Highgate Cemetery guide Kevin Bourne says he enjoys sharing his fascination with funerary architecture with tour groups.(Dominic Schaefer Photography - Dominic Schaefer Photography) After an uphill ...

Victorian burial ground Highgate Cemetery is the last resting place of famous folk ranging from Karl Marx to George Michael.

If you could time-travel back to London in, say, the mid-1850s, you might find yourself strolling in Highgate Cemetery, taking in what had become a cutting-edge showpiece of the Victorian sensibility.

The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist pioneer, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery Heritage funding to help its conservation work ...

This is a lively place, with shops garlanding High Street, and clusters of Georgian and Victorian houses. But it isn't the life of Highgate that fascinates visitors. It's the dead. The 37 acres of ...

LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that’s weird, I find ...

During the middle of the 19th Century, London’s burial sites had a much-needed revamp and rebrand. Out went graveyards – small and grim churchyard plots in residential areas – and in came cemeteries, ...

Highgate Cemetery was one of seven cemeteries built in London around 1839, after Victorians realized burial conditions had become intolerable due to overcrowding. The population of London had almost ...

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