• Having turned into Templewood Gardens...

...at the gated entrance to Beechwood Close there is Hampstead plaque low down on the brick wall. John Spedan Lewis once lived close by and founded Britain’s favourite co-operative retail group bearing his name.   ///pulled.rail.aura

• Return to Templewood Avenue and turn right, back into West Heath Road - walk right along this road to a sharp bend and junction...

• On your immediate right is Mansion Gardens...

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There is a plaque on the gateway here celebrating John Constable’s painting in this area of the Heath. The artist lived in Hampstead between the years 1819 - 1837 and is buried in the parish churchyard. One of the most celebrated of his Hampstead landscapes is a view to the north-west from Judges Walk. Now in the Tate Gallery it shows the Heath, Branch Hill Pond and Harrow on the Hill in the far distance,  and takes its title from a house called 'The Salt Box' which stood near this plaque.   ///pens.bonus.taken

• Return to West Heath Road and walk back across the junction and into Branch Hill...