Highgate London Tour

I took a little walking tour in North London around the Highgate postcode: N6, around Highgate village and the surrounding area and made this video for anyone interested in the area.
This tour briefly shows the following areas and things:
- Highgate tube / underground station
- Jacksons Lane theatre and arts centre building (on Jackson's Lane, as viewed from Archway Road)
- Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("the sage of Highgate")'s house, at number 3 The Grove, Highgate, which was also the residence of LB Priestley.
- The Flask pub, where poets like Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats are said to have visited when they came by to see their fellow literary friend, Coleridge
- Highgate village centre
- Highgate school (where TS Eliot taught French and Latin)
- The picturesque Gatehouse Inn where Charles Dickens and Lord Byron are said to have visited for a drink.
- Pond Square (which no longer contains any ponds)
- Highgate's URC church
- Highgate High Street (featuring local shops and pubs like The Highgate Pantry, Grazyna, The Village Jewller, The Prince of Wales pub, Oxfam, BBC3 hairdressers, The Angel Inn, Limone, Face it and The Highgate Bookshop)
- Some classic red double decker London Buses
- Waterlow Park (featuring its tennis courts, wild blackberries, its 3 ponds: lower, middle and upper pond, its duck, pigeon and turtle residents, dog visitors, its playground, its Kitchen garden compelte with beautiful display of sunflowers and lots of veggies and flowers in the vegetable patch, Lauderdale House and its gardens including a little fountain)
- Saint / St Joseph's RC Church
- Highgate cemetery (shown here only very briefly - there are videos on youtube that concentrate and specialize on Highgate cemetery tours. This place is famous for its celebrity graves. Highgate cemetery burials of celebrities include: Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson and Christina Rossetti.)
- Views over London from up on Highgate Hill (like in the famous "London song" by The Kinks.) The views shown are looking eastwards towards Crouch End and also looking Southwards from near Holly Lodge Estate, down towards central London, like in the song by Ray Davies where the lyrics are: "If you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day, You can see right down to Leicester Square". So if you ever heard that song and wondered "where is Highgate hill?" this video shows you a bit of it and the surrounding area. In this video I'm not sure if you can quite make out Leicester Sq, but you can see the London Eye, the BT tower and a few other bits from the London skyline.
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I hope you enjoyed this tour of London's suburb of Highgate, Haringey!
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For a video tours of nearby attractions and places to visit, be sure to check out my tours of:
- Kenwood house: • Kenwood House & park: ...
- Hampstead: • Hampstead, London - Hi...
- Golders Green: • Tour of Golders Green,...
- Finchley: • View of Finchley Centr...
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Music used:
- Confessin' by John Deley
- The Bluest Star by The 126ers