South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of London. It is within the London Borough of Camden, and some of its houses overlook Hampstead Heath.

Transport links

Hampstead Heath railway station, on the North London Line, is at the southern end of South Hill Park. Buses, chiefly the number 24, depart from nearby South End Green.

Ruth Ellis

The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, was sentenced to death for a murder committed on South Hill Park. She shot her boyfriend David Blakely outside a public house, The Magdala, on 10 April 1955.

In popular culture

The opening shots of 1965 film Licensed to Kill (a low-budget pastiche of James Bond films) are filmed at the southern end of the street near the entrance to Hampstead Heath opposite the station.

Notable residents