Hampstead Garden Suburb is a curious area – an exclusive enclave within the already exclusive Hampstead. A Dame Henrietta Barnett, a cosmetics heiress, as a sort of visionary model village, designed it at the beginning of the last century.
Lying at the north end of Hampstead Heath, the area still retains much of its original air today although few, if any, of the poorer people Dame Barnett envisaged living here would be able to afford it now. The Institute has plenty of courses to fill those empty days such as art, languages and pottery.
It isn't immediately accessible by public transport and there are no real shops to speak of, but its proximity to Hampstead and the Heath might make it an interesting detour if you don't mind braving the twitching curtains.
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