Highgate Cemetery

A walk around the West Cemetery of Highgate. Filmed in April and June 2014, and takes in most of the monuments restored/repaired under the restoration programme of 2010-2014. And some that were not repaired!

[@Figgatella]

Thank you for posting this beautiful tour of this wonderful cemetery. I would love to visit this one day!

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated

[@heatherbowlan9822]

Tamara Figge Hi this cemetery is so beautiful, but there's no information on where it is , and how old , I was wondering if you could tell me ? Thank you for your kindness , God bless you . I'm from Canada . ❤️

[@heatherbowlan9822]

Highgate Cemetery Hi just watching your beautiful video, I was wondering where this certainly was at ,and how old ? Thank you for sharing God bless you , I'm from Canada. ❤️

[@fbllxl5]

Highgate opened in May 1839 with the first interment of Elizabeth Jackson. It situated on Swains Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ. It comprises two cemeteries, the West was the above mentioned in 1839 followed by the East in 1854. The main entrances sit directly opposite one another. The movie is solely of the West cemetery and this is accessible only by guided tour. The East has an entrance fee but one is allowed to wander freely. All details can be found on the official website at highgatecemetery.org

[@damianjones7554]

@@heatherbowlan9822 hello Heather, Highgate Cemetery is located in Highgate, Swaines lane, London UK.

[@kumarsiva1426]

Lovely video - feels so calm 😮- thank you glad I found this - best cemetery video and place ever.

[@marieelena]

Thanks for the tour without music and commentary....just the sounds of nature,feels like Iam visiting there by myself!.. Love Highgate it's so Gothic and beautiful, I always wanted to visit the place!

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Those are the actual sounds of the cemetery. So happy you enjoyed it.

[@shariedanceinthedark1746]

Why would anyone dislike this? Thank you for putting this up. Does anyone else find this video calming?

[@wmlwest3382]

Absolutely wonderful cemetery. Also you captured the beauty, history, and peace of Highgate perfectly. Awesome Job

[@joannedarling6077]

I find it relaxing , love it

[@claudiadesoto2378]

Not all the talking , I could set all day there listening to the birds

[@toakasi6425]

Peaceful without the music 🎶 and thanks for the magnificent tour Highgate cemetery is a historical site to be preserved for the next generations.

[@aManWhoWantsEverything]

Never in my life I would’ve thought I would one day want to visit a cemetery this much

[@silkebeers]

Same

[@PaleHROse]

Absolutely beautiful, this is the way a cemetery should be filmed. Thank you!

[@FranklinRiera-o5x]

Gracias por compartir está visita de este cementerio qué es maravilloso y hermoso saludos desde Venezuela.

[@megan.ashford]

This walk about tour of the cemetery grounds is simply beautiful. Very finely and exquisitely captured. ....made even more wonderful by the sound of nature in the Background.

[@jettrink7510]

Awesome cemetery video 🪐

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you

[@ValHughes]

The vary first grave on the tour is James Selby, famous coachman and my great grandfather. I live in Australia now so it’s a very long way to visit him!

[@theresapierce3934]

The Beer mausoleum was built for, Ada Sophia Beer, who died at the age of 8 from Scarlet fever. Inside is a beautiful sculpture of an Angel enfolding her and raising her to heaven. Later Julius and other family members were laid to rest inside. Imagine what it would cost today to commission such a magnificent monument.

[@Thug-12Na]

Wat amazes me are those huge big tombstones how they were placed while so many graves around i keep askin myself how on earth was it possible to get it there upstairs to the grave it self and placed deep respect🙏🏻

[@claudiadesoto2378]

Love watching your videos, you let the sounds of nature very beautiful peaceful place

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you for your kind comment, it's very peaceful and relaxing in the cemetery. At the time I was annoyed my crunching footsteps could be heard, but it's been 10 years since I was last there, I quite like hearing them now.

[@KevinWilliams-c2p]

Very well made.. it's as if you went there yourself and just recorded what you saw thank you for the video!

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you. That's exactly what happened. 👍

[@ferencszabo3504]

Wow, mixed feelings here, at one hand its marvelous, on the other is spooky as hell! I thought I was not superstitious but I would not wander here at night for sure!

[@RuthShelton-ou4id]

Oh I would love to spend a night or two there!! Always being very respectful - of course.

