In order to enhance our staycation, Ive bought a couple of walking guides – one was ‘Walking Literary London. I suggested to Mark we would do a walk in Highgate on the 1st Bank Holiday. Weather forecast on the 1st Bank Holiday wasnt promising; so we decided to do on Sunday, 2nd May.
We started the walk from Parkland Walk at Muswell Hill and walked towards Highgate Wood. We had a picnic lunch at Highgate Wood before starting the trekking course around Highgate village.
Quite a few shops and were opened up on Highgate High Street as of 2nd May. After leaving Highgate Station, we turned right and walked uphill on Jackson Lane. I noticed that there were a number of beautiful, stylish houses and modernist houses in Highgate. This charming residential suburban residential area seemed to have attracted a number of literary figures – J. B. Priestly, John Betjeman and Samuel Taylor Coleridge – and we found these peoples blue plaques while strolling through the Highgate village. We also found a very distinguished architectural church building, Highgate School where famous literary figures like Gerald Manley Hopkins and John Betjeman attended. On top of
that, we were shown famous buildings around Pond Square – Highgate Literary Scientific Institute, Old Hall where novelist Rumer Goddon lived; St Michael Church where Coleridge was buried.
We then walked down on Highgate West and found No.31 the childhood home of John Betjeman. Just opposite the celebritys childhood home, we found the gated residential street, Oakeshot Avenue. We thought this residential street was shut while seeing a number of official signs in conjunction with Covid 19. Oakeshot Avenue had a number of mock tudor houses and residential flats. By standing on the top of the hill, all residents are deserved to have breathtaking views of the central London. Oakeshot Avenue led us to Highgate Cemetery. I didnt expect that we would be asked to pay for the entry to the cemetery; Mark had brought his debit card and paid for the entrance fees for me. The East Cemetery looked similar to Jewish Cemetery in Prague, which we visited a few years ago. We saw some famous peoples graves like Karl Marx and William Foyle, the founder of Charing Cross Bookshop, Foyles.
We were asked to pay for the entry to the cemetery where a lot of important peoples ashes were buried.
beautiful flowerbeds and trees and shrubs and historic house, Lauderdale House. Afterwards, we walked down Highgate Hill towards Archway Station. We took the No.41 bus to Wood Green.
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