NORTH
Hampstead Wanderings
One of my favourite things to do at the weekend is to set of from the very southwest end of Hampstead Heath (pictured opposite) and ramble a vaguely diagonal route north, until one of us remembers the way to the Spaniard’s Inn, right at the northwest tip. We will almost always get lost on the way. The Spaniards is one of those gloriously ancient London pubs, built as a tollgate in the 16th century and featuring in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. It’s also, apparently, where Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale, presumably over a pint of lovely citrus IPA. thespaniardshampstead.co.uk