Haverstock

Haverstock Ward
Middlesex
Location
Grid reference:	TQ273845
Location:	51°32’24"N, 0°9’36"W
Data
Population:	12,364  (2011)
Post town:	London
Postcode:	NW3, NW5
Local Government
Council:	Camden
Parliamentary constituency:	Holborn and St Pancras

Haverstock is an urban village of Middlesex, within the metropolitan conurbation to the east of Belsize Park, north of Chalk Farm and west of Kentish Town. It is centred on Queens Crescent and Malden Road. Gospel Oak is to the north, Camden Town to the south.

Primrose Hill and Hampstead Heath are at the south-west and north edges of Haverstock.

Cultural groups, entertainment and retail

The area is ethnically and socially diverse, and the marketplace and surrounding area is well known for its African, Jamaican, South American and Eastern European culture, well reflected in the ethnic food stalls and clothes shops in the area.

The top of Queens Crescent is a diverse street and part-time market lined with about 30 shops/salons including a modern library, post office, two pharmacies, the Sir Robert Peel and specialist grocery shops selling a broad mixture of convenience and exotic foods. These are supplemented with corner cafés and hot food takeaways.

On this street Queen's Crescent Street Market has served the area and Gospel Oak for over 100 years and now frequently hosts farmers' markets and guest traders from across Britain. The marketplace and surrounding area is well known for its African, Jamaican, South American and Eastern European culture.

Neighbouring streets of Kentish Town Road, east, and Chalk Farm Road, south-east are focussed on rows of bars, pubs, clubs and restaurants.

On in popular culture

'The Haverstock Hill Murder' is a detective story by George R Sims in his story collection Dorcas Dene, Detective (1897) and features an early example of a female detective in crime fiction. It was dramatised for BBC Radio in 2008.