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This hill is the southern entrance to the park of Hampstead Heath, one of the most important parks in North London. In this place stood Traitor's Hill, where battles have broken out throughout history. Queen Boadicea or Buddica is said to have been killed here, while leading an attack against the Roman settlement of Londinium. Her tomb can be found further to the south, near King's Cross Station.

The name has nothing to do with the Houses of Parliament, but rather this was the place where troops loyal to Parliament, fighting against the English king, stood during the English Civil War of the seventeenth century.

Nowadays, Hampstead Heath is a popular spot for North Londoners to have picnics or play sports. Many of them fly kites on the hill, where there are lovely views of St Paul's, the Gherkin, St Pancras Station and Canary Wharf. In fact when you walk through this park of 800 acres, you feel like you're walking through the countryside, and not in the middle of one of the world's biggest cities. If we continue along the south side of the park to the west, you'll find a series of ponds where the daring sometimes swim. Just south of the park on a street called Keats Grove is the house where the poet John Keats lived between 1818 and 1820 before leaving for Rome where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 years.
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