Willifield Way, NW11

Willifield Way runs south from ‘Crickmer Circus’ to meet Hampstead Way before the junction with Meadway.

Hampstead Garden Suburb from Willifield Way (1914)
Credit: William Whitehead Ratcliffe/Tate

This area was part of the original 1907 land purchase from Eton College, and was developed mainly in 1907-08. Willifield Way contains cottages built by Parker and Unwin but building was completed as late as 1912 in the Sutcliffe group at the south end of Willifield Way.

The houses on Willifield Way were designed in groups by architects closely associated with Unwin. There are groups of houses by G. Lucas, Michael Bunney, Sutcliffe and Crickmer.

Willifield Way Green is a 0.29 hectare green space beside the road. It evokes an idealised rural ambience around which houses are formally grouped.

Main source:	The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

MARY RUSHTON-BEALES

Willifield Way, NW11

Added: 25 Jan 2021 17:58 GMT

MY GRANDMA GREW UP HERE - 100 WILLIFIELD WAY
MY GRANDMA WINIFRED AND HER BROTHERS ERIC AND JEFF LIVED AT 100 WILLIFIELD WAY. THEY WERE PART OF THE HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. GRANDMA ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT WILLIFIELD WAY AND HER LIFE IN HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB WITH GREAT AFFECTION. SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT THEY HAD BETTER EDUCATION BECAUSE THEY LIVED THERE. NOT LONG AGO MY BROTHER AND I TOOK THE TRAIN TO THIS PART OF LONDON AND WALKED DOWN THE ROAD. THE HOUSE IS STILL THERE

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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
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Constructing Golders Green station (c. 1904) This is a view from above the Northern Line tunnel entrance Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1660648864 Licence:	Eton College Estate was the land beneath modern Temple Fortune. The Estate, which consisted in 1828 of 315 acres, originated in grants of land by Bela, widow of Austin the mercer, in 1259 and by William de Pavely and his wife in 1273. TUM image id: 1637236470 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Henly’s Corner garage. Many London junctions are named after pubs, garages and other commercial sites which are no longer there, but the names persist. TUM image id: 1603121810 Licence:	La Délivrance (photographed 2006) This statue at Henly’s Corner, Finchley was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914. It is the work of French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume (1867-1942) and was originally called ’La Victoire’. It depicts a naked female figure standing on tip-toe with both feet on a bronze hemisphere. She lifts her face to the sky and holds both arms aloft, with a sword in her right hand with the title ’Délivrance’ embossed on the hilt. Credit: Wikicommons/Martin Addison TUM image id: 1603120651 Licence:	View towards Central Square Credit: Hampstead Garden Suburb trust TUM image id: 1556568888 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Golders Green Road Formerly a particular select area of large houses, during the 20th century the character of Golders Green Road drastically changed as the street became the commercial heart of the new suburb of Golders Green. Credit: Wiki Commons/Mark Ahsmann TUM image id: 1698416928 Licence:	Meadway Gate (c.1924) An album of watercolours depicting a variety of Hampstead Garden Suburb scenes was painted between 1923 and 1925 by William Isaac Aston. Credit: William Isaac Aston (1857-1939) TUM image id: 1674232869 Licence:	Addison Way Credit: Raymond Lowe Collection TUM image id: 1712162222 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Excerpt from Unwin’s 1905 plan showing a more rounded treatment of the central area Credit: Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust TUM image id: 1712313860 Licence: CC BY 2.0	South Square Credit: Hampstead Garden Suburb Heritage TUM image id: 1556626310 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The corner of Corringway and Corringham Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb (2021) Credit: Instagram/@audsbitsnbobs TUM image id: 1630938723 Licence:	Falloden Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1983 Credit: Geograph/David Howard TUM image id: 1712241381 Licence: CC BY 2.0