Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Highgate district. There is the Egyptian Avenue, next to which there are two obelisks, and behind them a series of monumental tombs. Extensive catacombs and a chapel were built in the cemetery. The eastern part of the cemetery can be visited individually, the western part only in a group with a guide.

Highgate Cemetery was opened in 1839 and operated until the 1970s. There were plans to liquidate it and replace it with recreational areas. Thanks to the activities of the Society of the Friends of the Cemetery, these plans were abandoned and the cemetery is successively restored.

They were buried here, among others Karl Marx, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy. In the older part of the cemetery, the so-called The White Eagle Hill has graves of Poles, mainly activists in exile in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, you can find the tombstones of Feliks Nowosielski, Kazimierz Rumsza and Feliks Topolski.