Slip sliding away
The reason that TV shows like Time Team are so popular is that they reveal what's right under our noses/houses. In the case of the neighbouring estate, it appears not much. The Alps, named for the piles of spoil from railways diggings elesewhere may be, it seems, slipping into the railway cutting. This would explain why nothing much has ever been dug into the ground before. Certainly nothing as reckless as an underground car park. And that's without even allowing for the water courses that run down from Hampstead Heath - the pub at the bottom of the site used to draw its water from a well so close to the surface, you'd be forgiven for calling it a stream. The phrase 'This one will run and run' has never been more scary a thought. Today's Latin phrase is 'Caveat emptor'.

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