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51°33′20″N0°11′40″W / 51.555556°N 0.194444°W / 51.555556; -0.194444 Coordinates: 51°33′20″N0°11′40″W / 51.555556°N 0.194444°W / 51.555556; -0.194444

Fortune Green is a small area in West Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.

Lying on the south-west side of the Finchley Road, Hampstead town council decided to build its overflow cemetery there in the 1840s. A guide to Hampstead Cemetery, with short biographies of selected grave occupants and maps of their location and illustrations of the more prominent monuments, was published in 2000. [1] [2]

It now lies in the London Borough of Camden as a ward. The ward has existed since the May 1978 local elections and was redrawn in May 2002. [3] [4] The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,740 and is associated closely with West Hampstead, evidenced in the joint Fortune Green & West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan adopted by Camden Council in September 2015. [5] [6]

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References

  1. Colloms, Marianne and Weindling, Dick (2000). The Good Grave Guide to Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green. Camden History Society, London.
  2. Camden History Society website
  3. London Borough Council Elections (2002) Archived August 22, 2013
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). data.london.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Fortune Green & West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan - Adopted by Camden Council in September 2015.
  6. Fortune Green & West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan - Adopted by Camden Council in September 2015