Hampstead Square

Historically it was a garden square, featuring densely-packed buildings as opposed to the larger space-out houses on the edge of Hampstead Heath.

[2] Many of the houses date back to the early eighteenth century when the area was booming due to the nearby Hampstead Wells spa.

[3] It is marked on the 1762 map of Hampstead simply as The Square and its open space was used in the early nineteenth century by strolling players and the Victoria Tea Gardens.

[4] The construction of Christ Church in 1852 by the architect Samuel Daukes turned it from a traditional square shape into a polygon.

Notable residents have included the writer Wilkie Collins and the married artists John Copley and Ethel Léontine Gabain.