Science and City Suburbs 



" At the foot of the hill is an old-fashioned farm- 

 stead known as Wyldes Farm. Here the cows 

 graze in wide, undulating pastures, the hay is 

 made every summer and gathered into stacks, and 

 life passes peacefully, as if the great city with all 

 its strain and stress, its noise and bustle were not 

 almost within sound of the sunny, silent reaches 

 of the farm. 



"The land stretches away to the uplands and 

 copses of Bishop's Wood on one side and to the 

 great highway of the Finchley Road on the other ; 

 and it has a long frontage to the Heath, which 

 extends from North End to near the well-known 

 Scotch Firs. 



" But these undulating pasture lands, these wood- 

 land retreats on this side of Hampstead Heath, were 

 doomed. In extending the Tube Railway to Hamp- 

 stead Heath it was decided to place a station at 

 North End, close to Wyldes Farm, and the whole 

 of the farm lands were destined to be covered 

 with streets of small houses for the industrial 

 classes. 



" It does not require a great stretch of imagina- 

 tion to realise how the sylvan beauty of the Heath 

 would be destroyed by the trampling of thousands 

 of heedless feet, and the view, so beautiful and 

 inspiring, would be ruined by the streets of mean 

 houses with monotonous rows of slate-covered 

 roofs. 



"To preserve the beauty of the Heath to the 

 enjoyment of all for ever, and to secure the wide 

 farm lands as an open space, and also as the site 



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