Judges Walk, Hampstead

A friend of mine, residing at Hampstead, has communicated to me the following information, which I forward to you as likely to instruct your readers. He states that the oldest inhabitant of Hampstead, Mr. Rowbotham, a clock and watchmaker, died recently, at the age of ninety. He told his son and many other persons, that in his youth the *Upper Terrace Avenue*, on the south-west side of Hampstead Heath was known by the name of "The Judges' Walk," from the circumstance of prisoners having been tried there during the plague of London. He further stated, that he had received this information from…