Regent's Park Tube station 'best for scientist blue plaques'

Barratt London mapped more than 1,000 of the commemorative markers across the Underground network to reveal the capital’s most cultural Tube lines and stations.

And while South Kensington came out top with 72 English Heritage blue plaques - one north London Tube station stood for the former homes of pioneering scientists.

Dr Ernest Jones was a pioneering Welsh psychoanalyst who was a close associate of Sigmund Freud. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

According to the property developers, Regent's Park turned out to be London's leading scientific station, with nine plaques linked to scientists such as psychoanalyst - and biographer of Sigmund Freud - Dr Ernest Jones at York Terrace.

And 19th century scientist and inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, who has a plaque on his former home in Park Crescent.

But Regent's Park also boasts other blue plaques to major cultural figures such as War of The Worlds author HG Wells who lived - and died - at 13, Hanover Terrace; Lark Ascending composer Ralph Vaughan Williams who lived at 10 Hanover Terrace, and writer Elizabeth Bowen, whose home was at 1-7 Clarence Terrace overlooking the park.

Barratt London named Hampstead Tube station as the second best in London to spot blue plaques with a staggering 68 dotted around its historic streets - including 12 connected to painters such as John Constable and Piet Mondrian.

War of the Worlds author HG Wells has a blue plaque in Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

The Northern and Piccadilly lines emerged as London’s top “literary lines”, each home to 68 blue plaques linked to writers, while Russell Square - with its connection to The Bloomsbury Group and the former home of Charles Dickens was named the capital’s most literary station, with 18 writers linked to homes nearby.

Dating back to 1866 in London the blue plaque scheme is run by English Heritage and honours prominent figures who have been dead for at least 20 years.

They must be closely associated with a surviving building that they would have recognised which must be clearly visible from a public highway and gain permission from the current householders.