Highgate Cemetery is open daily except Christmas Day and Boxing Day. We recommend first-time visitors take a guided tour. Please see the 'visit' page for all ticket options. Visit the Cemetery; View events; Plan a burial or memorial; Opening times March to October. Open daily from 10am to 5pm

Highgate Cemetery is still a working cemetery as well as being a popular heritage destination for visitors from all around the world. Following the collapse of its private owners, Highgate Cemetery was rescued by a charity, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust. The Trust receives virtually no government funding and must raise all its own income.

Highgate Cemetery was a private solution to a very public problem: how to dispose of the dead of the burgeoning metropolis? Over the years it has developed in a way its founders would never have expected Nature. In the scientific community, cemeteries are known as havens for life. The plants and trees are most visible, but there are also ...

Burials & funerals. Highgate Cemetery is owned and operated by the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, a registered charity. The Cemetery is still open for burial but, due to shortage of space, graves are sold only for immediate use, or to those over 80 or to the terminally ill.

James Bunstone BUNNING (1802-63) Architect to Highgate Cemetery; designer of the Coal Exchange and Holloway Prison ; Frederick DOVE (d. 1923). Director of Dove Brothers, major building contractors ; Stephen GEARY (1797-1854) Architect to the London Cemetery Company and founder of Highgate Cemetery ; Lisa Jardine (1944-2015) historian, academic ...

Highgate Cemetery is in two parts, the East side and the West side. Visitors may wander the paths, but must not for their own safety walk on or touch monuments. This means that if the person you are looking for is not buried in an accessible location, a location search is essential. Although the cemetery is divided into squares, there is no ...

Established by a private company, Highgate Cemetery was abandoned by its owners once it was no longer profitable, and eventually rescued by the charity which runs it today. The local authority had the opportunity to take over the cemetery but declined to do so. There are no regular public funds available to keep it running, so its future is in ...

It was not until 1836 that renewed attempts were made to establish a cemetery at Highgate. Although a number of the same people were involved, this time the proponent was Stephen Geary (1797-1854), also an architect. He had been among the unsuccessful competitors in the Kensal Green competition of 1831 and, like Goodwin, he must have decided ...

opened in 1839, Highgate Cemetery went into decline in the 1970s before being rescued by a charity, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust. Trustees wanted. Recruiting new trustees. AGM. Our annual general meetings provide our trustees with an opportunity to report to members on the activities and achievements of the previous year.

go to Highgate tube – it's a much longer walk!). Take the Highgate Hill exit. Then take the 143 bus two stops to Waterlow Park or walk up Highgate Hill. It’s then a five minute stroll through Waterlow Park to our gates. Allow 30 minutes to get from Archway tube to …