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HAMPSTEAD - LoveToKnow Article on HAMPSTEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | 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. |
 | | Hampstead has numerous charitable institutions, amongst which are the North London consumptive hospital, the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill (1758), the general hospital and the north-western fever hospital. |
 | | The borough council consists of a mayor, 7 aldermen and 42 councillors. |
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