
Beck, Esq., and Amand, Esq.’
Abrahams tells us that in 1811 Church Street (as he calls it) had 25
residences; Flask Walk, 58; New End, 59; the Well Walk and thereabouts,
39; the Square, 20; part of the Heath, 20; the Terrace, 58; Nag’s Head
side, 74; the Heath and North End, 38; Heath Street is not mentioned.
In this year it is stated in the _Lady’s Magazine_:
‘We hear that it is in contemplation to form a new Ranelagh and Vauxhall
near Chalk Farm, and a contract has been entered into for forty acres of
land to be appropriated to that purpose.’
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