Fitzroy Park
street in Highgate, London, England, UK
Fitzroy Park is a road in Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. It is entered from The Grove and runs down hill to Millfield Lane. The road originally formed the carriage drive for Fitzroy House. The formerly rural setting of the road was significantly altered during the 20th century by the development of large private residences and high walls.
It is noted for its modernist houses. Nos. 8a and 10 are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The Hexagon, a gated housing development on Fitzroy Park, was built on the gardens of Witanhurst in the 1960s. A further development of 24 houses was built in 7 acres of the grounds of Witanhurst in 1985. The houses were priced between £750,000 and £1.5 million (equivalent to £4,645,846 in 2025).
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fitzroy Park” is street in Highgate, London, England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fitzroy, Park and street, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q109546877. Authority coordinates are 51.570, -0.156. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2025.
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