Next Guided Walk

The History of the Hampstead Heath Ponds

The Hampstead Heath ponds - can there be ponds anywhere in the world, more in the news? Find out what makes them so special.

Date: Sun 06 Dec, 2026

Time: 10:00 am

Duration: 2 hours

Meet at: Burgh House

Walk led by: Marc Hutchinson - Chairman of the Heath & Hampstead Society

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Photographic Contest Winners

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Plaques in Hampstead

Parish Lock-Up

The Parish Lock-Up was formally unveiled in September 1981 by Sir David McNee the Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police from 1977 to 1982.  He was Britain’s most senior police officer at a time of racial, political, and industrial turmoil in London.

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Camden Nature Corridor

Learn about our Society’s project with local green space managers to create the Camden Biodiversity Corridor, reaching from Hampstead Heath southward into Camden neighbourhoods. Creating one of London’s new “nature recovery networks”, the Corridor will make nature on the Heath more resilient to growing pressure from people and climate change, while bringing health-enhancing wildlife experiences to residents in some of the most nature-poor parts of our Borough.Click to read more..

The Jenifer Ford Bequest

The estate of the late Jenifer Ford, a lifelong member of the Society and Hampstead resident and painter, bequeathed to the Society a collection of her paintings of Hampstead and the Heath.

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