Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath is an ancient heath in London, spanning 320 hectares. This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London, running from Hampstead to Highgate, which rests on a band of London Clay. The heath is rambling and hilly, embracing ponds, recent and ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, and a training track, and it adjoins the former stately home of Kenwood House and its estate. The south-east part of the heath is Parliament Hill, from which the view over London is protected by law.

Hampstead Heath (painting)

Hampstead Heath is an 1820 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable. It depicts a view across Hampstead Heath in Middlesex, allowing the artist to illustrate the skies that fascinated him. In 1819 Constable moved to Hampstead, then located to the north of London, to help with the health of his wife Maria. Hampstead and its surroundings became a popular subject in his art. One of his earliest finished pictures from his spell as Hampstead, it shows a view towards Harrow from Whitestone Pond. A painting of the same size but facing in the opposite direction is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The painting is today in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1948.

Hampstead

Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsize Park to the south and is surrounded from the northeast by Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate.

Hampstead Heath

Proper noun

1. A large park or open space located mainly in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England .

Noun

1. teeth.