- Armed with a pre printed guide we did a 4-5 mile circular walk of Hampstead Heath.
- Hampstead Heath's remarkable range of natural habitats also includes wide expanses of grassland and ancient woodland.
- The Heath covers roughly 790 acres (about 360 hectares) and runs along a sandy ridge between Highgate to the east and Hampstead to the south-west.
- Hampstead Heath is genuinely one of the wonders of London – so close to the hustle and bustle of the city, whilst simultaneously seeming so far removed as to not...
- Hampstead Heath City of London, London, United Kingdom. 3,611 likes · 65 talking about this · 23,644 were here. Encapsulated piece of countryside in...
- Finally the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) purchased the original 220 acres of heath from his successor and the Hampstead Heath Act 1871 was passed.
- This six-mile Hampstead Heath circular walk takes you around the periphery of Hampstead Heath via many of the heath’s highlights along the way.
- Keats lived and practised medicine in Hampstead, and just south of the heath you’ll find Keats House, a memorial to the Romantic poet’s life and works.
- Hampstead Heath has great views of the London skyline, as well as lots of paths that take you through open fields, small forests and next to the various ponds.
- Then, when its springs were discovered in 1698, Hampstead Heath became a spa, and one of the more fashionable areas of London.