How to visit Highgate Cemetery, London

January 19th, 2010 admin

Visiting a cemetery in London may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but there are more than 850 famous people buried in Highgate , ranging from the grandfather of communism Karl Marx to author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams . Although the majority of plots were bought up in the Victorian era, burials still take place, which included the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko , who created international shockwaves in the UK in 2006, when…


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