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	Hampstead Garden Suburb
		Hampstead Garden Suburb is close to the facilities of Golders Green and Hampstead Village and within easy reach of the tube stations at East Finchley and Golders Green.
		Situated to the east of Finchley Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb was a utopian housing project begun in 1907 by Lady Henrietta Barnett.
		The Suburb, which is now run by a Trust, imposes strict regulations on the maintenance of the properties and takes much pride in conserving its leafy and picturesque environment.
	hgslondon.tripod.com (489 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hampstead Garden Suburb is an example of early 20th Century domestic architecture and town planning located in the London Borough of Barnet in North West London.
		There are two mixed state primary schools in the Suburb, Garden Suburb and Brookland.
		The Suburb has a large Jewish population (37.1% in the Garden Suburb electoral ward, according to the 2001 Census), many of whom attend the synagogue in Norrice Lea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hampstead_Garden_Suburb (404 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the 1930s the "Suburb" (as it is known by locals) expanded to the north of the A1.
		East finchley is a suburb of london, in the united kingdom....
		There are two mixed state primary schools[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] in the Suburb, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hampstead_garden_suburb.htm (1007 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb in North West London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As well as buying 80 acres of land to be added to the Hampstead Heath, she lead the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust to acquire 655 acres of land north of Golders Green, which at the time was a lonely crossroads with a farm-house surrounded by fields.
		The Barnett’s idea was to build a “garden suburb”, where each family would live in a spacious house surrounded by a plot of land for them to develop, and thus protect them from the temptations of drinking and gambling.
		Originally planned to be a sort of a housing estate for the industrial classes, Hampstead Garden Suburb turned out such a nice place to live that representatives of all classes of society came there.
	www.london-northwest.com /sites/HampGarSub.htm (336 words)

	World-famous suburb undergoes transformation \| 24dash.com - Communities
		"Hampstead Garden Suburb remains an important symbol of a philosophical movement which stretches from the redevelopment of Chicago in the 1870s to the creation of the English Garden Cities of Letchworth and Welwyn in the early 20th century and the New Towns of the post-war period.
		For many years the street signs around Hampstead Garden Suburb have been gradually deteriorating - many were cracked and beyond repair and some had gone missing altogether detracting from the character of the area.
		The restoration of cast- iron street signs is part of a wider initiative by Barnet Council, the Hampstead Garden Suburbs Trust and the Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association to upgrade and repair street signage throughout the Suburb.
	www.24dash.com /content/news/viewNews.php?navID=7&newsID=1557 (705 words)

	Benham & Reeves
		Hampstead Garden Suburb was the visionary idea of a well-known philanthropist, Dame Henrietta Barnet, who wanted to create a model environment at the start of the 20th century.
		Lutyens himself designed the Suburb’s Central Square which, as the name implies, was at the centre of the first great phase of development in the Edwardian years up to the First World War.
		After that, the ideal of a mixed community was diluted and the Suburb became a largely middle and upper middle class enclave, with subsequent building never quite as good as in the first phase.
	www.benhamandreeves.co.uk /surround_hgrdn.htm (712 words)

	Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement
		The Garden City as a new concept was obviously viewed with scepticism, and the directors could not be too limiting.
		Welwyn Garden City was started immediately after the First World War in the period when Lloyd George invented his slogan, "A fit country for heroes to live in" and the max.
		Welwyn Garden City was the first development to benefit from the 1919 Housing Act, and in 1921, Welwyn Rural District Council, later to be an U.D.C. started building schemes under the jurisdiction of De Soissons.
	www.rickmansworthherts.freeserve.co.uk /howard1.htm (3630 words)

	This Is Hertfordshire
		Hampstead Garden Suburb councillors are baffled by a residents' association's decision to field candidates against them in next May's council elections on an anti-controlled parking zone (CPZ) platform.
		At a Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents' Association (HGSRA) meeting two weeks ago, a motion was passed to approve three independent candidates who have not yet been chosen to stand against the current Conservative councillors.
		Gary Shaw, chairman of the association's roads and traffic committee, said that while some were in favour of the proposed CPZ for Temple Fortune and parts of Hampstead Garden Suburb, others feared it would give Barnet Council an excuse to impose restrictions across the ward.
	www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk /display.var.616130.0.0.php (342 words)

