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Holy Trinity Church was designed in 1845/6 by Anthony Salvin who lived in East Finchley and was the Vicar's Warden. At that time the area was still little more than a village, but it developed rapidly after the railway was extended to Edgware and High Barnet between 1867 and 1872. In the 1860s the church was enlarged. The churchyard contains a number of mature trees and some interesting tombs.

Lawrence Campe Almshouses were built in c.1612 to provide for 12 poor people, each of whom was given a monthly allowance of one shilling. The founder, Lawrence Campe, was a draper's merchant in the City of London. The almshouses consist of a row of seven two-storey red brick cottages set back from the road, fronted by lawn with country-garden style flowers against the houses and a simple white paling fence separating them from the road.

Leathersellers' Close contains the Leathersellers' Almshouses and related grounds. The two wings of almshouses and the central Chapel block were built between 1838 and 1866 in the Gothic style and then rebuilt and remodelled in 1964-1966. The small Victorian lodge dates from 1859.To the south of the central path are large ornamental iron gates and, just inside the gates, a pair of decorative Victorian lampposts. The extensive grounds are mostly laid to grass and contain many fine mature trees, including several beech and holly, a tulip tree and a Monterey cypress, together with mixed shrub borders and eight standard bay trees at the sides of the central path.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was conceived by Dame Henrietta Barnett in 1903 when the area, hitherto rural, became ripe for development. Her aim was to provide a garden suburb for the working classes, with some larger houses as well as amenities. The overall layout was the work of Raymond Unwin. The street pattern followed the land contours, with curving and straight roads to create interesting viewpoints, closes and squares, street trees, a pedestrian network of footpaths and a variety of green spaces. The first phase was largely built between 1907 - 1912 and included Linnell Drive and Linnell Close. The houses are fronted by a large area of communal garden, consisting of lawn and separated from the road by hedging.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was conceived by Dame Henrietta Barnett in 1903 when the area, hitherto rural, became ripe for development. Her aim was to provide a garden suburb for the working classes, with some larger houses as well as amenities. The overall layout was the work of Raymond Unwin. The street pattern followed the land contours, with curving and straight roads to create interesting viewpoints, closes and squares, street trees, a pedestrian network of footpaths and a variety of green spaces. The first phase was largely built between 1907 - 1912 and included Litchfield Square. Hedge and trees separate the square from the road, the houses on three sides fronting onto a neat slightly raised lawn.

Traces of a C17th/C18th walled kitchen garden remain in private gardens on Cat Hill, once part of the gardens of Little Grove estate. Owned from 1674-8 by the widow of the Stuart diplomat and gardener Sir Richard Fanshawe, the estate was acquired by John Cotton in 1719 who built a house to the south of Cat Hill. In 1767 the then owner Judge Edward Willes commissioned Capability Brown to lay out the park. In 1932 the house was demolished and a housing estate constructed along Cat Hill and across the park.

Little Wood has existed as woodland for over 1000 years, probably part of land given to the Bishop of London in c704AD. When Hampstead Garden Suburb was being planned in 1907, its instigator, Dame Henrietta Barnett, was committed to providing green spaces within the housing, planting trees and preserving those that existed. When additional land was acquired to extend the Suburb in 1911, Little Wood was leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and preserved as woodland. In 1920 an open air amphitheatre was built in the woods by the Play and Pageant Union, one of two drama groups that later merged to form the Garden Suburb Theatre. The theatre was restored in 1997. In 1933 Finchley UDC took on the freehold of the woods. Now designated a Nature Reserve, there are a variety of trees including Wild Service Trees associated with ancient woodland, although the trees here are generally no more than 175 years old.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was conceived by Dame Henrietta Barnett in 1903 when the area, hitherto rural, became ripe for development. Her aim was to provide a garden suburb for the working classes, with some larger houses as well as amenities. The overall layout was the work of Raymond Unwin. The street pattern followed the land contours, with curving and straight roads to create interesting viewpoints, closes and squares, street trees, a pedestrian network of footpaths and a variety of green spaces. The first phase was largely built between 1907 and 1912 which included Lucas Square, named after its architect Geoffrey Lucas. Hedged from the road, the houses on three sides look onto a rectangular slightly sunken tennis lawn, separated from a further strip of lawn at the east end by a low wall.

Lyttelton Playing Fields forms part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb, dating from the later phase of development from 1919. This was developed following the Co-Partners' acquisition of 200 acres of land to the north and east of the original suburb. The park is dominated by its open cricket field although in the north, along the Mutton Brook, is a small area of old woodland. This is shown on Rocque's map of 1754 and on 1864 OS maps is marked as Watery Wood. A few mature oaks survive in the park as well as remnant of a hedgerow to the south that once marked the boundary to the Bishop of London's medieval Hornsey Park estate.

Malcolm Park is a small linear park largely laid to grass, now flanked by the M1, the noise of which is ever-present. Remaining open space alongside the railway and Hendon Sidings as the area became built up in the C20th, it was laid out as a park by 1956. A tarmac path runs from north to south and across to the eastern entrance from Woodward Avenue where 3 oval rose beds are situated each side of the path, the only area of formal planting. Trees on the perimeter of the path include willows and copper beech.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was conceived by Dame Henrietta Barnett in 1903 when the area, hitherto rural, became ripe for development. Her aim was to provide a garden suburb for the working classes, with some larger houses as well as amenities. The overall layout was the work of Raymond Unwin. The street pattern followed the land contours, with curving and straight roads to create interesting viewpoints, closes and squares, street trees, a pedestrian network of footpaths and a variety of green spaces. The first phase was largely built between 1907-1912 and included this small public garden at Meadway Gate. It is bisected by a footpath, over which is a pergola, with grass areas and rose beds either side, and perimeter trees.

The Mill Field may be the site of the windmill that gave the area its name, documented in 1321 within a survey of the Manor of Hendon. In 1353 Stephen Nicholls is recorded as the Miller and owner of a farm on 'Le Ridgeway' and on the edge of the park is an C18th listed building, The Old Mill House. However, by the mid C18th the windmill was disused and it had disappeared by 1754. The mill field is now a public park on sloping ground with fine views to the west from the top, where seats are provided. Some fine mature trees and hedgerows remain of the older landscape including oak.