Highgate East, London, 2018

Highgate East Cemetery

Visited October 2018

The Eastern side of Highgate Cemetery in north London is not as overgrown as the West Cemetery. Although there's an entry charge to it (or included in the cost of a west cemetery tour), once in you can wander freely around, following the map of important burials if you wish.

This side of the cemetery, in use since 1860, contains Victorian burials, and modern ones as it's still in use for burials and memorial plots. It's probably most famous as being where Karl Marx is interred - you can see both his original burial plot and current one as you go round. Don't come here looking for solitude, it's quite the tourist destination now, but if you go off the main paths, and in particular away from the corner where Marx is buried, it's not too bad. Some of the memorials are quite splendid, although nothing as huge as the mausoleums of the West cemetery!