West Hampstead, all within close proximity, and a number of other tube stations in the area. Numerous bus routes pass through the district. Tube: West Hampstead tube station, on the Jubilee line. Nearby is Finchley Road tube station, on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines. Trains: West Hampstead Thameslink station on the cross London Thameslink route, and West Hampstead Overground station on the North London Line. Buses: 139 (Golders Green to Waterloo via Oxford Street, 24 hours), 328 (Golders Green to Chelsea via Notting Hill), and C11 (Brent Cross Shopping Centre to Archway via Hampstead Heath). Notable residents There are four English Heritage blue plaques in West Hampstead commemorating historic personalities that have lived there. The plaques mark the residences of painter David Bomberg at 10 Fordwych Road, conductor Sir Adrian Boult at 78 Marlborough Mansions on Cannon Hill, newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe at 31 Pandora Road, and ophthalmologist Dame Ida Mann at 13 Minster Road. Other notable people Gerry Anderson – publisher, producer, director and writer Joan Armatrading – singer and musician, resident in her early days Camila Batmanghelidjh – businesswoman, charity leader and author Sacha Bennett – filmmaker Dirk Bogarde – actor Paul Brightwell – actor Jim Carter – actor Jonathan Charles - Former BBC presenter and foreign correspondent Michael Clanchy - historian Gus Dudgeon – record producer, lived at Kings Gardens and worked at Decca Studios Maurice Feild – artist Steven Finn – England and Middlesex County Cricket Club player Marina Fiorato – author Stephen Fry – actor and television presenter GFOTY – artist and musician Angela Griffin – actress and television presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer – radio presenter, political journalist and newspaper columnist Margot Heinemann – Marxist writer, leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, born at 89 Priory Road Barry Humphries – comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author known for his character Dame Edna Everage Derek Jacobi – actor Chaka Khan – singer Phyllida Law – actress Doris Lessing – author Dua Lipa – singer and songwriter Matt Lucas – comedian and actor Bill Nighy – actor Slash – guitarist for Velvet Revolver and formerly for Guns N' Roses Henry Spinetti – drummer, session musician and brother of actor Victor Spinetti Dusty Springfield – singer, born and lived on Sumatra Road Imelda Staunton – actress Emma Thompson – actress, comedian and screenwriter Eric Thompson – actor, television presenter and producer Sophie Thompson