Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill is a hill of 256 feet (78 m) located on the north side of Regent's Park in North London, England, and also the name for the surrounding district. The hill has a clear view of Central London to the south-east, as well as Belsize Park and Hamp

Primrose Hill is a hill of 256 feet (78 m) located on the north side of Regent's Park in North London, England, and also the name for the surrounding district. The hill has a clear view of Central London to the south-east, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead to the north.

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Like Regent's Park, Primrose Hill was once part of a great chase appropriated by Henry VIII and became Crown property in 1841. In 1842 an Act of Parliament secured the land as public open space. The built up part of Primrose Hill consists mainly of Victorian terraces. It has always been one of the more fashionable districts in the urban belt that lies between the core of London and the outer suburbs, and remains expensive and prosperous. Primrose Hill is an archetypal example of a successful London urban village, due to the location and the quality of its socio-historical development In October 1678 Primrose Hill (then known as Greenberry Hill) was the scene of the mysterious murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey.

Transport

Nearest places

Nearest tube stations

  • Chalk Farm tube station
  • Belsize Park tube station
  • Swiss Cottage tube station
  • St John's Wood tube station

The Primrose Hill set

The Primrose Hill set is a name often applied to a group of British film and television actors who achieved celebrity in the mid-1990s. The term grew in use in the British media to identify the group as socially homogeneous and also as a convenient label similar to the Young British Artists and Britpop labels of the same period. Many of the groups members appeared with each other in film and television productions in the mid-nineties and later cast each other in their own productions.

The group was named after Primrose Hill in North London. The core members of the group had lived close to each other as young actors in that area, as well as Belsize Park and Hampstead; the social focus for the group was really the Notting Hill area.

Core members

  • Damon Bryant
  • Holly Davidson
  • Sadie Frost
  • Rhys Ifans
  • Jude Law
  • Steven MacKintosh
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Jonny Lee Miller
  • Kate Moss
  • Sean Pertwee
  • Davinia Taylor
  • Sienna Miller

Frost and Law later married. Frost, Law, Pertwee and Miller set up their own production company "Natural Nylon" that made feature films starring many members of the original set. Although he had no locational ties to the group, Robert Carlyle has also consistently appeared alongside the Primrose Hill actors and has come to be synonymous with this era of British cinema.

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Films

Films generally thought of as fitting into the Primrose Hill set include:

  • Blue Juice (1995)
  • Trainspotting (1996)
  • Final Cut (1998)
  • Love, Honour and Obey (2000)