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Primrose Hill is an archetypal example of a successful London urban village, due to the location and the quality of its socio-historical development, and is home to many prominent residents. Beginning in the late 1960s several of the roads were closed to motor traffic in response to an unacceptable
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During the 1990s Primrose Hill was a popular place to live with some who worked in the film, music and fashion industries and who were referred to as the
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level of collisions and consequent loss of life. The changes were carefully designed to render the area largely free of through motor traffic.
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Elliott Square is a grouping of modernist 1960s houses by Douglas Streeter, built as part of the Chalcot Estate on land owned by
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The area east of the park was developed and became known as Primrose Hill. Primrose Hill is surrounded by
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commemorating the historic personalities that have lived there. The plaques mark the residences of poet
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also lived at 23 Fitzroy Road, from December 1962 and died there, by suicide, on 11 February 1963.
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each lived at different times at the Rocking Horse House on Regent's Park Road. Broadcasters
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at 11, 13, and 14 St Mark's Crescent respectively; revolutionary socialist and philosopher
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This article is about the district. For the park in this district, see
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Primrose Hill and Regent's Park in Literature and Music
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Primrose Hill

Regent's Park Road
London Borough of Camden
England
St John's Wood
Swiss Cottage
Belsize Park
Chalk Farm
Camden Town
Regent's Park
Tube
Chalk Farm
Swiss Cottage
Primrose Hill railway station
Primrose Hill Tunnel
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English Heritage blue plaques in Primrose Hill
Sir Hugh Clough
A. J. P. Taylor
William Roberts
Friedrich Engels
Regent's Park Road
Roger Fenton
Sylvia Plath
Chalcot Square
William Butler Yeats
Fitzroy Road
Stanley Johnson
Lukas Heller

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