Tour of Belsize Park, London, NW3
A walking tour through Belsize Park NW3 in North West London.
Belsize comes from the French Bel Assis meaning beautifully situated - and many regions of Belsize Park are indeed quite beautiful, making this a fitting place name for this leafy northwestern suburb of London!
In this video we'll be seeing:
- Belsize Park station (Northern line)
- Haverstock Hill (including the area near Belsize Park underground station with all the high street shops like Thornton's Budgens, Revital, Cook, The Everyman Cinema, Daniel Adams, the Euphorium Bakery)
- Wac Arts centre (in the Old Town Hall)
- Belsize Avenue
- Belsize Terrace
- Belsize Village (including a quick sweeping glace at the Crescent Fruiterers, Roni's bagel shop and cafe, The Late Late Store, Belsize Village delicatessen, Holistic Hair and Beauty, the Village pharmacy & Artigiano)
- Belsize Park (the road) showing lots of pretty Belsize Park houses & gorgeous property in the area
- St Peter's Church
- Belsize Square
- Belsize Square Synagogue
- Lambolle Road
- Lancaster Drive
- Lancaster Grove
- The Old Belsize Fire Station
- Eton Avenue
- England's Lane (with shops like The Washington pub, Starbucks, Harvey Jones, The Black Truffle Delicatessen and Coffeehouse, Living in Space & Chamomile, ecora, Fern Skin Clinic, and the freshly white painted apartment building of Stanbury Court)
- Primrose Gardens
- Antrim Road
- Belsize Community Library
- Steele's village on Haverstock Hill (including the Sir Richard Steele Pub, The Load of Hay Tavern and the other shops in this section of Haverstock Hill)
- Parkhill Road
- St Dominic's Priory
- Our Lady of the Roasry and St Dominic Roman Catholic Church
- Garnett Road
- Isokon Buliding (and museum) on Lawn Road where Agatha Christie once lived in the 1930s and where visitors to its bar (the Isobar) included Henry Moore
- And back to Belsize Park Tube station
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4k Hampstead walking via Belsize Park, Primrose Hill, Beatles crossing London Summer - Charity shops
This walk can be covered in about 2 hours or more, at Streetwise Walks we include places of interest and shops where you can save money - This walk has some great charity shops to browse on your way around for a few bargains. The walk goes from West Hampstead, through Hampstead Village, down to Belsize Park, onto Primrose Hill, then St Johns Wood High Street, Abbey Road and across the famous Beatles crossing then back to West Hampstead to finish the loop. Some lense flaring from the sun as it was such a bright, sunny day in London.
Recorded - June 15th 2022, midday. Weather Conditions & Temperature - dry & sunny, 26°C/79°F
For enquiries please email - StreetwiseWalks@gmail.com
Places of interest:
0:00 West Hampstead Station - the starting point
3:10 West Hampstead Charity Shops - Scope, All Aboard, Cancer Research, Childrens Society and Oxfam.
5:20 West End Lane
7:45 Crossing The Finchly road to Frognal Lane
13:34 Church Row
14:32 St John-at-Hampstead Church and Graveyard
16:16 Grave of John Constable (English Painter - The Hay Wain)
19:00 Perrin's Court
20:15 Cancer Research Shop Hampstead
21:01 Oxfam Shop Hampstead
21:22 Hampstead High Street
22:35 George Michael crashed his Range Rover into the Snappy Snaps here
27:06 Air Recording Studios (Lyndhurst Hall, Hampstead). Air was founded in London in 1965 by Beatles record producer Sir George Martin.
31:27 Farah Charity Shop Belzise Park
32:07 Belsize Park Station
32:40 Marie Curie Charity Shop Belzise Park (behind The lorry)
35:02 Belsize Grove
37:35 Belsize Park Gardens
40:42 Primrose Hill Road
47:40 The view from Primrose Hill - what a view!
53:47 St Edmund's Terrace
1:01:21 RAK Recording Studio's, used by all the big 80's, 90's, 00's musical acts
1:03:43 St John's Wood High Street
1:04:24 Elizabeth Hospice and Shelter Boutique Charity Shops
1:05:18 Cancer Research and Oxfam Charity Shops
1:08:15 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
1:10:04 Ferrari in front of St Johns Wood Station
1:13:15 Blue Plaque and former home of Sir Thomas Beecham, an English conductor and impresario.
1:14:28 Beatles Crossing Abbey Road
1:14:55 Abbey Road Studios
1:26:51Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, designed in a brutalist style in 1968 by Neave Brown.
1:27:35 Trainline to Euston
1:32:11 Back walking on West End Lane
1:42:00 Finish Line, back at West Hampstead Station.