	Welwyn Garden City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Welwyn Garden City is a town (not a city) in Hertfordshire, England.
		Welwyn Garden City is also known as WGC or, somewhat incorrectly, Welwyn, although this can cause confusion with the village called Welwyn which lies a few miles to the northwest of WGC.
		Welwyn Garden City, as its name suggests, is a " garden city ", founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the 1920s following his previous experiments in Hampstead Garden Suburb and Letchworth Garden City.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Welwyn_Garden_City.html (1609 words)

	A brief history of Wavertree Garden Suburb (continued)
		His dream was of a series of free-standing Garden Cities - combining the benefits of town and country, but the disadvantages of neither - where the residents would have not only decent houses to live in but also recreational facilities and a choice of employers close at hand.
		One of the key figures in the Garden Suburb movement was Raymond Unwin, the town planner responsible for the layout of Letchworth in 1904, and Hampstead Garden Suburb (probably the best-known example in England) in 1906.
		No.13 Wavertree Nook Road was the very first house to be built in the new Garden Suburb, and under the bay window you can see the foundation stone laid on 20th July 1910 by the Marchioness of Salisbury.
	www.liverpool.ndo.co.uk /wgs/page6.html (580 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb Estate Agents : Goldschmidt & Howland
		"The Suburb," as it is called, is also known for its strict council regulations concerning building alterations, which serves as evidence of the community's desire to preserve the character of this interesting social experiment.
		Sir Edwin Luytens was one of the architects commissioned to design several structures, and he managed to successfully set the tone of the area with the Central Square, well -designed terraces of houses and flats on spacious, tree-lined streets with closes and cul-de-sacs.
		In the corner of the North Square is a Meeting House for the Society of Friends and in the South Square, opposite St Jude's Church, is a purpose built block of flats.
	www.g-h.co.uk /area.php?page=37 (670 words)

	The rise of the Garden Suburb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The imminent arrival of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in Golders Green with its station at North End precipitated Henrietta Barnett into a bid to protect the area adjacent to her home at Spaniards End from piecemeal development.
		The garden style of development, initiated by enlightened Quaker industrialists was already in vogue.
		The Garden Suburb Development Company was formed by the Trust to assist the design and let contracts for the construction of houses and other features.
	www.muswell-hill.com /muswell/history/riseofhgs.htm (787 words)

	Hampstead (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hampstead and Hampstead tube station (the deepest station in the London Underground network)
		West Hampstead tube station and West Hampstead railway station
		Hampstead, North Carolina; not to be confused with:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hampstead_(disambiguation) (114 words)

	Utopian London 1552-1945
		Proposed scheme to utilise the 10,000 acres of cultivable land said to be within a tram ride of the Bank of England as smallholdings.
		Garden Suburb development on the Gidea Hall and Balgores Estates.
		Lubetkin's block of flats called Highpoint 1 in north London, built in 1936, were described by Le Corbusier as 'a vertical garden city', residents having the use of a communal tea room, tennis courts, a swimming pool and a garden.
	www.utopia-britannica.org.uk /pages/LONDON.htm (2905 words)

	MyDesRes :: Private Sales and Lettings for London :: Not Estate Agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hampstead Garden Suburb, Golders Green and Totteridge are the most expensive areas, the latter boasting the largest properties, but practically no flats.
		The nearest tube for Hampstead Garden Suburb is East Finchley.
		Henrietta Barnett conceived the original idea for The Suburb: it was to be a pleasant suburban neighbourhood where rich and poor could live together, where both would have access to the leafy streets and woodland.
	www.mydesres.com /areainfo/Barnet.aspx (991 words)

	V & A \| International Arts & Crafts \| Buildings in London: Hampstead Garden Suburb
		Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded in 1907 as a model of community life.
		It was the idea of Henrietta Barnett, cosmetics heiress turned social worker, who wanted to provide a beautiful and healthy living place for all classes and show 'how thousands of people can live in helpful neighbourliness'.
		She also wanted to save Hampstead Heath and the surrounding area from the encroaching tube lines and terraced houses.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/1312_artsandcrafts/explore/buildings_in_london/hampstead_garden_suburb (99 words)

	Plan of Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1905
		Hampstead Garden Suburb, in North London, was founded in 1907.
		Gardens were separated by hedges rather than fences, and trees would line every street.
		This map was produced in 1905 during the initial planning stages of the Suburb.
	www.bl.uk /learning/artimages/mappingminds/wealth/gardens/garden.html (243 words)

	Suburb
		Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association AGM - 21 March 2005...
		suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a...
		SUBURB (High Voltage) is the latest rock band to hit the scene...
	www.pafund.com /Suburb.html (387 words)

