Redington Gardens, NW3
Police officer apprehends a boy for picking flowers on the Heath (1894)
Credit: British Library
Redington Gardens is the northern extension of Heath Drive in Hampstead.

Redington Gardens, from Templewood Avenue to Redington Road was laid out in 1911 and four houses were built there in 1913.

Oak Tree House, designed in 1874 by Basil Champneys for Henry Holiday (1839-1927), the stained-glass painter, on land at Branch Hill Park preceded the road which became its address. Oak Tree House had, by the 1980s, been converted to council flats.

Redington Gardens was laid along the course of the infant River Westbourne, running down the hill here from Branch Hill. It combined here with two tiny tributaries.

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