Explore Highgate Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Highgate plaques & local Highgate history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Highgate.
About Highgate
Highgate is a suburban area of north London at the northeastern corner of Hampstead Heath. It is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross. Until late Victorian times it was a distinct village outside London. Karl Marx and George Eliot are buried in the Victorian Highgate Cemetery.
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plaques Walkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Highgate history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Highgate plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Highgate’s physical Highgate plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Highgate the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Highgate plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 422 unique history facts in Highgate plus 222 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Highgate history map for you to explore.”