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Highgate Cemetery - Telling Tales
Visitor Experience

Highgate Cemetery is open to visitors every day of the year, except Christmas and Boxing Day. There is open access on the East side and regular tours on the West.

So……you’ve trekked up Highgate Hill, or Swains’ Lane; you’ve paid your money and taken a tour, or marvelled at the Karl Marx monument; you’ve fled to Waterlow Park for a cup of tea, or a loo. What was the Highgate experience like for you? Were you given a warm welcome, or treated as though you were trespassing in someone’s back garden? Was it value for money, or a rip off? Come on, let us know!

And for those of you yet to visit here is a sample of its magic...


A montage of beautifully haunting images of Highgate Cemetery (West),
London, England - taken by Steve Johnson.