Victorian London - Death and Dying - Cemeteries - Highgate

HIGHGATE
from Thomas Miller, Picturesque Sketches of London, 1852

HIGHGATE AND KENTISH TOWN CEMETERY, consecrated May 20, 1839, lies immediately below Higbgate Church. It has a Tudor gate-house and chapel, and catacombs of Egyptian architecture; the ground is laid out in terraces, tastefully planted; and the distant view of the overgrown Metropolis, from among the tombs, is suggestive to a meditative mind.

John Timbs, Curiosities of London, 1867

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see also Bartlett's London by Day and Night - click here

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