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Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
The charming village of Highgate lies just east of Hampstead Heath and like its famous neighbour, Hampstead, was a favourite retreat for the upper classes and literary figures, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge (author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).
Its unlikely, though perennially popular, visitor highlight is Highgate Cemetery. Opened in 1839, the cemetery soon became the fashionable final resting place of politicians, poets, actors and other Victorian personalities. Monuments grew ever larger and more ornate and Highgate Cemetery soon turned into a tourist attraction. The atmospheric West Cemetery is the real draw, piled high with crumbling catacombs, Egyptian columns and obelisks, ivy-clad vaults and grand mausoleums. It looks like the set for a Hammer horror movie and is said to have inspired Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula). However, the most famous personalities are buried in the East Cemetery and include Karl Marx, Sir Ralph Richardson, Mary Ann Evans (pen-name George Eliot) and comedian Max Wall.
Address: Swain's Lane
Phone: (020) 8340 1834
Open: East Cemetery Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat, Sun 11-5 (4 in winter). West Cemetery, admission by tour only; Sat-Sun 11-4 each hour, Mon-Fri tours at 12, 2, 4. Nov-Feb tours at weekends only 11-3
Restaurant: Café Mozart, 17 Swain's Lane (Inexpensive)
Metro: Highgate/Archway
Accessible: The East Cemetery is nearly all freely accessible. The West is partly accessible
Admission: East Cemetery cheap, West Cemetery cheap/moderate.
Practical: No children under eight in West Cemetery
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