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  • 23 Feb
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    stockholmbloodbath: Highgate Cemetary, Highgate, London In the early decades of the nineteenth century London was facing a major crisis.  Inadequate burial space along with a high mortality rate resulted in a serious problem - not enough room for the dead.  Graveyards and burial grounds were crammed in between shops, houses and taverns, wherever there was space.  In really bad situations undertakers dressed as clergy performed unauthorized and illegal burials.  Bodies were wrapped in cheap material and buried amongst other human remains in graves just a few feet deep. Quicklime was often thrown over the body to help speed decomposition, so that within a few months the grave could be used again. The smell from these disease-ridden burial places was terrible. They were overcrowded, uncared for and neglected. The cause of this situation was that in the early 1800s London had a population of just one million people.  In the following years the population had increased rapidly and the death rate along with it. Very little new burial space had been put aside to cater for the growing numbers and by the early 1830s the authorities were stating that for public health reasons something had to be done. Parliament passed a statute to the effect that seven new private cemeteries should be opened in the countryside around the capital for the burial of London’s dead. These cemeteries were Kensal Green 1833, West Norwood 1836, Highgate 1839, Abney Park 1840, Brompton 1840, Nunhead 1840 and Tower Hamlets 1841. In 1836 an Act of Parliament was passed creating The London Cemetery Company. Stephen Geary, an architect and the company’s founder, appointed James Bunstone Bunning as surveyor and David Ramsey, renowned garden designer as the landscape architect.  A head office was opened at 22 Moorgate Street, London. The sum of £3,500 was paid for seventeen acres of land that had been the grounds of the Ashurst Estate, descending the steep hillside from Highgate Village. Over the next three years the cemetery was landscaped to brilliant effect by Ramsey with exotic formal planting, complimented by the stunning and unique architecture of both Geary and Bunning.  It was this combination that was to secure Highgate as the capital’s principal cemetery. A History of Highgate Cemetary I’ve wanted to go there ever since I read Her Fearful Symmetry. It really does seem beautiful. 
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    Highgate Cemetary, Highgate, London

    In the early decades of the nineteenth century London was facing a major crisis.  Inadequate burial space along with a high mortality rate resulted in a serious problem - not enough room for the dead.  Graveyards and burial grounds were crammed in between shops, houses and taverns, wherever there was space.  In really bad situations undertakers dressed as clergy performed unauthorized and illegal burials.  Bodies were wrapped in cheap material and buried amongst other human remains in graves just a few feet deep. Quicklime was often thrown over the body to help speed decomposition, so that within a few months the grave could be used again. The smell from these disease-ridden burial places was terrible. They were overcrowded, uncared for and neglected.

    The cause of this situation was that in the early 1800s London had a population of just one million people.  In the following years the population had increased rapidly and the death rate along with it. Very little new burial space had been put aside to cater for the growing numbers and by the early 1830s the authorities were stating that for public health reasons something had to be done.

    Parliament passed a statute to the effect that seven new private cemeteries should be opened in the countryside around the capital for the burial of London’s dead. These cemeteries were Kensal Green 1833, West Norwood 1836, Highgate 1839, Abney Park 1840, Brompton 1840, Nunhead 1840 and Tower Hamlets 1841.

    In 1836 an Act of Parliament was passed creating The London Cemetery Company. Stephen Geary, an architect and the company’s founder, appointed James Bunstone Bunning as surveyor and David Ramsey, renowned garden designer as the landscape architect.  A head office was opened at 22 Moorgate Street, London.

    The sum of £3,500 was paid for seventeen acres of land that had been the grounds of the Ashurst Estate, descending the steep hillside from Highgate Village. Over the next three years the cemetery was landscaped to brilliant effect by Ramsey with exotic formal planting, complimented by the stunning and unique architecture of both Geary and Bunning.  It was this combination that was to secure Highgate as the capital’s principal cemetery.

    A History of Highgate Cemetary

    I’ve wanted to go there ever since I read Her Fearful Symmetry.

    It really does seem beautiful. 

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      I’ve wanted to go there ever since I read Her Fearful Symmetry. It really does seem beautiful.
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