Take a winter wander through Highgate Cemetery

Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and winter can be a wonderful time for a wander with the mists and damp leaves creating a very atmospheric visit.

Tickets Alert: Night at the Kilmorey Mausoleum

On Halloween night, one of the UK’s finest examples of an Egyptian-style mausoleum will be lit up to glow in the dark.

The London Month of the Dead returns with spooky tours and talks

October is the month of the dead, and the annual festival of Death and the Arts will return with a month of tours, talks and events.

Nunhead Cemetery’s derelict lodge set for restoration

Plans to restore Nunhead Cemetery's former superintendent lodge have been approved by Southwark Council, and there's now a consultation on how the building will be used after its restoration

Crossbones Graveyard future secured

The long term future of the Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark has been secured after the housing development next to it signed a renewable 30-year lease with the local group, Friends of Crossbones.

Take a winter wander through Highgate Cemetery

Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and normally it’s open for guided tours only, but at the moment, weekends are open to freely wander around.

Opening Highgate’s West Cemetery to the public

Highgate’s West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and normally it's open for guided tours only, but they are now allowing people in to wander around freely.

London’s dead to be moved to Brookwood for HS2

The huge numbers of dead bodies that were removed from a gravesite behind Euston station to clear it for HS2 are to be reburied at Brookwood Cemetery, in Surrey.

Tickets Alert: First ever wander around Highgate’s West Cemetery

Highgate's West Cemetery is the famous half of the cemetery and for the first time since the 1970s, they are going to open it up to people - without going on a tour.

Novo Beth Chaim – the Jewish cemetery inside a university

Slap bang in the middle of an East London university can be found an old, and rather unusual graveyard.

Today’s the 50th anniversary of the Highgate Vampire

It's the evening of Friday 13th March 1970, and a mob break into Highgate Cemetery determined to deal with a den of vampires lurking in the graves.

West Norwood’s Victorian cemetery to be restored

One of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries, West Norwood is to be renovated following the award of a £4.6 million grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Tickets Alert: The London Month of the Dead

October is the month of the dead, a now annual festival of all things macabre and spooky. The month of the dead is a series of talks supporting London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries.

Tickets Alert: Tours of a Crematorium

To mark the 60th anniversary of Upminster's South Essex Crematorium they will be hosting a behind-the-scenes tour of the chapel and crematorium.

Going inside the Kilmorey Mausoleum

Hidden behind a high wall, and a small locked door can be found one of the UK's finest examples of an Egyptian-style mausoleum, and it is occasionally open to the public.

A memorial to over 500 unmarked children’s graves in Tower Hamlets

Over a 50 year period, at least 500 children were buried in unmarked graves in Tower Hamlets cemetery. Now a new monument to them has been unveiled in the cemetery park.

Foggy morning in a cemetery

It's a foggy Halloween morning, so where better than to spend it wandering around a graveyard?

A Month of Death, Decay, Zombies and Skeletons

As the evenings draw in ever earlier, October is the month of the dead in London, with tours and tales of spooky goings on in the streets and graveyards of old London towne.

Unbuilt London: The Pyramid of Death

What was officially known as the Metropolitan Sepulcher, but more widely as the Pyramid of Death -- was a proposed massive pyramid built on Primrose Hill, which would have stood a staggering 950 feet high.

Ticket Alert: Alchemy and Magic at Brompton Cemetery

The Chapel in Brompton Cemetery is once again hosting a series of talks, this year on the topic of alchemy and magic in London.

Body Snatchers Invade the Museum of London

In a couple of weeks time, the souls of the dead will roam the land on All Hallows Eve, but they will have to do so without the diligent assistance of the Resurrection Men, who in the early 19th century fell upon the corpses of the poor to exhume them from their paupers' graves.

Visiting the catacombs under Brompton Cemetery

Following my recent visit to the catacombs under South London's West Norwood cemetery, it seemed sensible to pay a visit to their counterparts in central London yesterday when they were opened for tours as part of the annual open day.

The Victorian Catacombs of South London

In the early 19th century, the graveyards in central London were becoming not just rather full, but also a bit of a health hazard - so in the 1830s laws were passed that banned the burial of new bodies with The City of London area.