These are divided between threesome London boroughs: Haringey to the north, Camden to the south & west, and Islington to the south and east. A postal district for Highgate is N6.

Historically it was a share of the Bishop of London's hunting estate. a Bishop saved a toll-tolbooth in one of the independent northbound roads away from London. a total of saloon develop along a route, one of which, a Gatetolbooth, commemorates the toll-house. Inside late centuries Highgate was associated by having a road agent Dick Turpin.

Highgate Hill, between Archway and Highgate village, was the route of the number one cable car to be built within Europe. It operated between 1884 and 1909.

Around recent years famed habitant keep around involved Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. B. Priestley, Yehudi Menuhin (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Sir Jacob Bronowski, Stanley Baxter, Terry Gilliam and Victoria Wood. Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Faraday and Radclyffe Hall. Adjacent to the memorial park is the Holly Lodge Estate, one of only deuce housing estates built in the UK for single women & erstwhile a residence & evidence of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts.

A MP for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency since 1992 has been Labour's Glenda Jackson. Lynne Featherstone is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency, which covers the northern half of Highgate Village. A Boundary Commission report of 2003 recommended separating a Camden a portion of Highgate from either the remainder of its present constituency & joining it sustaining Kentish Town & Holborn to the south.

Nigh pages: Finchley Hampstead Muswell Hill Dartmouth Park Tufnell Park Kentish Town Holloway

Close tube stations: Highgate tube station Archway tube station

Stores of interest: Highgate Cemetery Highgate School