London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries
The city’s Magnificent Seven are private cemeteries built in the 19th century to help alleviate overcrowding in the capital’s burial grounds. Today, many of them have become fascinating places to visit with their range of architecture, unique natural habitats and intriguing stories of London’s past told through cemetery 'residents'.
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Death & DisastersAbney Park Cemetery
The only Magnificent Seven cemetery that doubles as a tree garden
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Death & DisastersBrompton Cemetery
A garden cemetery where artists, scientists and a Suffragette lay in peace
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Death & DisastersHighgate Cemetery
London’s most famous graveyard, where the tomb of Karl Marx attracts fans, critics and the curious
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Death & DisastersKensal Green Cemetery
How a prince made this graveyard a desirable resting place for the Victorian dead
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Death & DisastersTower Hamlets Cemetery
Known locally as Bow Cemetery and the last of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries to be built
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Death & DisastersWest Norwood Cemetery
One of south London’s Magnificent Seven – with a touch of ancient Greece
