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| | HAMPSTEAD - LoveToKnow Article on HAMPSTEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | The Edgware Road bounds Hampstead on the west; and the borough is intersected, parallel to this thoroughfare, by Finchley Road, and by Haverstock Hill, which, continued under the names of Rosslyn Hill, High Street, Heath Street, and North End, crosses the Heath for which Hampstead is chiefly celebrated. |
 | | The Heath is continued eastward in Parliament Hill (borough of St Pancras), acquired for the public in 1890; and westward outside the county boundary in Golders Hill, owned by Sir Spenser Wells, Bart., until 1898. |
 | | The borough council consists of a mayor, 7 aldermen and 42 councillors. |
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