	Search Results for "Hampstead"
		Within the borough, residential Hampstead is popular with writers and artists.
		...the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick development in Yorkshire, and Hampstead Garden near London.
		...In 1992 she retired from acting and was elected as a Labour member of Parliament from Hampstead; she was reelected in 1997.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Hampstead (181 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb
		Hampstead Garden Suburb is located in North West London, England, approximately 7 miles from the centre of London and was founded in 1907 by Dame Henrietta Barnett.
		It is internationally recognised as one of the finest examples of early twentieth century domestic architecture and town planning and is home to approximately 13,000 people.
		Garden Suburb Theatre presents Shakespeare’s wonderful play about magic and revenge, set in the idyllic surroundings of Little Oak Wood, Addison Way, NW11.
	www.hgs.org.uk (409 words)

	Street Management - Walk details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Buses: Barnet Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb and at frequent intervals along the route.
		There are a few steepish climbs at either end, elsewhere the path undulates and meanders gently through brookside open spaces and woodland strips that separate residential districts of North London.
		The finish is on Hampstead Heath near a bus route, but you can continue further south across the heath for a further 2km (1.25 miles) into cosmopolitan Hampstead village, with its huge choice of pubs, bistros and cafes.
	www.tfl.gov.uk /streets/walking/walkdetails.asp?id=39 (467 words)

	Property to buy in Hampstead Garden Suburb
		Arranged over two floors only, the property is in need of some updating and benefits from a superb rear garden backing on to allotments.
		The property is well maintained throughout consisting of two reception rooms, kitchen, three double bedrooms, a spacious family bathroom and a lovely rear garden.
		A charming 3 bedroom semi detached cottage situated on the north side of the Suburb within the Brookland school catchment area.Downstairs WC 120' Rear Garden Kitchen/Diner Close To Market Place Brookland School Catchment Highly Recommended...
	www.rightmove.co.uk /property-for-sale-in--hampstead-garden-suburb--north-west-london.rsp/svr/1012 (484 words)

	Barnet Online - Church Farmhouse Museum
		The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd was formed in 1906 to lay out as a “Garden Suburb” an estate of some 240 acres in the neighbourhood of Hampstead Heath.
		She was determined to build a suburb as unlike the depressing Victorian slums of the East End of London as possible.In 1908 some cottages were advertised for rent from 6/- (30p) per week, while grander houses with extensive gardens were rented at up to £400 per year.
		The exhibition is based largely on photographs, maps and plans from the Hampstead Garden Suburb Archive, along with other material lent by organisations such as the Hampstead Garden SuburbTrust and by Hampstead Garden Suburb residents.
	www.barnet.gov.uk /index/leisure-culture/museums-galleries/current-exhibitions.htm (471 words)

	Society \| Estate manager, Hampstead Garden Suburb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		You know the thing: neat gardens, gnomes, washing the car on a Sunday.
		People who glue giant gnomes to their roof perhaps, or tape inflatable spidermen to the side of the house.
		It's more likely to be things such as people who build a garden wall 20ft tall or invade a neighbour's boundary.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5037218-111938,00.html (190 words)

	Home - Brentham Garden Suburb
		Brentham Garden Suburb in Ealing, west London, is no ordinary group of 620 houses.
		The first garden suburb to be built on 'Co-partnership' principles and an inspiration for the later, larger and more famous Hampstead, it has made a mark on twentieth-century domestic architecture, town planning and social housing out of all proportion to its size.
		The suburb was designed to a plan by the leading garden city architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, with houses, mostly in the Arts and Crafts style, by George Lister Sutcliffe and Frederic Cavendish Pearson.
	www.brentham.com (127 words)

	News - Brentham Garden Suburb
		Exactly 100 years earlier, Dame Henrietta had cut the first sod on the site of what was later to become Hampstead Garden Suburb, and the event was graced all those years ago by visitors from Brentham who came to “braid the Maypole” and sing “May songs”.
		The Athens-based author of a book about the development of garden suburbs in Greece and Europe, inspired by a visit here last year, wants to write about Brentham and include photos from the Brentham book.A technical college in Vienna placed an order for the Brentham book and sent an employee to collect it.
		Brentham’s two garden groups meet from March to October — the afternoon group on the third Wednesday of each month at 2pm, and the evening group on the first Tuesday at 7.30pm.
	www.brentham.com /html/news.html (1094 words)

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