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A stone's throw east of Hampstead Heath, Highgate Village has a number of 16th- and 17th-century mansions and small cottages, lining three sides of the now-pondless Pond Square. Its most outstanding feature, however, is this beautiful cemetery, laid out around a huge 300-year-old cedar tree and laced with serpentine pathways. The cemetery was so popular and fashionable in the Victorian era that it was extended on the other side of Swain's Lane in 1857. The most famous grave is that of Karl Marx, who died in Hampstead in 1883; his grave, marked by a gargantuan bust, is in the eastern cemetery. In the old western cemetery -- accessible only by guided tour, given hourly in summer -- are scientist Michael Faraday and poet Christina Rossetti.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Highgate
, England
Highgate Cemetery
A stone's throw east of Hampstead Heath, Highgate Village has a number of 16th- and 17th-century mansions and small cottages, lining three sides of the now-pondless Pond Square. Its most outstanding feature, however, is this beautiful cemetery, laid out around a huge 300-year-old cedar tree and laced with serpentine pathways. The cemetery was so popular and fashionable in the Victorian era that it was extended on the other side of Swain's Lane in 1857. The most famous grave is that of Karl Marx, who died in Hampstead in 1883; his grave, marked by a gargantuan bust, is in the eastern cemetery. In the old western cemetery -- accessible only by guided tour, given hourly in summer -- are scientist Michael Faraday and poet Christina Rossetti.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Highgate
, England
