Fitzjohns Avenue

Located in the London Borough of Camden it runs northwards from College Crescent (near to Swiss Cottage tube station on the Finchley Road) to join and become Heath Street in Hampstead Village.

In 1869 the Maryon-Wilson family, lords of the manor of Hampstead, received legal permission to redevelop the area for housing to accommodate Victorian London's rapidly expanding population.

In 1875 the area was finally sold to a developer for £50,000[1] Fitzjohns Avenue took its name from an estate the Maryon-Wilson family owned in Essex.

Its early reputation for painters led George Bernard Shaw to have a character in his 1893 play Mrs Warren's Profession explain that she learned her art from "some artistic people in Fitzjohns Avenue".

[11] Others to have lived on the street include the soprano Elsie Suddaby, the novelists Rafael Sabatini and Stella Gibbons, the civil engineer James Mansergh and the artist Edwin Long.