The Latest Breaking News from Hampstead Heath

The terraced townhouse moments from Hampstead Heath has been in the same family since it was built – and could be a relative bargain for the right buyer

The unknown buyer has a major project on their hands after upping their offer 24 times to land the run-down property near Hampstead Heath

The terraced home close to Hampstead Heath is going to auction with a reserve price close to £1 million despite its run-down condition

Murano chef-patron Angela Hartnett stocks up at La Fromagerie, romances at the French House and loves a crack of dawn walk on Hampstead Heath

Lucy Cavendish was struggling to meet new men in the countryside — so she got on a train to London (with her dogs)

Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday

Open-water swimming is making splashes. Joe Minihane explains how he became an obsessive and picks his favourite UK dips

Fishing gets a high fashion treatment as more urbanites swap nightclubs for riverbanks. Sophie Church reports

Christina Efthimiou, 60, claimed that prices at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond on Hampstead Heath “give rise to unlawful disability discrimination”.

The No. 24 is the oldest surviving bus route in London. It takes people from the hill to the river: Hampstead Heath to Victoria station since 1910, and Hampstead Heath to Pimlico since 1912. Now, as part of the Government’s insistence on diminishing bus services, it is likely to be…

The flat is right next to Hampstead Heath but the building has a no dogs allowed policy