Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a 78 meter high hill on the north side of Regent's Park in London and is also the name for the surrounding neighborhoods.
geography
From the hill you have an uninterrupted view of central London to the southeast and to the north of Belsize Park and Hampstead Heath . Primrose Hill is part of the London borough of Camden .
history
Like Regent's Park, Primrose Hill was once part of King Henry VIII's hunting grounds . In 1842 a law of parliament protected the land as a public space.
Parts of the built-up area of Primrose Hill consist mainly of houses from the Victorian era, so-called terraces . Primrose Hill has always been one of the most elegant parts of the city in the urban belt that lies between central London and the suburbs and whose residents are known for being wealthy. Primrose Hill is an archetypal example of a successful London city-village, a London village , due to its location and the quality of its socio-historical development.
In October 1678, Primrose Hill was the site of the mysterious murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey . In 1792 the radical Unitarian, poet and antiquarian Iolo Morganwg ( Edward Williams ) organized the first meeting of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain here .
traffic
The Primrose Hill area is served by two lines of the London Underground : Belsize Park and Chalk Farm stations on the Northern Line and St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage stations on the Jubilee Line .
Known residents related to the neighborhood
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German philosopher, social theorist, historian, journalist
- Derek Jacobi (* 1938), English actor
- Jude Law (born 1972), actor
- Ewan McGregor (born 1971), Scottish actor
- Jonny Lee Miller (born 1972), actor
- Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American writer
- Martin Shaw (1875–1958), composer, especially of church music
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ W