A later painting, Keats, at Hampstead, when he first imagined his Ode to a Nightingale ( 1851 ), is also notable.

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.

About half of the eastern border, with Baltimore County, is formed by the North Branch of the Patapsco River and by Liberty Reservoir, though the northern half near Manchester and Hampstead is a land border.

The Eastman Dental Hospital is located on Gray ’ s Inn Road close to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital administered by the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust.

The area is adjacent to the Heath Extensions part of Hampstead Heath.

Henrietta Barnett School is located in nearby Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Golders Hill Park, adjoining the West Heath of Hampstead Heath, is a formal park.

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

Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter ’ s at Westminster ( AD 986 ) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to the 17th century.

Hampstead is part of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, formed at the 2010 general election.

The area is also home to the left-wing Labour magazine Tribune and the satirical magazine the Hampstead Village Voice.

The local paid-for newspaper is the Hampstead and Highgate Express, known locally as the " Ham & High ".

Hampstead is also covered by the borough-wide Camden New Journal.

As applied to an individual, the term " Hampstead Liberal " is not synonymous with " champagne socialist " but carries some of the same connotations.

To the north and east of Hampstead, and separating it from Highgate, is London's largest ancient parkland, Hampstead Heath, which includes the well-known and legally-protected view of the London skyline from Parliament Hill.

The largest employer in Hampstead is the Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, but many small businesses based in the area have international significance.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

In an attempt to compete with the nearby Hampstead Well, gardens and a ' great room ' were opened to promote the well, and its waters were promoted in journals of the day as cure for ' stomach ailments ':

The hill has a clear view of central London to the south-east, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead to the north.

He could afford a country house, Evergreen Villa, in Hampstead as well as a house in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

In February 2009 Coleman gave his comments on a proposed off-road light-rail line that would join ( again ) the two branches of the Northern Line in Barnet, as well as linking to Ealing Broadway, Wembley, Brent Cross and West Hampstead.

There are three railway stations named West Hampstead all within close proximity, as well as a number of other tube stations in the area.

As well as Hampstead Norreys itself, the parish includes the hamlets of Bothampstead, Eling and Wyld Court.

It is close to the amenities near Belsize Park tube station, as well as the shops of Belsize Village, South End Green and Hampstead.

During his appearance on the show on 14 June 2008, he told Brand that he had placed a bet on space ships appearing at the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in China, and invited him to take a one-third share in the bet, as well as to join him for some ' Boris Dancing ' ( named after mayor of London Boris Johnson ) on Hampstead Heath.

The core members of the group had lived close to each other as young actors in that area, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead ; the social focus for the group was really the Notting Hill area.

Penrose settled in Hampstead, where he was the centre of the community of avant-garde British artists and emigres who had settled there, and he opened the London Gallery on Cork Street, where he promoted the Surrealists as well as friends Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Naum Gabo.

The CCE & HR ( commonly known as the " Hampstead Tube ") was opened in 1907 and ran from Charing Cross ( known for many years as Strand ) via Euston and Camden Town ( where there was a junction ) to Golders Green and Highgate ( now known as Archway ).

On 13 September 1926, the extension of the Hampstead & Highgate line ( as the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line was then known ) was opened from Embankment to the existing City & South London Railway station Kennington with a new station at Waterloo.

Hampstead has a major bus terminus known as Hampstead Heath located in South End Green.

This should not be confused with the better known Jack Straw ’ s Castle, formerly a pub and now residential flats at Whitestone Ponds, Hampstead, which was named after the semi-legendary leader of the revolt.

The area retains many green expanses including the eastern part of Hampstead Heath, three ancient woods, Waterlow Park and the eastern-facing slopes known as Highgate bowl.

Kilburn grew up on the banks of a stream which has been known variously as Cuneburna, Kelebourne and Cyebourne, which flows from Hampstead down through Hyde Park and into the River Thames.

However, upon seeing Bonham drum for Tim Rose at a club in Hampstead, north London, in July 1968, Page and manager Peter Grant were instantly convinced that he was the perfect fit for the new project, first known as the New Yardbirds and later as Led Zeppelin.

It was also known as Hackney Academy or Hackney Theological Seminary, or Hackney Itineracy, but became best known as the Hackney College after 1871, a name which stuck even after its 1887 move to Finchley Road, Hampstead.

Hampstead Heath ( locally known as " the Heath ") is a large, ancient London park, covering.

This same land is later recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as held by the monastery of St. Peter's at Westminster Abbey, and by then is known as the " Manor of Hampstead ".< ref name = Manor >

* Ramapo, New York, formerly known as New Hempstead and then Hampstead

Doddridge's academy evolved into New College, Hampstead, later known as New College London, a centre for training Congregational and then United Reformed Church ministers.

* Ramapo, New York, formerly known as New Hempstead and then Hampstead

Mississippi College, originally known as Hampstead Academy, received its first charter, signed by Governor David Holmes, on January 24, 1826.

Originally known as " Highgate ", it was the original northern terminus of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and until 1940 was the northern terminus of the Northern Line.

Route of the River Westbourne ( highlighted in blue ) shown between West End ( now known as West Hampstead ) and the Thames on a 1790 map.