Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live.
| FactSnippet No. 935,776 |
13 Facts About Highgate
2.
Highgate is perhaps best known for the Victorian Highgate Cemetery in which the Communist philosopher Karl Marx and the novelist George Eliot are buried, along with many other notable people.
| FactSnippet No. 935,777 |
3.
Highgate gets its name from these hunting grounds, as there was a high, deer-proof hedge surrounding the estate: 'the gate in the hedge'.
| FactSnippet No. 935,778 |
4.
Hampstead Lane and Highgate Hill contain the red brick Victorian buildings of Highgate School and its adjacent Chapel of St Michael.
| FactSnippet No. 935,779 |
5.
Highgate New Town is a post-war estate adjacent to the cemetery, designed by Camden Council with similarities to the Alexandra Road estate.
| FactSnippet No. 935,780 |
6.
The Boundary Commission report of 2003 recommended removing the Camden part of Highgate from the remainder of that constituency and joining it with Kentish Town and Holborn to the south in order to form an enlarged Holborn and St Pancras constituency from the 2010 general election.
| FactSnippet No. 935,781 |
7.
Since 1983 the northern half of Highgate village has been part of the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
| FactSnippet No. 935,782 |
8.
Highgate is known for its pubs which line the old high street and surrounding streets.
| FactSnippet No. 935,783 |
9.
On Friday 26 August 1988, Michael Williams, a 43-year-old father from Highgate who worked for the Home Office in Pimlico, disappeared while travelling back home after an employee social.
| FactSnippet No. 935,784 |
10.
Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Communist philosopher Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, Radclyffe Hall, Joseph Wolf and singer-songwriter George Michael.
| FactSnippet No. 935,785 |
11.
In Victorian times St Mary Magdalene House of Charity in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes—"fallen women"—where Christina Rossetti was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870.
| FactSnippet No. 935,786 |
12.
Highgate's home became a place of pilgrimage for figures such as Carlyle and Emerson.
| FactSnippet No. 935,787 |
13.
Highgate died here on 25 July 1834 and is buried in the crypt of nearby St Michael's Church.
| FactSnippet No. 935,788 |