For the first time, residents are being invited to take part in guided tours of Highgate Cemetery's eastern block, famous as the final resting place of the father of communism, Karl Marx.
From May 26, groups of up to 15 people will be able to walk through the grounds where the likes of Victorian novelist George Eliot, actor Sir Ralph Richardson, pianist Shura Cherkassky, optical innovator William Friese-Green, and the Australian artist Sir Sidney Nolan are also buried.
Tours will be run alongside the long-established guided walk of Highgate's well-wooded Western Cemetery.
People will be admitted on a first-come first-served basis, and tours are anticipated to last approximately one hour. Following the first on May 26, tours will also run on June 10 and 23, July 8 and 28, August 12 and 25.
Tickets cost £5 and visitors will be able to linger at the cemetery after the walk is over.
For more information, contact Highgate Cemetery on 020 8340 1834, or visit www.highgate-cemetery.org
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