Travel Reference
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KENWOOD, HAMPSTEAD HEATH
North London
Everything north of the Marylebone and Euston roads was, for the most
part, open countryside until the mid-nineteenth century, and is now largely
built up, right the way up to the “green belt” created in the immediate
postwar period to try and limit the continuing urban sprawl. North London
begins at the Regent's Canal, which traced the limit of the city's northern
outskirts when it was completed in 1820 and now passes through the heart
of Camden Town, with its famous market. Further north are a handful of
former satellite villages, now subsumed into the general mass of north
London, that run the gamut from wealthy Hampstead to gritty Hackney.
Most of north London is easily accessible by tube; in fact, it was the
expansion of the tube that encouraged the forward march of bricks and
mortar in the outer suburbs.
