Hampstead Road

(NW1) On the site of the New River Reservoir, on the east side of Hampstead Road, stood, till the year 1808, the building marked in old maps of London as King John's Palace. On the east side also is St. James's Chapel, where lie the remains of Lord George Gordon, the principal cause of the "Protestant Riots in 1780. Here also lie buried the eminent painters John Hoppner and George Morland. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. I, p. 382)

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