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Swains Lane, London, N6 6PJ Full details & map
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The final resting place of some very famous Londoners, Highgate Cemetery is a wonderfully overgrown maze of ivy-cloaked Victorian tombs and time-shattered urns. Visitors are free to wander through the East Cemetery, with its memorials to Karl Marx, George Eliot and Douglas Adams, but the most atmospheric part of the cemetery is the foliage-shrouded West Cemetery, laid out in 1839. Only accessible on an organised tour (book ahead, dress respectfully and arrive 30mins early), the shady paths wind past gloomy catacombs, grand Victorian pharaonic tombs, and the graves of notables such as Christina Rossetti, the scientist Michael Faraday and poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. The cemetery closes during burials, so call ahead.


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Highgate Cemetery

Swains Lane, London N6 6PJ

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020 8340 1834

Highgate Cemetery website
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org

East Cemetery: Apr-Oct 10am-4.30pm Mon-Fri; 11am-4.30pm Sat, Sun; Nov-Mar 10am-3.30pm Mon-Fri; 11am-3.30pm Sat, Sun. West Cemetery by tour only: Nov-Mar hourly 11am-3pm Sat, Sun. Apr-Oct hourly 11am-4pm Sat, Sun

£3, tours £5. No under-8s

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By Michael Goldrei - Aug 18 2011
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Both the East and West cemeteries are fascinating. If you're thinking about visiting both, it's worth investigating becoming a Friend of Highgate Cemetery, which you may discover works out cheaper.

For some photos of the West cemetery and a few descriptions of the people buried there are, visit my Flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/microsketch/sets/72157626765351187/

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