Hampstead Village NW3
🏛️ History in Hampstead
Few London neighbourhoods carry as much history per square metre as Hampstead. Blue plaques outnumber lamp posts. John Keats wrote his Ode to a Nightingale here. Sigmund Freud spent his final year in exile here. Karl Marx walked on the Heath. Every Georgian doorstep has a story.
143 history listed in Hampstead
A Village of Blue Plaques
Hampstead has one of the highest concentrations of English Heritage blue plaques in London. Poets, painters, scientists, architects, politicians and revolutionaries all made their homes in these quiet streets. Church Row, Well Walk and Keats Grove are particularly rich hunting grounds for the historically curious.
Keats House & Freud Museum
Keats House on Keats Grove is where the Romantic poet John Keats wrote some of his most celebrated works, including Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the nightingale song he heard in the garden. The Freud Museum on Maresfield Gardens preserves the study in which Sigmund Freud spent the last year of his life after fleeing Nazi Vienna in 1938 — his couch and library remain exactly as he left them.
All History in Hampstead
Acland Burghley School
⭐ 3.5
Alexandra College
⭐ 5.0
All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak
⭐ 4.5
Auden Place Community Nursery
⭐ 5.0
Baitul Aman Mosque
⭐ 4.6
Belsize Square Synagogue
⭐ 4.7
Bright Horizons JW3 Finchley Road Day Nursery and Preschool
⭐ 5.0
Camden Centre for Learning – Special School
⭐ 5.0
Camden Town Methodist Church
⭐ 4.7
Cavendish School
⭐ 4.5
Chabad Camden Town
⭐ 5.0
Chalk Farm Baptist Church
⭐ 4.7
Chaston Nursery
⭐ 5.0
Christ Apostolic Church
⭐ 5.0
Christ Church Primary School
⭐ 2.5
Christ Church, Hampstead
⭐ 2.2
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill
⭐ 4.7
Devonshire House Nursery School and Middle School
⭐ 4.3
Dolphin Montessori School Within Tyndale Church
⭐ 5.0
Eleanor Palmer Primary School
⭐ 3.7
ESCP Business School
⭐ 4.5
Fitzjohn’s Primary School
⭐ 4.6
Fleet Primary School
⭐ 3.4
George Eliot Primary School
⭐ 4.6
Gloucester House School
⭐ 3.8
Gospel Oak Primary School
⭐ 3.8
Greek Orthodox Church of Ss Cosmas and Damian the Anargyre
⭐ 4.9
Hampstead Hill School
⭐ 3.9
Hampstead Parochial Church of England Primary School
⭐ 3.5
Hampstead School Of Art
⭐ 4.3
Harris Academy St John’s Wood
⭐ 3.0
Haverstock School
⭐ 2.6
Heath Street Baptist Church
⭐ 4.3
Heathside School Hampstead
⭐ 3.8
Hereward House School
⭐ 5.0
Highgate Road Chapel
⭐ 4.4
Holiday Academy day-camp with Forest School
⭐ 3.3
Holy Trinity & St Silas C of E Primary School
⭐ 5.0
Holy Trinity C Of E Primary School
⭐ 4.4
Holy Trinity Church
⭐ 5.0
Holy Trinity Church, Kentish Town
⭐ 4.9
Hope and Anchor Community Church
⭐ 4.3
Hope Chapel.
⭐ 4.6
Jummah Salah in Queen’s Crescent Community Association
⭐ 5.0
Kentish Town Congregational Church
⭐ 4.0
KidsArt!
