London’s Alleys: Holly Mount Steps, NW3

This is a pretty little winding passage, with, unsurprisingly, a lot of steps that run from the main Hampstead streets up the hill to Holly Mount and the locally famous Holly Bush pub.This part of Hampstead is littered with Holly Bush references, but that seems to be a later addition.
George Potter writes in Hampstead Wells, published in 1904, that the streets around here were originally named Cloth Hill, as the area was well known for its wells and, hence, as a location for laundries serving th