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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Highgate Cemetery is one of London’s most beautiful, and mysterious, places. The Victorian burial ground, built in 1839, is full of grand and overgrown gravestones, and is the final resting place of ...