19 Kingsdown Road in West Hampstead was one of Douglas Adams’ later London homes. By the time he lived here, *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* had already made him a household name, and he was balancing fame, creative ambition, and his growing fascination with technology.
SEARCH 51.5634055, -0.1234344 19 Kingsdown Road, Holloway, London Borough of Islington, London, Greater London, England, N19 4LE, United Kingdom
This house represents a more reflective period in Adams’ life — when he was writing *Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency* and exploring how interconnectedness, coincidence, and absurdity might work outside the *Hitchhiker’s* universe. Kingsdown Road offered a quieter refuge compared to his earlier Islington years, but it still carried the same energy of late-night writing sessions, cluttered rooms, and improbable conversations. Fans visiting the site sometimes describe it as “the end of the London journey” — the last of Adams’ creative homes before he moved to California. It’s where the man who invented 42, Vogons, and digital dolphins began to think more deeply about the real Earth and its future.
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