London NW5 - Word on the street
What is it really like to live in London NW5?
FindaProperty.com presents a selection of local residents reviews and reports, detailing their own experiences of living in London NW5.
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07 February 2006
I have lived in Kentish Town all my life and love it...
It is an area with secret beauty but with no pretensions like Highgate and Primrose Hill. It doesn't pretend to be anything else apart from what it is a great place to live with unusual shops and even more unusual people.
Word On The Street: Kentish Town
01 August 2005
Have lived in Kentish Town for 7 years...
The High Street has some brilliant features such as a fabulouls organic butcher and fishmongers, as well as the kind of hard ware store that every high street should have.
24 April 2003
An area of hidden gems! ...
The best "corner shop" ever, Mehmets on Leverton St. An embarassment of riches with gastro-pubs, like The Junction, St.Johns, Lord Palmerston, and the most excellent Pineapple. The area between Brecknock Rd and Leighton Road is like a village, all we need is a really great coffee shop.
Kentish Town Road is full of gorgeous independent shops next to others you'd prefer to avoid. But it is this unpredictable mix that has thankfully halted the attentions of such chains as Gap etc and the ubiquitous Starbucks. Thank God I say.
16 April 2003
Aspire to Primrose Hill or Highgate Village but lack the necessary cash?...
Then have a look at the streets between Leighton, Brecknock and Fortess roads in Kentish Town. Good transport, excellent pubs and restaurants nearby plus the Heath just seven minutes walk away.
23 August 2001
Kentish Town high street forms a grim bulwark...
...against gentrification, but the streets to the east of the high street (esp. Patshull Road) and further north (like Montpelier Grove and Falkland Road) are elegant and quiet. This and recent additions to the local restaurants and bars have helped to make the area as pleasant to live in as some of the adjacent posher areas (Hampstead, Highgate), without the price premium.
15 August 2001
I lived in Gainsford Street for 6 months and encountered no problems, during the day or night...
The area below the tube station seems more gentrified and is a stroll away from Camden or even Primrose HIll or Belsize Park, which command higher prices. The bus connections are very good. Shops are for the economically minded (no boutiques). It's a great base and at night a 10minute drive to the West End. Not too pretty, but my house had plenty of character which made up for it.
09 July 2001
I've lived in Kentish Town for two years and have seen various attempts at gentrification fail...
Kentish Town Road is still as scruffy as ever, the street is always dirty and there's not much in the way of shops, apart from the Owl Bookshop, which is great. However it's a 6-minute walk to Camden Market, not far to Chalk Farm Road which is becoming very trendy, and both Hampstead Heath and Primrose Hill are walkable.
It's also very handy for Town but at the same time you can get a train direct to Luton Airport from Kentish Town station. The property in East Kentish Town is very much nicer than in West Kentish Town - lovely tree-lined streets and big Victorian houses. It's a very cosmopolitan and multicultural area, probably something like Notting Hill was before it wasn't any more. I like it here very much.
07 November 2000
Dartmouth Park has already 'arrived' but Kentish Town is a mine of untapped potential...
Off the scruffy Kentish Town Road and Fortess Road are lots of wonderful residential streets, and the area is incredibly convenient and central, with great transport links.
Also, it hasn't been taken over by chains, so there are plenty of interesting little shops and restaurants which give the area individuality. And arguably the biggest plus of all... Hampstead Heath.