[@mariemorgan7759]

Thanks for the video,I love Highgate cemetery! Since childhood I always felt I belonged in the Victorian era.🌹

[@vickicaber6089]

Me too had dreams of living in that era

[@onefeather2]

Haunting and Beautiful. Beauty and art even in death. Thank you for posting.

[@noelaremolacio8774]

I wish I could go back in our country in England together with my sister in law named Ate Alma...🎡

[@silkebeers]

Went there last year. Wanted to go there for a long time

[@ManuelaChristina1]

Very beautiful, peaceful cemetery. And you filmed it very nice, with respect for the deads. Thank you for sharing 💙

[@juliebeason9889]

Peaceful and serene

[@franciscoabrahamhorwitzl.j5991]

From the main entrance to the exquisite Circle of Lebanon and all the minor alleys, this Cemetery is a real masterpiece. It is an open air museum of funeral arts. Thanks for sharing.

[@martiwest1753]

Very beautiful video of a beautiful place. Im especially thankful you didn't use any background music. The birds are perfect!

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you. That is the actual sound of the cemetery

[@daveerickson9524]

Very nice. and no 'effin pseudo-music, just the birds singing. Thank you

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you to all of you who have contributed comments and have subscribed. Much appreciated

[@388Caroline]

Highgate Cemetery Love it. It’s a lot like mount Jerome in dublin🤔

[@RuthShelton-ou4id]

Thank you for letting people see your beautiful cemetery & even though we may be seeing it by a video we can still be very respectful & pay our respects and say a prayer or two for those who have passed on. 🫶🙏 We too will be gone one day.

[@theresapierce3934]

Beautiful Highgate, I was lucky enough to visit in 1984, we had a brief tour and then were able to explore on our own. It was still being cleared up and a very cold damp day which added to its melancholy feel. The next time I went in 2010, we went on the tour, but it was quite short.

[@marizolmc2282]

Precioso! Me encantan los cementerios antiguos!

[@simone222]

To me, Highgate is the most enigmatic, gorgeous, and historic of all renowned cemeteries I had been to. The West is my most favourite part. Thank you for taking me back once more through this lovely video. Greetings from SEA!

[@helenegagnon9036]

Absolutely stunning and spooky at the same time. Thank you, I enjoyed it very much.

[@Satanicprincess]

So very beautiful wish I could visit but live too far away,wow all those carved tombs, talented work built to last

[@Greatpyrman7]

Thank you so much...stunning video...like everyone said I love the actual sounds with no music or commentary. I have wanted to go here since I was 12 and fell in love with Hammer horror films. I am sharing this!..This is posted under my hubby's name I am Dina Dotson

[@joannedarling6077]

Such a stunning place now its be cut back ,its on my to do list ,.... love the 📹, just hearing the sounds of the birds ,so peaceful

[@Kalatrobe]

This video is amazing -- thank you so much! I used to visit often around 2002 and it was difficult enough to get the ladies to allow me to take a pic, never mind footage. Felt like i was taking a stroll with you. Love that you got up to Radclyffe Hall & Mabel B a couple of times..definitely very significant denizens. Thanks...X

[@fbllxl5]

Kala Trobe thank you. much appreciated

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

I find it mind boggling, the amount of money spent on building these sepulchres and tombs. Even allowing for the cost of labour back then, some of them must have cost as much, or more than a house, given that they're made of shaped and carved Portland stone, granite, marble etc, roofed in stone and designed to last for eternity. How much was an angel carved on your headstone? Or a sleeping lion? I suppose some of them must have been mass produced in some form, as I see angels bending over graves in other cemeteries, but that sleeping angel laying on a bed of tomb with all the ripples and folds like fabric. Unbelievable. The Victorian way of death indeed. Thankyou for such an interesting and inspiring film.

[@madgevanness4011]

I think the artisans who worked on them were very thankful for the work that enabled them to care for their families . I would like to know more about them.

