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South Hampstead is an affluent part of the London Borough of Camden in inner north London. It is commonly defined as the area between West End Lane in the west, the Chiltern Main Line (south), Broadhurst Gardens north and north-west followed by a non-road line demarcating the south slopes of Hampstead village, west of Belsize Park, and north and west of the usually narrowly defined Swiss Cottage neighbourhood. It takes in some of Fitzjohns Avenue leading up to "the village" (of Hampstead), but the exact amount is an arbitrary measure. [n 1] The streets were laid out in the Victorian era. The area was not served by any railways until Loudoun Road station opened in 1879 on the street of that name. [1]

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Notable residents and associated organisation

South Hampstead High School, an independent girls' day school, is located at 3 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead. [7]

Nearby places

Transport

Railway stations

South Hampstead station on Loudoun Road. South Hampstead station.jpg
South Hampstead station on Loudoun Road.

Notes

  1. The blurred boundary is caused by the northern, most well-known part of Finchley Road, which has two stations named Finchley Road, often being considered its own neighbourhood or sometimes "district", and complex road patterns leading up the hill to Hampstead in the north-east; South Hampstead Junior School is almost next to the Finchley Road stations on Netherhall Gardens, and South Hampstead High School is on a minor intersection of Fitzjohns Avenue, creating the above definition

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