Highgate Cemetery








The cemetery in its original form (the older, Western part) was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 20th May 1839. It was part of an initiative to provide seven large, modern cemeteries to ring the city of London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards of individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a health hazard and an undignified way to treat the dead.
The primary inhumation at High gate Cemetery occurred on the 26th May, and was of Elizabeth Jackson, Roosted on a slope over the smoke and rottenness of the city, High gate Cemetery before long turned into an in vogue put for entombments and was tremendously appreciated and gone by. The Victorian sentimental mentality to death and its introduction prompted the making of a maze of Egyptian catacombs and an abundance of Gothic tombs and structures. The lines of quiet stone heavenly attendants have conceived observer to grandeur and function and in addition to some shocking exhumations. Combine this mystical aurora with the fact that there are eyewitness report of the dead rising from their tombs. People who live nearby there they always encounter spirits in the graveyard.  There’s even a story of a dead person coming out alive from their grave and people got so frighten and went to make a report of this in a police station.

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