Source material about Kentish Town & area local history:

Gillian Tindall The Fields Beneath: the history of one London village 1977 (a history of Kentish Town)

Nicholas Barton The Lost Rivers of London 1992 (covers the Fleet and the Ken which rise on Hampstead Heath and pass through Kentish Town - the 'Ken' giving it its name)

Malcolm J Holmes Britain in Old Photographs: Hampstead to Primrose Hill 1995

P Jones & R Smith A Guide to Records at Guildhall London 1951

Ann Saunders Regent's Park: From 1086 to the Present 1981

John Carswell The Saving of Kenwood and the Northern Heights 1992 (the campaign to secure Kenwood for the public in the 1920s/30s)

Jack Whitehead The Growth of Camden Town AD1800 - 2000 1999

Alan Farmer Hampstead Heath (a history of the Heath) 1984

David Sullivan The Westminster Story: The Anglo-Saxon story of Westminster 1994 Abbey and its lands in Middlesex (covers the Saxon era in Kentish Town & Hampstead)

Charles Lee St Pancras Church and Parish 1955

The Kentish Town Panorama - a fantastic illustration of the whole of the Kentish Town main road from St Pancras and Camden to Swain's Lane in around 1800. Republished in 1986 as 26 picture panels (by the London Topographical Society & London Borough of Camden Libraries Dept). This used to be available in Owl Bookshop for about ?5 and is a real bargain as well as a superb and unique record of this area two hundred years ago.

Information about using local history sources:

Stephen Porter Exploring Urban History: Sources for local historians 1990

W G Hoskins Local History in England 1972

John Richardson The Local Historian's Encyclopedia 1986