Pond Street, Hampstead

The street takes its name from an ancient pond at South End Green, a source of the River Fleet, and has been known by this name since at least 1678.

[2] At the western end is St Stephen's, a former church designed in Gothic Revival style by Samuel Sanders Teulon around 1870.

Many of the buildings in Pond Street are now listed, including a number of stucco designs from the 1860s.

[6] Notable residents have included the author Wilkie Collins and the zoologist Julian Huxley, while George Orwell worked in a bookshop which is commemorated with a plaque.

Rowland Hill, the founder of the penny post, has a blue plaque at the Royal Free Hospital.