Visit Highgate Places

Welcome to Visit Highgate Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Highgate

  

Highgate Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Highgate

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Highgate history

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Historically, Highgate adjoined the Bishop of London’s hunting estate. The bishop kept a toll-house where one of the main northward roads out of London entered his land. Highgate Hill was the route of the first cable car to be built in Europe. The local tube station was used as a bomb shelter during World War II.

You can visit Highgate places with Walkfo Highgate to hear history at Highgate’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Highgate has 422 places to visit in our interactive Highgate map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Highgate, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Highgate places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Highgate & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 422 audio facts unique to Highgate places in an interactive Highgate map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Highgate Places Map
422 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Highgate historic spots	Highgate tourist destinations	Highgate plaques	Highgate geographic features
Walkfo Highgate tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Highgate

  

Best Highgate places to visit

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Highgate has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Highgate’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Highgate’s information audio spots:

Sainsbury’s, Camden Sainsbury’s supermarket, Camden is the first purpose built supermarket to be Grade II listed for its futuristic architecture. It was completed in 1988, on the site of the former Aerated Bread Company Camden Town bakery.

Andover Estate Andover Estate, in Holloway, North London, is a large Islington London Borough Council housing estate . It is flanked by Hornsey Road (west), Seven Sisters Road (south), Durham Road (east) and Durham Road . It falls into the N7 postcode district of London .

Manor House, London Manor House, also known as Woodberry Down, is an area of North London in the northwest corner of the London Borough of Hackney. It lies immediately east of Finsbury Park, north of Stoke Newington, west of Stamford Hill and Seven Sisters, and south of Harringay. The construction of the Seven Sisters Road gave rise to the alternative name Manor House Crossroads.

Highbury New Park Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington . It runs from Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove in the south .

Langham Working Men’s Club Langham Working Men’s Club is a traditional working men’s club in the north London neighbourhood of Harringay. It is located in north London’s north-east London neighbourhood Harringay, north London.

Whittington Stone The Whittington Stone is a monumental stone and statue of a cat at the foot of Highgate Hill, a street in Archway . It marks roughly where it is recounted that a forlorn Dick Whittingon heard Bow Bells ringing from 4+1/2 miles (7.2 km) away .

Market Estate Market Estate is named after the Metropolitan Cattle Market which operated on the site until the 1960s . After slaughter the carcasses of cattle and sheep were sent by underground trains to Smithfield Market to be traded . Three of the six blocks are named after breeds of animal that were traded in the market: Tamworth (pigs), Kerry (cows) and Southdown (sheep)

Metropolitan Cattle Market The Metropolitan Cattle Market (later Caledonian Market) was built by the City of London Corporation and opened in June 1855 . The market was supplementary to the meat market at Smithfield and was established to remove the difficulty of managing live cattle at that latter site .

St Joseph’s Church, Highgate St Joseph’s Church is a parish of the Catholic Church on Highgate Hill, in the Diocese of Westminster, London . It was founded by the Passionist Congregation in 1858 . It is a grade II listed building .

Highbury Park, London Highbury Park is a street in Highbury, London . It runs from Blackstock Road in the north to Highbury Grove in the south .

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