[@RuthShelton-ou4id]

Whomever has whatever monument they probably worked hard in their lifetime - saved for the time of their passing to come or their dear loved one(s). Think of the fact that they can't the money with them -- they're also helping others to live by paying them to make their monuments--& the beautiful cravings which many carve their own small mark be it a mark they would be known for or maybe their name engraved somewhere on the carvings. Me -- if I have any money when I pass -- I'd like a headstone that might make someone smile. (On the tombstone ) "Quite up there ! I'm trying to sleep!" 😉 (Then have a smiley face & three bowls on top of my headstone - one for nuts, one for seeds and in the middle have a birdbath - 🐿️🐦🦉🐈 That way I'd have some beautiful animals that might like to come around and say "hi". And after I'd left $ in a trust fund to pay for the food/water & it wasn't honoured -- I'd spend some time haunting abit😂 till the animals were taken care of. Actually I'm an Army Vet and probably be in a Military Cemetery. Or maybe donate my body to science. Once our bodies fail in my belief we leave the body behind and our soul will be free to go into the light. What say you?

[@wlwolf8562]

Thank you so much for this amazing well done video! I love old fancy cemeteries.

[@scaramouche600]

I love Highgate Cemetery. Cannot wait to return some day. Stunning, thanks for video.

[@heatherbowlan9822]

ani is

[@adamwhite3347]

No music required works perfectly

[@chainsawkitten3766]

So pretty. Probably the coolest cemetery in the world.

[@jimmyhappysmith204]

Thank you so much for sharing the very complete video of this historic cemetery.

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

My pleasure

[@388Caroline]

Thank you for taking the time to do video this. I’m so interested in graveyards. Just saw one last week in Charleston.

[@joannedarling6077]

I love graveyards but I'm told I'm weird n morbid I don't like them for morbidly, I love the history they give us .

[@Woodland.Nook24]

Thanks for this! One of the most beautiful (and creepy) places ive ever seen! I would love to visit it myself one day😯❤

[@damianjones7554]

I visited Highgate cemetery back in the early 2000s, was a place I'd wanted to see for some time as it was featured in a few of my favourite hammer horror films. When I finally got to see the place I was rather shocked by the poor condition of some of the crypts and monuments, the place was also very overgrown with weeds and brambles. I think the work of 'the friends of Highgate cemetery' must be highly commended, this place is looking fantastic and some of the repairs undertaken couldn't have been an easy task, well done.

[@chocolatcats]

noooooooooooooooooooooo its fine as it is

[@cherylmason5840]

Thank you for uploading this walk 👍🏻 💌 I did this fascinating tour a few years back, and the friends of the cemetery guide, who took us on the guided tour, were so full of amazing historical facts , also on the nature in the grounds and architecture of some amazing stonework, they were fantastic. If you are ever visiting North London this is so very worth doing comfy walking boots a drink.... Time almost stops it is serene & tranquil.... With some history that's worth hearing and famous and not so famous people entered there 👊💪👄🤘💃🏻👓🎓🎩💍💼🍺⚽️🎾🏏🏊🏻🏇🎭🎤🎨🎹🎻⚓️🚂🛳📺📻🎙🎥📷☠ And after walk up the hill to a lovely warm pub 🤗🤓👍🏻 P.s not for the faint hearted as it can be quite graphic at times 🤔💀🙈

[@patrickclark2717]

I had the pleasure of going on a guided tour of the West Cemetery in 2017, your film brought back happy memories of that day.Thank you

[@NAOwen09]

Exceptional! Thank you!

[@marypaxton1902]

By far my favorite video to date!!!

[@turtleheninny]

what an absolutely stunning place. Thank you for sharing

[@loveserrano3587]

Beautiful cemetery love The birds sounds calm and nice place

[@anniemac4637]

Beautiful and wonderful ....such a lovely cemetery..

[@delprovino1158]

I have been there and it’s absolutely amazing and beautiful!

[@doraalessandra2518]

Adoro cemitérios antigos, quanto mais antigo mais eu gosto. Esse é belissimo, mas confesso que achei vc muito corajoso...entrar nas catacumbas, por corredores sombrios, e olhando os caixões expostos, tem que ter muita coragem. Um dia vou conhecer esse cemitério pessoalmente. Obrigada por postar.

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Você não tem nada a temer dos mortos. Apenas os vivos podem te machucar.

