Place:Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England

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NameHighgate Cemetery
TypeCemetery
Coordinates51.567°N 0.147°W
Located inHighgate, London, England     ( - 1965)
Also located inGreater London, England     (1965 - )
See alsoHighgate, London, Englandneighbourhood in which it is located
St. Pancras (metropolitan borough), London, Englandmetropolitan borough in which it was located 1900-1965
Camden (London Borough), Greater London, Englandborough covering the area since 1965


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Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.

An Act of Parliament was passed in the 1830s which allowed joint-stock companies to purchase land and set up large cemeteries outside the boundaries of the City of London. The "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries were all laid out about the same time (1832–41). As well as Highgate, the others are Nunhead, West Norwood, Kensal Green, Brompton, Tower Hamlets Cemetery and Abney Park.

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