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Perched on a hill aboe Camden Town, Hampsteadvillage developed
into a fashionable spa in the eighteenth century, after a celebrated
physician declared the waters of its spring as being of great medicinal
alue. Its sloping site, which deterred Victorian property speculators
and put off the railway companies, saved much of the Georgian village
from destruction, and it's little altered to this day. Later, it became
one of the city's most celebrated literary quartiers and even now
it retains its reputation as a bolt hole of the high-profile
intelligentsia. You can get some idea of its tone from the fact that the
local Labor MP is currently the actress-turned-politician Glenda
Jackson.
The steeply inclined High Street, lined with trendy clothes shops and
arty cafés, flaunts the area's ever-increasing wealth without completely
losing its picturesqueness. There are several small house museums to
explore, but proximity to the Heath is the real joy of Hampstead, for
this mixture of woodland, smooth pasture and landscaped garden is quite
simply the most exhilarating patch of greenery in London
Tube: Hampstead.
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