Highgate Cemetry - London - Things To Do Reviews

Not much interested in a place that celebrates dead people I first went there in 1999 on the advice of my cousin, just because and fell in love with the space.  Go to the side of the cemetry that  doesn't house Carl Marx.  Small tours of only 12 people are taken hourly by volunteers as the cemetry is all overgrown and is hazardous to those not knowing their way around.  Depending on who takes you around you will learn about why the monuments on the graves are so.  There is a delightful hound dog, carved in stone, that rests on his master's burial site.  Learn the significance of the artifacts placed by the Victorians on the graves.  It is a place of reflection, wild and overgrown, the Jewish section has an enormous cedar tree in the centre.   The tour will take about an hour and cost about 6 pounds.