[@greggmcelhinney1228]

Wonderful video looks very atmospheric and interesting plenty of interesting tombstones to see

[@388Caroline]

Thank you for beautiful tour🙏

[@Decgyrrl]

Thank you for this very peaceful, relaxing tour

[@janaschmolinski7750]

Beautiful cemetery ... my ancestor Stanislaw Worcell is buried here ... rest in peace

[@garyeaton6172]

Amazing place perfectly done I want to visit myself now

[@fernandohenriqueromano9539]

Fascinante. ❤ Sou apaixonado por cemitérios. Obrigado pelo vídeo. 🇧🇷

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Fico feliz que tenha gostado.

[@fernandohenriqueromano9539]

@@TheHighgatecemetery ❤

[@moramzi6527]

Wow beautiful cemetery would love to visit this place, so nice and calm, just listen to ^nature and The birds 😍🙏😍🙏

[@peggybell4535]

It's kind of sad that all these souls are here god bless them all

[@dadodydo]

The most beautiful cemetery in the world. That fox at the beginning says it all....

[@mercedesscrivens742]

Thank you beautiful

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Thank you

[@myfragilelilac]

Such a beautiful place! Really have to visit!

[@amihaeseimarianaamihaesei2629]

Thanks for the video ! Fascinant !

[@martinkirby3100]

Awesome video of highgate cemetery it's a shame that some parts of it are overgrown and the whole place needs to be tidied up but a great video none the less thanks keep em coming

[@munnjean]

I played Benedictus two cellos while watching this video clip ,,, it was a most moving experience.

[@fcoaromero1192]

MUY HERMOSO Y GRACIAS A TI POR TENER ESA PACIENCIA DE GRABAR

[@chrislawson7983]

Great job. Thank you.

[@SandraNelson063]

Graveyards are haunted by the living.

[@NAOwen09]

Graveyards are to some; sacred... A place where reflection and contemplation can be afforded whilst remembering loved ones who have passed....

[@sandrarobert1456]

Sandra Nelson YES GRAVEYARDS ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING!!! THIS IS ONE PEACEFUL TOUR THAT I AM ENJOYING!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!!!!

[@garyeaton6172]

Sandra Nelson so true

[@joannedarling6077]

But Highgate is the most haunted by its residents ... and damaged by time n vandals

[@diem2643]

it so peace,beautiful place,i really want to be there

[@doltbezoar]

Stunning. A world treasure.

[@Janeearlephotography]

Visiting next Easter Monday 2018 and cannot wait

[@tigerlily7100]

Thank you for posting this treasure

[@kerrydavies4394]

I want to go on a tour of the West side, however I've been told it's a guided tour only, so no wandering?! Such a shame!

[@johnsaintvincent8406]

I like it very much you video. Congratulations.

[@strabefie1977]

I was there in 2017 on a guidet Tour, amazing Place.

[@RCALivingStereo]

think about this place 100 years ago, all you heard were birds, no jets flying over or sirens, still a beautiful place

[@thessferariza1595]

Turkeydoodlers yes very beautiful placeL.

[@bilebily294]

When I was 20, in 1999 I roamed these grounds,oh I wish to be 20 again

[@DiamanteDea]

[@justsayin69]

LoL Billy, you're not all that old now. I'm sure your rattley old 39 yr old bones could do it again.

[@myfragilelilac]

Such a special age that. Very lost I was. But im only 27 so. ;P still very lost.

[@jackmekauff3265]

@@myfragilelilac I roamed this cemetery in 1986 when I was 22. I will return in 2019 at 55.

[@myfragilelilac]

@@jackmekauff3265 Sweet!!!! The 80s was the shit. Sadly I was born in 1990. 😂

[@meeybat]

Wow this is beautiful

[@fbllxl5]

Meey Bat thank you, I appreciate your comment very much

[@meeybat]

fbllxl5 It's such a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing. I love cemeteries! I heard about this cemetery because of a vampire story. 😶

[@stephenborsbey4350]

love the sound of the birds too

[@EllaTrigger]

Now that makes me cry of those poor people they had a good life (uses phantom) but the place is beautiful homes for the ghost and spirits

[@ChurchyardsandCemeteries]

Just beautiful on my to visit list one day

[@marcosgarcia2643]

Recoleta in Argentina is even creepier!

[@tonyday7233]

A lovely walk.

[@smallfries3462]

Its beautiful yet eeire at the same time thank you for the video oh and do they have alot of paranormal activity here

[@RuthShelton-ou4id]

I would think that it depends on the person- if they're opened enough for trying to get EVP's which is recording sprite voices. One can just walk in the cemetery day or night (though night seems better) and just take some random pictures, you may or may not get 'ghost pics'. Only on TV do ghosts do things on 'command' for the most part. Good luck .'

