Frognal

Frognal is an affluent area of Hampstead, North West London in the London Borough of Camden. Frognal is also the name of the major road in the area; the upper part of which (north of Church Row) forms the western edge of Hampstead Village. The first reference to Frognal is as a tenement in the 15th century, probably on the site of Frognal House. By the seventeenth century it was a small settlement. By the 15th century it was joined into London, and infill continued in the twentieth century. William Page, historian and general editor of the Victoria County History, lived at Frognal Cottage (now 102 Frognal) from 1906 until 1922. The Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell lived here and ran a salon of influence, lived at no. 10 Frognal in the...