Designed by architect Stephen Geary, Highgate Cemetery in north London, England serves as the final resting place for approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves spread across the West ...

London's historic Highgate Cemetery is set for an £18m regeneration after the local authority approved plans to improve the site. Camden Council has approved plans to overhaul the north London site as ...

Highgate Cemetery will make room for new graves near Karl Marx’s tomb and charge £25,000 for each one. The working cemetery and north London tourist site has secured £100,000 of National Lottery ...

One of London's historic cemeteries is set for an £18million regeneration following an intense row with grave owners over plans for a controversial new maintenance building. On Monday (November 3) ...

A bereaved daughter is outraged at plans to build a public toilet next to graves at Highgate Cemetery. Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust has submitted plans for an £18 million transformation of the ...

There is something bittersweet in the crumbling monuments that have fallen into disrepair. Moss creeps over the stones, vines tangle, and the tombs are engulfed by overgrowth as they are reclaimed by ...

Highgate Cemetery guide Kevin Bourne says he enjoys sharing his fascination with funerary architecture with tour groups.(Dominic Schaefer Photography - Dominic Schaefer Photography) After an uphill ...

The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist pioneer, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery Heritage funding to help its conservation work ...

20:57, Sat, May 24, 2025 Updated: 21:07, Sat, May 24, 2025 A multi-million-pound project to "transform" a famous London cemetery has been met with opposition from families who don't want a ...

• Camden Council has approved an £18 million, 25-year regeneration of Highgate Cemetery • The Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust dropped a controversial plan for a maintenance and toilet block after ...

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