Highgate: village, cemetery, wood
Marx, Eliot, and Faraday are buried here. The village pub has been here just as long. Walked and written by the editor.

1. Waterlow Park
Three ponds, a Tudor manor, and the view south. Sir Sydney Waterlow gave it to the public in 1889 as 'a garden for the gardenless'. It still delivers.

2. Highgate Cemetery East
Free entry to the East Cemetery; the West (with Marx) requires a guided tour. The East has George Eliot, Michael Faraday, and the best of the Victorian statuary.

3. Highgate Village
The Flask pub, the old village pond, South Grove with its Georgian terraces. Expensive now but still recognisably the village it's been since the 14th century.

4. Highgate Wood
Ancient woodland — oak, hornbeam, and holly as understorey. The keeper's lodge has a café; the pitches at the centre are used by the same cricket club since 1905.

5. Highgate station
Northern line, High Barnet branch. The walk ends cleanly here — uphill most of the way in, all downhill back to the station.

Highgate: village, cemetery, wood