Meadway and the Great Wall form parallel axes running through the central area of Hampstead Garden Suburb.
Meadway and the Great Wall form parallel axes running through the central area of Hampstead Garden Suburb. There is a gentle slope from Central Square towards Meadway Gate.
This area was part of the original land purchase in 1907 from Eton College and was laid out in early plans by Raymond Unwin. Homes were designed individually or in small groups by different architects. The area was designed to provide large homes, adjacent to the Heath Extension, for the affluent middle class families on Meadway and its adjoining cul-de-sacs.
Meadway is a wide, busy, through route with particularly fine houses near Meadway Gate and also at its junction with Hampstead Way. Much of Meadway was designed by Soutar in the 1920s with dark brick, tiles, and arts and crafts detailing. The junction with Litchfield Way and Grey Close was originally intended by Bailie Scott to have a hexagonal layout in the late 1920s.
Meadway Court was intended to be service flats, and the Emmott Close flats were aimed at working women.
The crossing of Meadway and Hampstead Way is known as Baillie-Scott Corner.
