Highgate Cemetery
Take a guided tour of the overgrown Western Cemetery which gives it a special beauty and charm, or visit the East Cemetery unaccompanied where you will find the grave of Karl Marx. There are at least 850 notable people buried at Highgate, from authors Douglas Adams and George Eliot, to Jean Simmons and Michael Faraday; high society Victorians wouldn't be seen dead anywhere else. It has been said that Highgate has the finest collection of Victorian funerary architecture in the country, and the cemetery certainly has more than its fair share of ghosts. There's even a resident vampire!
Why it is worth a visit
Victorian cemetery with overgrown Gothic tombs, the Egyptian Avenue and the grave of Karl Marx.
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Why visit
Victorian cemetery with overgrown Gothic tombs, the Egyptian Avenue and the grave of Karl Marx.
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