Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Rd, London Bit of a strange one this. Appeared to be used as a gay cruising ground the day I visited - lots of young men just nonchalantly hanging out and dodgy-looking older blokes with moustaches lurking on benches. I became paranoid that my camera would be misinterpreted and fled after taking only a few photos. Gorgeous place with some really ornate mausolea and impressive arched colonnades. Bunhill Fields, City Road, London, EC1 One of the oldest cemeteries in London, founded in the mid-17th century. Its original name was "Bonehill". The stones are mostly simple and closely packed, herded into inaccessible quadrants and surrounded by railings. Residents include William Blake, John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe. City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Road, London, E12 Enormous well-maintained cemetery, with miles of named roads, chapels, crematoria, catacombs, gardens of remembrance and its very own peaked-capped officials manning the gates. Many grand memorials, including whole flocks of angels. Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Rd., West Hampstead, London Phenomenally busy cemetery visited in January, with lots of freshly-dug graves scattered among the old stones. Dangerous time, winter. I reckon mourners, grave-tenders and hangers-on were coming through the gates at the rate of about one per minute - surprised they don't use the space for advertising... Highgate Cemetery (East), London Just one half of the legendary London graveyard, and it's quite a tourist attraction. (You need to go on a guided tour to get into Highate Cemetery (West).) Lurches from the ostentatiously shiny and well-kempt to the insanely overgrown. We saw a fox and a couple of matronly cats. Karl Marx's head is HUGE. Rest in peace, comrade. Kensall Green Cemetery, Harrow Rd, London This place is amazing - it's massive, stuffed with mausolea and enormous monuments and full of little signs telling you to watch out for disintegrating stonework, and that the whole place is a wildlife reserve. It also smells eerily of manure (so, what kind of wildlife....?) Willesden Lane Cemetery, Brondesbury, London Very calm wooded cemetery visited on a damp, mild autumn day. The rain and dark seem to have contributed a grainy indistict quality to these photos. While I was there, I kept thinking I heard footsteps on the carpet of dead leaves - but it was only the wind blowing more leaves down from the dripping boughs. Spooky, eh?