Fortune Green

Fortune Green
Fortune Green Fortune Green shown within Greater London
London borough	Camden
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	NW2, NW6
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Hampstead and Highgate
London Assembly	Barnet and Camden
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Coordinates: 51°33′20″N 0°11′40″W / 51.555556°N 0.194444°W / 51.555556; -0.194444

Fortune Green was originally part of the district of Hampstead but became physically separated from it by the building of the new turnpike road (now Finchley Road) in the 1830s.

Lying on the south-west side of the Finchley Road, Hampstead town council decided to build its overflow cemetery there in the 1840s. A guide to the cemetery, with short biographies of selected grave occupants with map of their location and illustrations of the more prominent monuments was published in 2000.^[1]^[2]

It now lies in the London Borough of Camden.

Nearby places

Childs Hill (to the north)
Frognal / Hampstead (to the east)
West Hampstead (to the south)
Kilburn (to the south-west)
Mapesbury (to the west)
Cricklewood (to the north-west)

References

↑ Colloms, Marianne and Weindling, Dick (2000). The Good Grave Guide to Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green. Camden History Society, London.
↑ Camden History Society website

London Borough of Camden

Districts	Belsize Park Bloomsbury Brondesbury Camden Town Chalk Farm Covent Garden Cricklewood Dartmouth Park Fitzrovia Fortune Green Frognal Gospel Oak Hampstead Haverstock Highgate Holborn Kentish Town Kilburn Kings Cross Primrose Hill Regent's Park Saffron Hill St Giles St Pancras Somers Town South Hampstead Swiss Cottage Tufnell Park West Hampstead

Attractions	Ben Uri Gallery Bloomsbury Theatre British Library British Museum BT Tower Camden Arts Centre Dickens House Museum Dominion Theatre Donmar Warehouse Foundling Museum Fenton House Freud Museum Highgate Cemetery Keats House Kenwood House The Jewish Museum Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Roundhouse Shaftesbury Theatre Sir John Soane's Museum Wellcome Collection West End theatre

Street markets	Camden Market Queen's Crescent Market

Parks and open spaces	Bloomsbury Square Hampstead Heath Kilburn Grange Park Lincoln's Inn Fields Phoenix Garden Primrose Hill Regents Park Russell Square Waterlow Park

Constituencies	Hampstead and Kilburn Holborn and St. Pancras

Tube and rail stations	Belsize Park Camden Road Camden Town Chalk Farm Chancery Lane Euston tube station (and West Coast Mainline terminus) Euston Square Finchley Road Finchley Road & Frognal Goodge Street Gospel Oak railway station Hampstead Hampstead Heath Holborn Kentish Town Kentish Town West Kilburn High Road King's Cross St. Pancras tube station London King's Cross railway station St Pancras railway station Mornington Crescent Russell Square South Hampstead Swiss Cottage Tottenham Court Road Warren Street West Hampstead West Hampstead (Overground) West Hampstead (Thameslink)

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