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.

LONDON — In death, as in life, it is expensive to have famous people as your neighbors. There is hardly any space left at Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard in north London where Karl Marx, ...

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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, ...

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 ...

From dealing with George Michael fans to asking Parliament to exhume remains, it's eventful running Highgate's famous cemetery. The Victorian burial ground is the last resting place of many famous ...

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20:57, Sat, May 24, 2025 Updated: 21:07, Sat, May 24, 2025 A multi-million-pound project to "transform" a famous London cemetery has been met with opposition from families who don't want a ...