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Latitude: 51.5634 / 51°33'48"N
Longitude: -0.1703 / 0°10'13"W
OS Eastings: 526921
OS Northings: 186528
OS Grid: TQ269865
Mapcode National: GBR D0.3QY
Mapcode Global: VHGQL.0Y9X
Plus Code: 9C3XHR7H+8V
Entry Name: Viaduct Bridge at TQ 2692 8652
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378678
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478012
ID on this website: 101378678
Location: Hampstead Heath, Vale of Health, Camden, London, NW3
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Hampstead Town
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Christ Church Hampstead
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Bridge
CAMDEN
TQ2686NE HAMPSTEAD HEATH
798-1/9/742 Viaduct Bridge at TQ 2692 8652
II
Viaduct bridge. c1845. By Joseph Gwilt. For Sir Thomas Maryon
Wilson. Red brick with stone dressings. 5 tall arches with
stone impost bands and heads and small transverse arches carry
a bracketed stone cornice and parapet; south side with iron
railings, north of stone capped brick. Channelled stone
flanking piers and brick abutments.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, lord of the manor
of Hampstead, was anxious to exploit his position on the
fringes of built-up London. He employed Gwilt to lay out his
East Park estate which was to be developed with exclusive
villas. The viaduct bridge was the only part of this scheme
ever undertaken and was accordingly known as "Wilson's Folly",
Wilson failing to obtain Parliamentary authority for the
enclosure of his land.
Listing NGR: TQ2692186528
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