22-498: Hampstead Cemetery is a historic cemetery in West Hampstead , London , located at the upper extremity of the NW6 district. Despite the name, the cemetery is three-quarters of a mile from Hampstead , and bears a different postcode. It is jointly managed by Islington and Camden Cemetery Service and opens seven days a week, with closing times varying throughout the year. Hampstead Cemetery
44-545: A chisel thrown by a member of a crowd he was preaching to (the man was charged with manslaughter but later acquitted). The following epitaph is carved on the tomb of Charles Cowper Ross, "a man of the theatre": What will be said, When I am dead, Of what I used to do? They liked my smile? I failed with style? Or, more than likely, "Who?" The cemetery has a large number of mature ash trees. Other trees include yew, sycamore, Norway maple, silver birch, Lombardy poplar, purple cherry-plum, willow and Swedish whitebeam. There
66-478: A few months later. It was then moved to East Finchley Cemetery but was once more stolen from a storage area in autumn 2006. It has not been recovered. The cemetery contains more than one grave with humorous or bizarre inscriptions. On the main avenue of the eastern section can be seen the grave of John Kensit (died 1902), a religious protester who was "struck down by the missile of an assassin in Birkenhead ", actually
88-594: A number of other tube stations in the area. Numerous bus routes pass through the district. There are four English Heritage blue plaques in West Hampstead commemorating historic personalities that have lived there. The plaques mark the residences of painter David Bomberg at 10 Fordwych Road, conductor Sir Adrian Boult at 78 Marlborough Mansions on Cannon Hill, newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe at 31 Pandora Road, and ophthalmologist Dame Ida Mann at 13 Minster Road. Jay A jay
110-523: A person who chatters impertinently. The term jaywalking was coined in the first decade of the 1900s to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard. The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established. In January 2014, Canadian author Robert Joseph Greene embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have
132-577: Is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family , Corvidae . The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the East Asian blue and green magpies , whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either. The Eurasian jay distributes oak acorns, contributing to
154-416: Is a wildlife area in the north part of the eastern half of the cemetery. This has been planted with trees, shrubs and wild flowers especially attractive to wildlife, such as field maple, hazel, oak, oxeye daisy, common knapweed and bird's-foot-trefoil. This is where most of the site's butterflies are to be found, including small white, speckled wood, holly blue, meadow brown and small copper. Birds recorded in
176-453: Is also an entry lodge made of Kentish Rag and Bath stone. The Heritage Lottery Fund has funded restoration work on the buildings. A large number of Celtic crosses can be found in the area to the southwest of the chapel, marking the presence of several Scottish families. The northeastern corner has some notable examples of modern and Art Deco stonemasonry, in particular the Bianchi monument and
198-472: Is an area for cremated remains to the north of the cemetery, by the Fortune Green Road exit. The cemetery has a pair of Gothic style mortuary chapels, both of which are Grade II listed buildings . The southern chapel was originally Anglican , and the northern non-conformist ; they share a common porte-cochère . Currently, only the southern chapel is in use as an inter-faith place of worship. There
220-405: Is because the lane used to form the boundary between a number of different estates. By the early 17th century several houses were present, and by the middle of that century London merchants were building larger houses in the area. By 1800 West End was a hamlet of two to three dozen houses and cottages located in parkland, mostly on the west side of West End Lane and Fortune Green Lane, and north of
242-586: Is situated on Fortune Green Road and is bordered on the northern side by the sports ground of University College School . A public footpath running from Hocroft Road to Fortune Green runs through the cemetery, effectively splitting it in two. Hampstead Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of London and opened in November 1876. The entire site covers 26 acres (0.11 km), and an estimated 60,000 people are buried there. While there are no new grave spaces available, there
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#1732852729460264-404: The area started with the construction of three railway lines across West End Lane: Hampstead Junction Railway , built by 1857; Midland line , opened in 1868; and Metropolitan & St. John's Wood line, opened in 1879. West Hampstead was the name adopted by Metropolitan & St. John's Wood for its station on West End Lane. The period of greatest development in the area was the 15 years from
286-519: The cemetery include jay , robin redbreast , green woodpecker , long-tailed tit , goldcrest , willow warbler and linnet . It is also home to the ubiquitous grey squirrel , as well as many species of fungi. 51°33′19″N 0°12′00″W / 51.55528°N 0.20000°W / 51.55528; -0.20000 West Hampstead West Hampstead is an affluent area in the London Borough of Camden in north-west London. Mainly defined by
308-484: The covers of local guidebooks. Similarly, the tomb of James Wilson ('Wilson Pasha'), Chief Engineer to the Egyptian Government (1875-1901), executed in red marble and also found in the eastern section, has a striking Egyptian look to it. The monument built by the sculptor Sir William Goscombe John to his wife Marthe (d. 1923) was stolen from the cemetery in 2001 but later returned after being spotted at an auction
330-516: The eccentric inscriptions they bear. The eastern part of the cemetery houses the so-called Bianchi Monument, a large triangular grave for the Gall family, executed in the finest Art Deco style by the Trieste-born sculptor Romeo Rathmann in 1937. The most prominent feature of the grave – a stylised sculpture of a female angel raising her hands to heaven – has become famous in its own right, and often adorns
352-533: The growth of oak woodlands over time. Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into a New World and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac ), while the grey jays of the genus Perisoreus form a group of their own. The black magpies , formerly believed to be related to jays, are classified as treepies . The word jay has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning
374-470: The northern section of West End Lane and around West End Green. Located in travel zone 2, West Hampstead has excellent transport links, and is served by three stations: West Hampstead on the Jubilee line , West Hampstead Overground station and West Hampstead Thameslink station . An area, known as "le Rudyng" (indicating a woodland clearing) in the mid-13th century, had by 1534 come to be called West End. It
396-406: The opening of that station, with estates on the west side of West End Lane being turned from farmland and parkland into housing estates. In 1897 large-scale development started on the east side of West End Lane, where three large houses, West End Hall, Canterbury House and Treherne House, had stood until then. There are three railway stations named West Hampstead , all within close proximity, and
418-409: The present-day railway lines. West End Lane had been rerouted, making it straighter and lying further to the west than previously. In 1851 residents were mainly agricultural labourers, gardeners, craftsmen and tradespeople, with an innkeeper, two beershop keepers, a schoolmistress and a few gentry. There were three main large houses: West End House, West End Hall and Lauriston Lodge. Transformation of
440-437: The railway stations of the same name, it is situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east, Swiss Cottage to the east, South Hampstead to the south-east and Kilburn to the west and south-west. The neighbourhood is mainly residential with several local amenities including a range of independent shops, supermarkets, restaurants, bars, cafes and bakeries; most of which are concentrated in
462-594: The sculpted church organ in memory of Charles Barritt. There are buried in the cemetery 216 Commonwealth service personnel from the First World War and 44 from the Second , besides one Polish and one Czech serviceman from the latter war. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial near the north boundary, right of the main entrance. The cemetery also contains several graves notable either from an architectural point of view or for
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#1732852729460484-462: Was then a freehold estate belonging to Kilburn Priory , and was so called because it was at the west end of another, larger estate. Although it is possible that there was a dwelling on the estate prior to 1244, an estate house was certainly extant by 1646. West End Lane (named as such by 1644), the main road through the area, is still bent at a right-angle at the north and south ends where it connects to Finchley Road and Edgware Road respectively. This
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