"However, just 50 years later, it's showing up as having been cut back to its current length, with the land to the west cleared. That's because the site was needed for the New End Primary School. It took a while for the school to arrive, and it didn't finally open until 1906. It's a grand-looking building in the Edwardian Baroque style, and probably looks a bit familiar, as the London County Council built many schools of this type at the time."
"In 2013, a 20mph speed limit was applied to Murray Terrace, and while it was probably just because it needed to be included in a longer list of roads, it does make you wonder how anyone could have exceeded 20mph without smashing into the end of the lane just 2 seconds later. At least now you'll get a speeding ticket while writing off your car."
"The passageway itself has just four houses on it since it was cut back, and they've always been on the south side facing a brick wall on the opposite side. That used to be the wall around the back garden of a house, but it was demolished when the school was built, and became a slightly odd long rather narrow "peninsula" in the playground."
Murray Terrace is an unnamed, short lane in Hampstead village. The lane appears longer on an 1848 map but was cut back about fifty years later when land to the west was cleared for New End Primary School. The school opened in 1906 in an Edwardian Baroque building. Murray Terrace now provides road access to the school's car park. A 20mph speed limit was applied in 2013. The passage contains four houses on the south side facing a former garden wall removed for the school, creating a narrow peninsula in the playground. The southern entrance retains a rare manhole from the wood-paved streets era.
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