It has been grey and damp for the last couple of days but on Sunday the sun was shining brightly so I decided to walk down the the bottom of the Heath Extension – where I hadn’t been since early summer. This involves crossing the ‘north-south’ divide of Spaniards Road, then down through Sandy Heath …
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Hampstead Heath extension – Part 1….
The story of the extension starts with Wylde’s Farm (which still sort of exists and I will track down for another blog). To quote from Wikipedia: Built in about 1600, Wylde’s Farm was the farmhouse for one of two estates acquired by Eton College in 1449, soon after its foundation. The Eton College estate originated …