Highgate collection of largely Georgian shops, pubs, restaurants and residential streets, interspersed with diverse landmarks such as St Michael's Church and steeple, St. Joseph's Church and its green copper dome, Highgate School (1565), Jacksons Lane arts centre housed in a Grade II listed former church, the Gatehouse Inn dating from 1670 which houses the theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse and Berthold Lubetkin's 1930s Highpoint buildings. Highgate also contains the Victorian cemetery in which the Communist philosopher Karl Marx is buried, and many other notable people. The village is at the top of North Hill which provides views across London: it is
Walking in London in Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet, connecting various green spaces along the way. This long route is designed to act as a link between the Capital Ring, which runs just north of the Heath through Highgate, and the London Loop. The Heath is grassy public space that sits astride a sandy ridge, which is one of the highest points in London, reaching . Running from Hampstead to Highgate, this ridge rests on a band of London Clay, that embraces ponds, meadows, recent and ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, and a training track, and it adjoins the stately