The Bishop’s Avenue

The Bishop's Avenue is a street in London, the street as a billionaire (English Billionaire 's Row ) is called. It is located north of the city in Barnet and is about 1.5 kilometers long. At their are a total of 66 properties. It is intersected by the four-lane A1.

The hilly region is determined in the south through the park Hampstead Heath, on the west by the Golf Course Hampstead Golf Club and on the east by the Golf Club Highgate Golf Club.

Since the 8th century here was the Bishop 's Wood, the forest of the Bishop of London. Only in the 20th century began the Church of England, where plots for sale. These are large on average around 10,000 square meters.

From the 1980s, housing prices rose more than 1 million pounds and are now much higher. The Jersey House was sold in 2010 for 40 million pounds. 2012 a plot of land for 100 million pounds (about 123 million euros ) was offered. Owners are industrialists like Lakshmi Mittal, publisher Richard Desmond and members of the Saudi ruling family, who acquired during the First Gulf War ten villas that stand empty and fall ever since.

A similarly expensive street in London 's Kensington Palace Gardens.