11 Facts About Belsize Park

Belsize Park is an affluent residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, England.

Belsize Park is in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency whose present MP is Tulip Siddiq.

Name Belsize Park comes from the 17th-century manor house and parkland which once stood on the site.

Belsize Park House was rebuilt in 1746, after which additional large country houses had been built on the surrounding farmlands for wealthy lawyers and merchants.

Davidson developed his part of the Rosslyn lands, undertaking a mixed development of large semi-detached properties similar to Belsize Park, slowed by a lack of labour through both the substantial development of the neighbouring Maryon Wilson land and the 1860s housing rush.

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Belsize Park is conveniently located in North London with several Tube and Overground stations nearby including:.

Belsize Park is referenced on Sleeper's 1995 debut album Smart in the song "Lady Love Your Countryside" with the lyrics "And we could spend our lives puking in Belsize Park".

Belsize Park is mentioned in the Hitchcock thriller, Dial M for Murder by the lead character Tony Wallace played by Ray Milland when coercing his accomplice, C A Swann into murdering his wife.

Belsize Park Village was recently the setting for a Direct Line Insurance advert featuring Harvey Keitel.

In 1871, Belsize Park was one of the clubs at the inaugural meeting of the Rugby Football Union, and therefore pioneers of the game of Rugby Union.

In 1878, Belsize moved to form Rosslyn Park RFC, becoming one of England's leading clubs.