Highgate Village

I took a guided tour of Highgate- an expensive area of London that shares the same hill as Hampstead village. The two are separated by Hampstead Heath. (See my earlier blog on Hampstead). It's a very desirable part of London to live in as it has a village like atmosphere, but you are only 20 minutes or so from Central London.

Some typical houses in Highgate- plaque is to Charles Dickens who stayed there for a few days.
Another typical house- would likely set you back about a million pounds

The house where the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died of an opium overdose

The church where Coleridge is buried

An example of some former almshouses for the poor- built during the Victorian times

Some early Georgian cottages

The chapel of Highgate School- a posh boys' school. T.S. Eliot taught here briefly.

The entrance to Highgate cemetary- very famous, Karl Marx among others are buried here.

The road from the cemetary back to Highgate village (Remember this is actually in London).