Admiral’s Walk extends from Hampstead Grove to Lower Terrace.
It was a part of Hampstead called The Grove and named officially in 1949. Nearby Hampstead Grove got its new name in 1937.
It takes its name, as does Admiral’s House, from the 18th-century admiral Matthew Barton, Hampstead resident.
The house was built in about 1700, and Fountain North, a naval officer who bought it in 1791, constructed the quarterdeck on the roof where Admiral Barton has long and wrongly been supposed to have fired salutes on special occasions. He died at Admiral’s House in 1795.
Other residents of the house have included Sir George Gilbert Scott and Sir John Fortescue.
