Highgate Cemetery

About Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is one of London's great Victorian cemeteries with historic, cultural and wildlife attractions.

Features include Victorian buildings, chapels, catacombs, The Lebanon Circle and Egyptian Avenue, all of outstanding architectural importance.

Admission to the West Cemetery is by guided tour only. The East Cemetery can be viewed daily and there is an optional tour on the first Saturday of each month.

Highgate Cemetery Facilities

Opening Times Open daily. Opening times vary. Highgate Cemetery is closed 30 minutes before and during funerals and you may be asked to wait outside.

Highgate Cemetery Address

Address:
Swain's Lane
London
N6 6PJ
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8340 1834

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Prices for Highgate Cemetery

Adult (East Cemetery): £3.00 (CAD4.69)  per ticket
Student (East Cemetery): £2.00 (CAD3.13)  per ticket

Tickets can only be purchased with cash - no cards accepted.

Tours of the West Cemetery: £7 adults, £3 for children (age 8-16), £5 students. (Children under 8 not permitted in the West Cemetery.)

Location Information for Highgate Cemetery

Address:
Swain's Lane
London
N6 6PJ
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8340 1834
Public transport: Directions are posted at the station exit.

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Events at Highgate Cemetery

  • East Cemetery Tours at Highgate Cemetery

    Tour

    Recurring event

    A guided tour of the cemetery.

  • Lucinda Hawksley: The Dickens Family and Highgate at Highgate Cemetery

    Special Event

    13 Feb 2012

    This talk is to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth and how better than to have his and Catherine’s own great, great, great granddaughter, also a writer, speak about him. Lucinda’s illustrated Talk (including some rare images) will focus on the Dickens family and especially their connections with Highgate and the surrounding areas. Dickens was a regular visitor to the areas of Hampstead and Highgate and he used the area frequently in his novels. His wife Catherine is buried in Highgate Cemetery as are his father and mother and six other relatives including his baby daughter Dora, who died very suddenly. Her heartbroken father chose Highgate so Dora could be close to flowers and bird song.

  • Lucinda Hawksley: The Life and Death of Lizzie Siddal at Highgate Cemetery

    Special Event

    11 Feb 2012

    This is a unique and historic occasion as it is in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Lizzie Siddal’s death: she died on February 11th 1862 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery six days later. Lizzie Siddal was a nineteenth-century phenomenon: a working-class girl whose beauty made her the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s most celebrated, iconic face. Dante Rossetti, founder and leading light of the movement, painted and drew her obsessively a thousand times. She soon became a poet and artist in her own right. However, as his lover and finally his wife, Lizzie’s relationship with Rossetti was blighted by his infidelities and neglect. In despair, Lizzie resorted to laudanum to numb her senses. In 1862 she took an overdose and left a suicide note. Lucinda’s illustrated and vivid account of Lizzie’s meteoric but brief career and her tortured relationship breathes new life into the images of Lizzie frozen in time in galleries around the world.

  • West Cemetery Tour at Highgate Cemetery

    Tour

    1 Nov 2011 to 29 Feb 2012

    Each tour is for a maximum of 15 people on a first come, first served basis. It is advisable, especially in holiday seasons, to come at least half an hour before the scheduled time. Sundays are particularly popular and it is sometimes not possible to accommodate everyone wishing to visit.

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