After an uphill walk from north London's Archway Underground Station, I'm unconvinced by my shaky map-reading skills until the sudden emergence of hundreds of undulating graves proves I'm near the ...

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.

During the middle of the 19th Century, London’s burial sites had a much-needed revamp and rebrand. Out went graveyards – small and grim churchyard plots in residential areas – and in came cemeteries, ...

The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist pioneer, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery Heritage funding to help its conservation work ...

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 ...

There’s big news from beyond the grave. Plans to refurbish one of London’s most hauntingly beautiful landmarks have officially been approved. Highgate Cemetery, arguably the city’s most famous resting ...

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 ...

Global warming is threatening London's historic Highgate Cemetery, an overgrown oasis housing graves of notable figures from Karl Marx to pop star George Michael, its custodians say. Concerned at ...

Perched on a steep hillside peering down at central London, a Victorian graveyard, Highgate Cemetery, provides clues to long ago lives and is still in use today.Credit... Supported by Highgate ...