Highgate Cemetery is located within London, so it’s not really a day trip, but it will take you about half a day to visit and it doesn’t fit fully with any of my itineraries, so it made sense to include it here.
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery. It is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The cemetery in its original form—the northwestern wooded area—opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead.
Directions: Take the Northern Line (towards High Barnet) to Archway. Walk north on Highgate Hill. Walk left through Waterlow Park to the main entrance on Swain’s Lane. Please note there is often construction leading to closed subway lines.
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