page_title: Dartmouth Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dartmouth Park / History
context_page_description: Dartmouth Park is a district of north London in the Borough of Camden, 6.0 km north of Charing Cross. The area adjoins Highgate and Highgate Cemetery and Kentish Town. Parliament Hill is to the west.
  The nearest Underground stations are Tufnell Park and Archway, both on the Northern line. The nearest Overground station is Gospel Oak.
context_section_description: Dartmouth Park is named after the Earl of Dartmouth who bought the land in St Pancras parish in the middle of the 18th century, for the relative position of which see Ossulstone Hundred. The 5th Earl of Dartmouth allowed a wave of scrutinised house building in the late 19th century, with most later waves also subject to amenity-giving planning conditions and/or restrictive covenants, such as a limitation on density.
  By then the need to increase the supply of fresh water to serve London's growth meant that water companies were building new facilities. Two covered reservoirs were constructed on Maiden Lane (since renamed Dartmouth Park Hill) in 1855 by the New River Company and connected to its new waterworks and pumping station by Stoke Newington reservoirs, two boroughs to the east. Later owned by the Metropolitan Water Board, the reservoirs are now owned by Thames Water Utilities.
caption: Chetwynd Road and St Mary Brookfield
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