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3 unusual facts about Highgate Cemetery


Edward Richard Woodham

He died on 12 December 1886 aged 55 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery#Interments(grave number 27283 in Square 121).

John Landseer

Landseer died in London on 20 February 1852, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery

John Zarnecki

In 1961, the school gave its pupils a day off to witness the first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, visiting the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery nearby.


Alfred Lamert Dickens

Alfred was buried at Highgate Cemetery, near to his father John, and then Charles took the family with him to his country home at Gads Hill Place in Kent, finding a farmhouse nearby for them to live in while he found them a home in London.

Parks and open spaces in London

Some cemeteries provide extensive green land within the city — notably Highgate Cemetery, burial place of Karl Marx and Michael Faraday amongst others.

The Clue!

The game's list of locations includes many of actual historical places and buildings such as Victoria station or Karl Marx's Tomb at Highgate Cemetery along with some fictional ones.


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