Gospel Oak

Gospel Oak is an inner urban area of north London in the London Borough of Camden below Hampstead Heath. It is bordered by the more affluent areas of Belsize Park to the west, Kentish Town to the south, eastern Hampstead to the north and Dartmouth Park and Tufnell Park to the east. It has a large amount of social housing, in particular many high-rise and tower block estates in the south of Mansfield Road, and housing in the area is fairly cheap in comparison with surrounding areas such as Hampstead and Chalk Farm. The name derives from an oak tree, under which parishioners gathered to hear an annual gospel reading when the area was still rural. Lords Mansfield, Southampton and Lisburne were the local landowners when development began in...