Distance covered - 5.2 miles.
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Places to see in ( London - UK ) Regent's Park
Places to see in ( London - UK ) Regent's Park
Regent's Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. Regent's Park lies within north-west London, partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden. contains Regent's University London and the London Zoo. The Regent's Park is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Regent's Park has an outer ring road called the Outer Circle (4.45 km) and an inner ring road called the Inner Circle (1 km), which surrounds the most carefully tended section of the park, Queen Mary's Gardens. Apart from two link roads between these two, the park is reserved for pedestrians. The south, east and most of the west side of the park are lined with elegant white stucco terraces of houses designed by John Nash and Decimus Burton. Running through the northern end of the park is Regent's Canal, which connects the Grand Union Canal to the former London docks.
Regent's Park is mainly open parkland with a wide range of facilities and amenities, including gardens; a lake with a heronry, waterfowl and a boating area; sports pitches; and children's playgrounds. The northern side of Regent's Park is the home of London Zoo and the headquarters of the Zoological Society of London. There are several public gardens with flowers and specimen plants, including Queen Mary's Gardens in the Inner Circle, in which the Open Air Theatre is located; the formal Italian Gardens and adjacent informal English Gardens in the south-east corner of the park; and the gardens of St John's Lodge. Winfield House, the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, stands in private grounds in the western section of the park. Nearby is the domed London Central Mosque, better known as Regent's Park mosque, a highly visible landmark.
Located to the south of the Inner Circle is Regent's University London, home of the European Business School London, Regent's American College London (RACL) and Webster Graduate School among others. On the northern side of Regent's Park is Primrose Hill, another open space, which with a height of 256 feet (78 m) has a clear view of central London to the south-east, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead to the north. Primrose Hill is also the name given to the immediately surrounding district.
he public areas of Regent's Park are managed by The Royal Parks, a government agency. The Crown Estate Paving Commission is responsible for managing certain aspects of the built environment of Regent's Park. The park lies within the boundaries of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden, but those authorities have only peripheral input to the management of the park. The Crown Estate owns the freehold of Regent's Park.
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Kenwood House & park: Places to Visit in London, Hampstead
Kenwood House is a free London attraction located in Hampstead, near Hampstead Heath in North London, NW3 7JR. The area was once historically known as Caen Wood, which became Caenwood and then Kenwood.
This house was made famous by the movie Belle (2013) which is based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a daughter of a noble Englishman and a woman who was a slave in the West Indies. Dido was raised by her great uncle who lived in Kenwood, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield in the late 1700s. She was brought up alongside the Earl's other niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray.
I hope you enjoy this walk / walking tour we took of the area that may give you an idea for places to visit in London for free.
If you're looking for cheap days out in London, visiting Kenwood House may be a good option.
The mansion is open every day between 10am and 5pm; entrance is free; and inside is a collection of paintings including some pretty well-known classical pieces by famous artists like Turner, Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Vermeer.
The house also has an attached cafeteria: the Brewhouse Cafe which I've also shown in this video.
The house is attractive from the outside too and was once featured in the film Notting Hill with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant (where it was used as a movie set for a historical period drama Julia Roberts' character was acting in).
The house and grounds are also a popular choice as a venue for weddings and they do hire it out for evening events. Every so often the grounds are also used for hosting concerts at Kenwood, especially in the summer.
Kenwood also has some pretty grounds that connect into Hampstead Heath, one of the more famous parks in London. The grounds around Kenwood house include highlights like:
- Wood Pond, a pond the size of a small lake with it's many swimming inhabitants including ducks (if you're lucky you may see baby ducklings too), water birds, and even Kingfishers - we saw one although I wasn't quick enough to capture it on camera. There's a great view of this pond from Stone Bridge.
- View of the London city skyline, from where the pagoda used to be, up near Kitchen Gardens, just north east of Kenwood House. From here you can see the Shard, the Gherkin, the BT Tower and even the London Eye Wheel.
- Wildlife: We saw quite a few different animals on our 2 hour walk through the park: we saw a bunny rabbit, a rat, a bright blue kingfisher, fish in the Thousand Pound Pond, a European green woodpecker, a squirrel and plenty of other more common birds too like ducks, pigeons and magpies.
- Wild nature & meadow land: There are a few corners of Kenwood that are more wild, a little like the Heath. If you like the wild look, you may enjoy this. At golden hour with the sun setting I thought it looked really cool. There are also some wild blackberries growing around the park that you can pick and eat (but this is probably best to do only if you've very, very confident with fruit identification).
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Music: Daily Beetle by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com