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Hampstead, MD -- U.S. town in Maryland
Population (2000): 5060
Housing Units (2000): 1851
Land area (2000): 2.681299 sq. miles (6.944532 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.681299 sq. miles (6.944532 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36500
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.610303 N, 76.851493 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Hampstead

Hampstead ( or ), commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. It has some of the most expensive housing in the London area. The village of Hampstead has more millionaires within its boundaries than any other area of the United Kingdom.

Hampstead (disambiguation)

Hampstead may refer to:

Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)

Hampstead was a borough constituency, centered on the Hampstead area of North London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, who was elected using the first-past-the-post voting system.

It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Hampstead and Highgate constituency.

Hampstead (Jerusalem, New York)

Hampstead, also known as Henry Rose House, is a historic home located at Jerusalem in Yates County, New York. This Greek Revival style structure was built about 1840 and features a monumental proportioned temple portico with full pediment and wide entabulature supported by massive two story columns.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Hampstead (Tunstall, Virginia)

Hampstead is a historic plantation house located near Tunstall, New Kent County, Virginia. It was built about 1825, as a two-story, rectangular Federal style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The front facade features alternating window bays and pilasters and a central two-story pedimented projecting portico. Also located on the property are the contributing ruins of a granary, an 18th-century cottage and an icehouse

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Usage examples of "hampstead".

If I meant to reach town (as we called it familiarly), I must descend to the valley at once, pass through Uxbridge streets as fast as I could, make a dash across the plain, by what I afterwards knew to be Hillingdon (I saw it then as a nameless village), and aim at a house-crowned hill which I only learned later was Harrow, but which I felt sure would enable me to descend upon London by Hampstead or Highgate.

John's Wood and Hampstead, and eastward in Shoreditch and Highbury and Haggerston and Hoxton, and, indeed, through all the vastness of London from Ealing to East Ham -- people were rubbing their eyes, and opening windows to stare out and ask aimless questions, dressing hastily as the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets.

At that time we lived in an apartment block on the edge of Hampstead Heath which was called Isopod One and had been designed in the international style, along socialist principles, by a famous architecture collective called the Isopod.

And while the great ironmasters, by freely availing themselves of his inventions, have been adding estate to estate, the only estate secured by Henry Cort was the little domain of six feet by two in which he lies interred in Hampstead Churchyard.

He saw the two men stare at each other, in mingled incredulity and alarm, and then he was floating down the cool brown river of his boyhood, on his way--in company with Sarah Purfoy and Lieutenant Frere--to raise the mutiny of the Hydaspes, that lay on the stocks in the old house at Hampstead.

Hampstead that very evening, through another tumultuous rainstorm, arriving to a welcome from the psychiatric nurse in charge of Estabrook's case, a chatty young man called Maurice who lost his top lip when he smiled, which was often, and talked with an almost indiscreet enthusiasm about the state of his patient's mind.

She drove up to Hampstead that very evening, through another tumultuous rainstorm, arriving to a welcome from the psychiatric nurse in charge of Estabrook's case, a chatty young man called Maurice who lost his top lip when he smiled, which was often, and talked with an almost indiscreet enthusiasm about the state of his patient's mind.

There was a time when a Hampstead intellectual was automatically left-wing, and Hampstead was the heartland of radical chic.

They passed Hampstead, Saul still not tired, gorging himself from time to time from backstreet rubbish bins.

The survival of such a venerable piece of street furniture beside an artery like Hampstead Road always fascinates him.

It is the same building in both paintings: long, low and white-a swimming bath which has been transported to Hampstead for the major's artistic purposes.

Gerard speaks of the 'yellow pimpernel growing in abundance between Highgate and Hampstead.