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The vale is a maze of roads, houses and alleyways like this one which leads from the north side of the vale to the Triangle in the middle.
©Martin Addison
Another of the branches of this road with some unusual housing, though the plaster work above the windows mirrors that on the houses in the triangle.
©Martin Addison
Another of the alleyways in the vale leading through to the triangle in the middle.
©Martin Addison
The vale is a maze of roads, houses and alleyways like this one beside Chestnut Cottage.
©Martin Addison
Shows the location of [[1071132]] - as does [[1004004]] (but not the contents of the skip).
©Mike Quinn
Or, more formally, The Vale of Health. Actually, it wasn't always particularly healthy, being a bog in the 18th and early 19th C - see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22642 . See also [[1131616]].
©Mike Quinn
Looking along one of the branches of this road. Here we see Byron Villas where D.H.Lawrence lived in 1915.
©Martin Addison
Hampstead Heath has long been north London's green lung: a setting for romantic trysts by day and by night a more dangerous kind.
©ceridwen
Looking along the north side of the triangle towards the main Vale of Health road.
©Martin Addison
See [[1071161]].
©Mike Quinn
These two form part of a terrace of four on the north side of a triangle in the Vale of Health. The blue plaque recalls that the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore stayed in this house in 1912. Information about him may be found on Wikipedia.
©Martin Addison
There are a number of paths running off in different directions through the woods around here.
©Peter
See [[1071170]]; and [[1004008]].
©Mike Quinn
Shows the location of [[1071132]].
©Mike Quinn
The "high" posting aperture dates this postbox to 1879-1883.
©Mike Quinn

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