Hampstead

Hampstead (English pronunciation: /ˈhæmpstɪd, -stɛd/) (otherwide known as Hampstead village) is an area of London, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The name comes from the Anglo-Saxon words ham and stede, which means, and is a cognate of, the Modern English "homestead". Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter’s at Westminster (AD 986) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book (1086), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to...