[@MrAndyLocksmith]

The epitome of human civilization was reached by our great Victorian forefathers, we are now nosediving into the abyss. They were lucky, they died not knowing that which they created would in time be destroyed.

[@joaocezar9029]

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[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Muito obrigado 🙏

[@marianellacordova4265]

Pues qué cripta tan hermosa fina y elegante dan ganas de vivir allí lejos de tanta bulla y maldad que diseño tan espectacular Me Encanta

[@xx_blasphemer_xx8148]

Absolutely wonderful! I haven't watched the whole thing as i've never been so want to leave some as a surprise wen i do eventually visit

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Highgate Cemetery consists of two cemeteries on opposite sides of Swains Lane. The older and original West Cemetery, and the later extension the East Cemetery. The video footage is exclusively of the West Cemetery. This can only be accessed by a guided tour, prebook through the cemetery website: www.highgatecemetery.org.uk The East Cemetery is accessed by paying for a ticket at the main entrance and then you can wander freely. Nearest tube is Archway on the Northern Line. Hope you get t visit and enjoy. Happy you liked the video.

[@xx_blasphemer_xx8148]

@@TheHighgatecemetery fabulous thank you! I'll be sure to book a tour at some point 🖤 I'm waiting for this pandemic disaster to carm down even more but wen things get back to normal then I'll be sure to visit. I can't wait!

[@mercedesscrivens742]

Beautiful

[@wwb16]

Its worth noting that the filmmakers for Harry Potter and the goblet of fire used this cemetery as the inspiration for the little hangleton graveyard where voldemort is reborn

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Yes. I was there the day they visited.

[@wwb16]

@@TheHighgatecemetery but you that was just a film set right?

[@evilladollyz7602]

Awesome video.. Thank you

[@moonshot_72]

Thank you. My pleasure

[@jackydenin6489]

Qué precioso lugar...me encanta!!!!

[@fbllxl5]

Jacky Deñiñ ¡Usted debe venir a visitarnos!

[@jackydenin6489]

Siiiiiii!!!! Es uno de mis grandes sueños!!!!! Gracias!

[@garysweeney3625]

Were these crypts broken into because it looks like some have doors and others do not.

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Gary Sweeney most at some point we’re broken into, but now have doors and locks. For the purpose of this video a few were left open and doors pinned back for ease of access with camera. If you have one crypt in particular which you refer to, places let me know whereabouts it is in the video.

[@CaledonianKittyOfficial]

Thank you for sharing this video. I've always wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery. I also find this video really relaxing.

[@ellietobe]

Don't they have someone to keep up the grounds and cut the grass......or weeds!! What is wrong with the families of these people?! They should be outraged at the condition of the place! People paid a lot of money to have their family members buried there! And the coffins out in the open to be vandalized! Hard to believe that people no longer care about such things.

[@normathomas8276]

Maybe there are no longer family alive to tend the graves

[@angelosdaughterc5223]

This is what happens when no one alive knows or remembers those buried in graveyards. It happens to all old graveyards. A photographer here where I live visited graveyards all over the state and published a book. There are lots of old graveyards abandoned and in ruin, or moved to make room for the needs of the living. Good argument for cremation, although I used to love wandering through them, too.

[@rubenherrera3852]

It went banckrupt in 1975 and closed. Friends of Highgate formed. Left as ....

[@jackmekauff3265]

4:17 the tomb of a man that was involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the murder, torture of POWs, civilian men, women and children.

[@cool4556]

i think, especially right now, we shouldn’t remove people’s memorials. all history is valuable history.

[@margaretmorris3229]

I have an ancestor originally buried in Windsor Chapel, may have then been moved to Highgate. I live in New Zealand. Is there an online list of burials.

[@reggiec2924]

When was this cemetery established? It is very tranquil and surely it has so much history attached to it. Thanks for sharing.

[@sagittarius7569]

The CD album cover of *Bram Stoker* Schizo - Poltergeist 20:12 is a *picture* from this cemetery

[@tonyburkhart888]

Although the camera work and editing could be improved this is an impeccably well done video.

[@TheHighgatecemetery]

Says him with no videos