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CHALK FARM RD
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J A M E S T O W N R D
e r FITZROY ROAD CHALCOT RD u i p C A M D E N Camden
GLOUCESTER AVENUE
HILL ROAD
Town
w t y PRINCESS RD OVAL ROAD H I G H
PRIMROSE R EGENT'S PARK ROAD GL OUCES TER AV E S T R E E T
HILL P A R K W A Y
ST EDMUND'S TERRACE 0 q P R I N C E A L B E R T R O A D
A V E N U E
9 London
R O A D
R O A D 8 O U TE R C I R CL E Zoo
ROAD
TOWNSHEND
A L B E R T
G r a n d U n i o n C a n a l R EGENT’S
P R I N C E PAR K

7 built in 1882. Residents
have included the
6 conductor Sir Henry Wood and
W E L L I N G T O N R O A D
Lord's
GRO
Cricket PARK ROAD Snowdon and renowned book illustrator
Ground
Arthur Rackham.
S T J O H N ' S W O O D R O A D L O D G E R O A D the left-hand path that climbs past No. 23 y, once home to Camden’s huge street market is one of the
Continue down Fitzroy Road
opened in 1965.
VE END RD
the poet W B Yeats, then go right
Inside the park, keep to
into Chalcot Road and left down
most popular in the country
to the top of the hill. Soon you
HAMILTON TERRACE
LISSON
boarding school u. Turn right
fork right to the summit, which
and rejoin the canal down steps
offers a fine view of the city Princess Road, past a Victorian pp335–6) through an arch on
M A I D A V A L E
GROVE
LANARK ROAD
CLIFTON RD 5 ORCHARDSON STREET skyline. A viewing panel w across Gloucester Avenue. Turn your left. After browsing there,
left under the railway bridge
helps identify the landmarks
you can take the water bus p
CLIFTON GDNS FRAMPTON STREET but it does not include the 1990 and past the Pirate Castle i, back to Little Venice or turn
a water sports centre. Cross a
RANDOLPH AVENUE
right into Chalk Farm Road
skyscraper at Canary Wharf, with
Warwick BLOMFIELD ROAD EDGWARE RD its pyramid crown, on the left. humpback bridge and enter and walk up to Camden Town
Avenue 1 MAIDA AVENUE Descend on the left, making Camden Lock Market o (see Underground station.
for the park gate at the junction
2 of Regent’s Park Road and
4 Primrose Hill Road.
3
Towards Camden
Almost opposite the gate is
The Queens e, a Victorian pub,
and just to the left is No. 122
Regent’s Park Road r. This
was for 24 years the home of
the Communist phil osopher
Friedrich Engels; he was often
visited there by his friend
Karl Marx.
Turn right and walk down
Regent’s Park Road for 135 m
(150 yd) then turn left up Fitzroy
Road. On the right, between
Nos. 41 and 39, is the entrance
to Primrose Hill Studios t, Kayaking on the canal at Camden Lock
For keys to symbols see back flap
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