House with a blue door, Hampstead, London

A small village on the road out of London until the North London Railway came in 1870.

Hampstead attracted a large number of bohemian intellectuals to live there, particularly from the 1890s and the 1930s.

Many famous people were born or have lived in the village, including Elizabeth Taylor, Stephen Fry, Dirk Bogarde, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithfull, Gerry Anderson, Edward Elgar, Slash from Guns N' Roses, Sting, Enid Blyton, John Betjemen, Alan Ayckborn, Lord Byron, T S Eliot, Aldous Huxley, John Constable, Henry Moore, Lucien Freud, and Ramsay MacDonald.