Highgate Cemetery

"Although Highgate is not London’s oldest cemetery, it’s certainly one of the best known." Full review

"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." Full review

"Eerily gothic home to Karl Marx and The Highgate Vampire."

"In two separate parts, it contains the tombs of several famous people: in the eastern section, those of the writer George Elliot and Karl Marx." Full review

"This private cemetery opened in 1839 in response to the rapidly increasing number of Londoners resulting from the Industrial revolution." Full review

"London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters. " Full review

"Dating back to the 1800's, Highgate was a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited." Full review

"Although Highgate is not London’s oldest cemetery, it’s certainly one of the best known." Full review

"Ghost-chasers and history buffs alike will love to walk around Highgate Cemetery...it is also a nature reserve, and the entire grounds are lush, beautiful, and feel a bit out-of-time."

"A stone's throw east of Hampstead Heath, this beautiful cemetery is laid out around a huge 300-year-old cedar tree and is laced with serpentine pathways" Full review