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Hampstead London: what's on and things to do
The Heath, the ponds you can swim in all year, and a free Adam house at the top with Rembrandts in it. The one part of this list where the point is the walk.
What to expect
12 listings ahead in Hampstead. The busiest rooms are Hampstead Theatre, Parliament Hill and Highgate Cemetery. Mostly Theatre, Sport and Seasonal.
Nearby
Each venue above has its own page with its address, its opening hours and every date we hold for it.
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Exhibitions Free
Free entry: Kenwood House
A Robert Adam house at the top of the Heath with a Rembrandt self portrait and a Vermeer in it, and no admission charge. The library is the room people stand in longest.
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Free
Parliament Hill viewpoint
A protected view all the way to the City, which is why nothing is allowed to be built in front of it. Ten minutes up from Gospel Oak and worth doing an hour before sunset.
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Sport Free
Dogs on Hampstead Heath
Eight hundred acres, off lead almost everywhere, and the one swimming pond dogs are allowed in is not one of the bathing ponds. Busiest at the Parliament Hill end on a weekend morning.
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Free
Stargazing on Hampstead Heath
As dark as central London gets, which is not very, but Parliament Hill has the horizon and the local society runs public evenings on the hill through the winter. Take a torch and a coat.
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Free
A walk through Hampstead village
Lanes that were a hill village before London reached them, and still read like one above the high street. Flask Walk and Holly Mount are the two to take if you only take two.
