Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London.

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

The film was shot mainly in London and the Home Counties, including Hampstead, Greenwich Hospital, Betchworth in Surrey, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, St Bartholomew-the-Great ( wedding # 4 ) and West Thurrock in Essex.

It attempted to depict the totality of the mid-Victorian social experience in a single image, depicting ' navvies ' digging up a road, Heath Street in Hampstead, London, and disrupting the old social hierarchies as they did so.

* 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

Sutch was born at New End Hospital, Hampstead, northwest London.

* 1882: James Atkinson of Hampstead, London, England invented the Atkinson cycle engine.

* March 8 – A second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate.

* 320 hectares — Hampstead Heath in London

In August 1900, Yerkes decided to become involved in the development of the London Underground railway system after riding along the route of one proposed line and surveying the City of London from the summit of Hampstead Heath.

He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

moved within London, away from Holland Park very near Ezra Pound and Dorothy, to Hampstead, close to D. H. Lawrence and Frieda.

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand ( sometimes tens of thousands ), Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the East Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as Hampstead Village in the London conurbation.

Other villages have grown and merged and often form hubs within the general mass of suburbia — such as Hampstead, London and Didsbury in Manchester.

* Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England

After leaving Russia, Pavlova moved to London, England, settling, in 1912, at the Ivy House on North End Road, Golders Green, north of Hampstead Heath, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Newman ) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.

His commissions were of a varied nature from private houses to two churches for the new Hampstead Garden Suburb in London to Julius Drewe's Castle Drogo near Drewsteignton in Devon and on to his contributions to India's new imperial capital, New Delhi, ( where he worked as chief architect with Herbert Baker and others ).

Plans were put forward in 1974 and again in 2004 for a West Hampstead interchange, to connect the three West Hampstead stations in one complex, but plans were put on hold in 2007 owing to uncertainty over the North London Line rail franchise.

: See City and South London Railway and Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway for detailed histories of these companies

The core of the Northern line evolved from two railway companies: the City & South London Railway ( C & SLR ) and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway ( CCE & HR ).

On 1 July 1910, the GNP & BR and the other UERL-owned tube railways ( the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ) were merged, by private Act of Parliament, to become the London Electric Railway Company.

Hampstead ( or ), commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an affluent area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross.

The town would be incorporated in 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it after Hampstead, England, the residence of William Pitt, a close friend.

Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, England on 22 November 1917.

In England, Moholy-Nagy formed part of the circle of émigré artists and intellectuals who based themselves in Hampstead.

*** Decca Studios, a recording facility in West Hampstead, England

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Hampstead, England

The River Westbourne is a river in London, England which flows from Whitestone Pond on Hampstead Heath down through Hyde Park to Sloane Square and then into the River Thames at Chelsea.

Neill worked with Homer Lane, a US educator then living in England and founder of the Little Commonwealth school in Dorset, and later at King Alfred School in Hampstead, a school founded by a group and parents in 1898 and led by John Russell from 1901 to 1920.

Within a few weeks, the group was taken to England and into the Decca's recording studio in West Hampstead for their first recording session.

University College School, generally known as UCS, is an Independent school charity situated in Hampstead, north west London, England.

On his return to England in 1872, he commissioned architect Basil Champneys to design a new family home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, which was named " Oak Tree House "-in 1888, William Gladstone himself was a visitor.

While in England she attended South Hampstead High School.

West Hampstead interchange is a proposal by Chiltern Railways to connect three existing railway stations and two lines now without platforms, on West End Lane in West Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden in London, England.

Christopher Strachey was born on 16 November 1916 to Oliver Strachey and Rachel ( Ray ) Costelloe in Hampstead, England.

An acclaimed stage adaptation of the novel by the Tamasha Theatre Company was produced at the Hampstead Theatre in London, England in 2006 and later revived in 2007.

He returned to England in September 1882, settling in Hampstead, where he died.

* Southbank International School, a selective, mixed independent school located in the City of Westminster, Kensington and Hampstead, London, England

West Hampstead is an area in north-west London, England, situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east, Swiss Cottage to the east, South Hampstead to the south, Kilburn to the south-west and Cricklewood to the north-west.

To reduce further the flow of goods from England, the Company's local officials asked that its London authorities refrain from forwarding any more trade goods to these men.

Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

Thames and Hudson, London, England, 1997.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

* 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

It seems that Pope Gregory, ignorant of recent developments in the former Roman province, including the spread of the Pelagian heresy, had intended the new archiepiscopal sees for England to be established in London and York.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

King John of England gave the Abbey permission to buy and sell goods anywhere in England ( except London ) toll-free.

Having held a prebend at Holborn ( prior to 1229 ) and a canonry of St. Paul ’ s in London ( 1226-1229 ), He visited England in 1230 and received a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield, his native diocese.

London 6: Westminster ( from the Buildings of England series ).

Barges towed by a tugboat on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.