Highgate Cemetery - London

The cemetery was founded in 1839. It appeared as a result of the reaction of the authorities to the increasing number of numerous unsanitary cemeteries at churches. This is how the “magic seven” of London cemeteries appeared, of which Highgate is the most famous and respectable. Highgate Cemetery can be called a pantheon - no less than 850 famous people are buried here. Here is the grave of the great scientist Faraday, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, and many other highly revered personalities in England. The names thanks to which the cemetery became famous are Dickens and Galsworthy, as well as Karl Marx. Interestingly, the history of the graves of Dickens and Galsworthy is different- they are actually empty. The ashes of Galsworthy were scattered over the fields of his native land, and the ashes of Dickens rest in Westminster Abbey. Also buried here is the criminal Adam Worth, a possible prototype of Professor Moriarty. #visitlondon