London’s Alleys: Trinity Walk, NW3

This is a very steep alley up the slopes that face Finchley Road in South Hampstead. Its origins likely lay with the early development of the farmland into housing as there seems to be no precursor for the alley, it just appeared on maps when the houses arrived.Most of the land around here was owned by the Maryon-Wilson baronets who acquired it following the Dissolution of the Monastries, but when the 7th Baronet, Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson died, he split the land between his three sons. One of th