Well Walk

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The Well Walk (dt. Brunnenweg ) is one of the most historic streets in the London district of Hampstead , District Camden . Because of the Chalybeate Well located on the road, the Well Walk named after him is considered the center of the former health resort of Hampstead. The water extracted from the well contains a high proportion of iron and was considered beneficial to health when it was discovered in the middle of the 17th century. The street has always been a coveted address, where the poet John Keats , the painter John Constable and the actor Jeremy Irons resided.

course

The road runs between New End Square and Willow Road in the southwest and East Heath Road in the east. It only crosses Christchurch Hill and also has a direct connection to Gainsborough Gardens.

history

The Pub The Wells Tavern is located at the number 30 of the Well Walk in a Grade II listed house .

In the 17th century, the land and water rights were owned by the Gainsborough family, who used the proceeds of their water sales to help the poor in the Hampstead community.

In the 18th century, a red brick building was erected on the opposite side of the fountain, known as the Weatherhouse Hall . It had a small pumping station and a large hall in which the spa guests could relax during the day and concerts or dance events took place in the evening. Fanny Burney and Mark Akenside , among others, frequented the house . It is now privately owned.

Known residents

In the 1970s, the artist Barbara Jones, who died in 1978, lived in house number 2.

During the First World War, the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm lived temporarily at number 12. As early as 1909, the Scottish author and women's rights activist Marie Stopes had moved into the neighboring house at number 14.

The poet John Masefield lived under number 13 from 1914 to 1916 and the writer Henry Myers Hyndman died in 1921 .

Actress Fay Compton lived at number 22 and her colleague Jeremy Irons and his wife Sinéad Cusack lived at number 26. Writer and journalist John Boynton Priestley lived at number 27.

House number 32 was inhabited by journalist Henry Noel Brailsford before the First World War . During the war it belonged to the writers Ernest and Dollie Radford before the actor Leslie Banks moved into the property in the 1930s . Punch publisher Eduard George Knox lived at the neighboring number 34 from 1922 to 1945 .

One of the first residents of house number 40 was the painter John Constable , who lived there between 1827 and 1834. Around one hundred years later, the writer Thomas Sturge Moore lived in the house in the 1930s .

In April 1817 the poet John Keats moved into house number 46 with his brothers George and Tom.

The architect Ewan Christian built house number 50 in 1881, which he then moved into himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ed Cumming ( The Telegraph ): The first home of John Keats (English; article from October 21, 2011)

literature

Web links

  • hampsteadheath.net: Well Walk (accessed January 19, 2016)

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 32.6 "  N , 0 ° 10 ′ 24.5"  W.