Highgate Cemetery is a cemetery

Cemetery

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 located in north London

London

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, England. It is designated Grade I on the English Heritage

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 Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England

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. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery.
The cemetery is located on both sides of Swain's Lane in Highgate

Highgate

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, N6

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, next to Waterlow Park. The Main Gate is located just north of Oakshott Avenue. The cemetery is in the London Boroughs of Camden

London Borough of Camden

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, Haringey

London Borough of Haringey

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 and Islington

London Borough of Islington

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.
The cemetery in its original form – the northwestern wooded area – opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries (known as the "Magnificent Seven

Magnificent Seven, London

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") around the outside of London.