Old Wyldes Farm, the only surviving farmhouse on Hampstead Heath, is particularly famous for its association with William Blake and his younger fellow-artist and patron John Linnell. In 1823 Linnell rented part of the farm from Mr. Collins, hence its name at the time of "Collins's Farm"; in March of the following year he took the whole of the farm and moved in with his family, staying there until 1828. Blake was a frequent visitor there until his death in 1827, and Constable and William Collins were neighbours. Later in 1837 Charles Dickens lived there briefly. The farm is a weatherboard house in North End, on the east side of Hampstead Way, and is illustrated in Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London except the Cities of London and Westminster, 1953, pl. 46; see also the catalogue of the John Linnell exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum and Yale Center for British Art, 1982-3, nos. 53, 58 and 59, repr.