⭐ 4.0
La Sainte Union Catholic School
⭐ 2.9
LaSWAP Sixth Form Consortium
⭐ 4.0
Le Jardin des Dyvrande Bilingual Nursery
⭐ 4.3
Learning Curve Group Hair & Beauty Academy Camden
⭐ 3.4
Lighthouse London
⭐ 4.6
Lithos Pre-school
⭐ 5.0
Little Garden The Kentish Town Day Nursery & Pre-School
⭐ 4.0
london academy
⭐ 4.7
London Hampstead Seventh-day Adventist Church
⭐ 4.7
London School of Mosaic
⭐ 4.9
London School of Trends
⭐ 3.0
London Sound Academy
⭐ 5.0
LSI College
⭐ 5.0
LSI London Hampstead
⭐ 4.8
Luther-Tyndale Memorial Church
⭐ 4.7
Lyndhurst House Preparatory School
⭐ 3.9
Montessori Garden Nursery School
⭐ 4.7
New End Primary School
⭐ 3.5
New Life Church North London
⭐ 4.8
North Bridge House – Nursery Hampstead
⭐ 5.0
North Bridge House – Prep School Regent’s Park
⭐ 3.4
North Bridge House – Senior Hampstead
⭐ 3.1
North London Wine School
⭐ 5.0
Octagon
⭐ 5.0
Our Lady of Hal R C Church
⭐ 4.5
Our Lady, Help of Christians Catholic Church
⭐ 4.5
Parliament Hill School
⭐ 3.5
Prayer Room/Jummah Salah on Lower Ground Floor
⭐ 5.0
Primrose Hill Primary School
⭐ 4.5
Puss In Boots
⭐ 4.7
Razzamataz Theatre Schools Hampstead
⭐ 5.0
Ready Steady Go
⭐ 5.0
Rhyl Community Primary School
⭐ 4.4
Rhyl Community Primary School
⭐ 4.4
Rosary Roman Catholic Primary School
⭐ 3.8
Rosslyn Hill Chapel
⭐ 4.6
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
⭐ 4.0
Royal Free Hospital Childrens School
⭐ 5.0
Royal Free Hospital School Of Medicine
⭐ 4.4
Saint Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral
⭐ 4.8
Saint Benet’s and All Saints’ Church, Kentish Town
⭐ 4.7
Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Hampstead
⭐ 4.6
Sarum Hall School
⭐ 3.7
SCL International College Camden Campus
⭐ 1.0
SCL International College Kentish Town Campus
⭐ 4.5
Sh. Abdirahman mosque
⭐ 4.6
South Hampstead High School
⭐ 3.9
South Hampstead United Synagogue
⭐ 4.2
Southbank International School Hampstead
⭐ 5.0
St Andrew’s URC Church
⭐ 4.6
St Anne’s Church, Highgate
⭐ 4.5
St Dominic’s Priory – The Rosary Shrine
⭐ 4.8
St John’s Downshire Hill
⭐ 4.7
St Johns Wood United Synagogue
⭐ 4.7
St Luke’s Church Kentish Town, North London
⭐ 4.6
St Luke’s Church of England School
⭐ 4.8
St Luke’s Hampstead Anglican Church
⭐ 4.8
St Margaret’s School
⭐ 4.0
St Mark’s Church, Regent Park
⭐ 4.4
St Mark’s Hall Nursery School
⭐ 5.0
St Martin’s Church, Gospel Oak
⭐ 4.7
St Mary Brookfield
⭐ 4.3
St Mary’s School Hampstead
⭐ 4.9
St Michael’s Church
⭐ 4.6
St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School
⭐ 3.0
St Paul’s CE Primary School
⭐ 4.3
St Peter’s Church
⭐ 4.6
St Saviour’s Church, Hampstead
⭐ 4.7
St Silas Church, Kentish Town
⭐ 4.7
St Stephen’s
⭐ 4.8
St Thomas More Church
⭐ 4.7
Stewart INternational School – La Petite Ecole Bilingue Kentish Town
⭐ 5.0
Swiss Cottage School, Development & Research Centre
⭐ 4.4
The Academy School
⭐ 3.9
The Caraf Centre
⭐ 4.4
The Church in Bassett Street
⭐ 4.8
The forest school way- forest school day camp for kids
⭐ 5.0
The Hall School
⭐ 5.0
The Hampstead Activity Nursery
⭐ 5.0
The Hindu Centre
⭐ 4.7
The North London Forest School Nursery
⭐ 4.0
The Open University in London
⭐ 3.8
The UCL Academy
⭐ 2.6
The University Of The Third Age In London
⭐ 4.5
The Village Prep School
⭐ 5.0
The Village Shul
⭐ 4.5
Torriano Primary School
⭐ 3.7
Trevor Roberts School
⭐ 5.0
Trinity United Reformed Church
⭐ 3.4
Unity Welfare Education Centre and Mosque
⭐ 4.2
University College School Junior Branch
⭐ 3.3
University College School Pre-Prep
⭐ 5.0
University College School Senior School
⭐ 4.5
William Ellis School
⭐ 3.9
Woodentots Forest School
⭐ 5.0
Woodentots Nature Nursery
⭐ 5.0
倫敦新生命靈糧堂 Bread of life Christian church in north London
⭐ 5.0
Frequently Asked Questions
What famous people lived in Hampstead?+
Hampstead's famous residents include John Keats, Sigmund Freud, John Constable, George Romney, Karl Marx (who visited regularly), John le Carré, Peter O'Toole, Boy George and many more. Blue plaques mark many of their former homes.
Is Keats House open to visitors?+
Yes — Keats House on Keats Grove is open to the public. It is a museum preserving the house where Keats lived from 1818 to 1820. An entry fee applies; check the Keats House website for current opening times.
Can I visit the Freud Museum in Hampstead?+
Yes — the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens is open Wednesday to Sunday. It preserves Sigmund Freud's study with his original consulting couch, books and antiquities collection. An entry fee applies.