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It is divided between three London boroughs: Haringey to the north, Camden to the south and west, and Islington to the south and east.
Historically it was part of the Bishop of London's hunting estate. The Bishop kept a toll-house on one of the main northward roads out of London. A number of pubs sprung up along the route, one of which, the Gatehouse, commemorates the toll-house. In later centuries Highgate was associated with the highwayman Dick Turpin.
Highgate Hill, between Archway and Highgate village, was the route of the first cable car to be built in Europe. It operated between 1884 and 1909.
In recent years famous inhabitants have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. B. Priestley, Yehudi MenuhinSir Yehudi Menuhin ( April 22, 1916 March 12, 1999), later Baron Menuhin of Stoke D'Abernon was an American-born violinist, violist, and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was a student of Louis Persinger, Georges (and later StingGordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), best known by his stage name Sting is an English musician and formerly bassist and lead singer of The Police. Biography Sumner was born in Newcastle, England to Audrey and Ernie, a milkman. From an early who bought Menuhin's old house), Sir Jacob BronowskiJacob Bronowski ( January 18 1908, Lodz, Poland August 22 1974, East Hampton, New York, USA) was the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man which inspired Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. Bronowski wrote a Ph. in algebraic geomet, Stanley BaxterStanley Baxter born 1926 May 24 in Scotland, is a comic actor most well known for his UK TV shows. In particular The Stanley Baxter Show on BBC and The Stanley Baxter Picture Show on ITV ran from 1963 to 1985. Baxter, Stanley., and Victoria WoodVictoria Wood (born May 19 1953) is a British comedienne, actress, singer and writer. She has written and starred in sketches, plays and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with songs of her own composition, which she accompanies on. Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx ( May 5, 1818 March 14, 1883) was an influential German economist, philosopher, social and political theorist. Although Marx addressed many issues in his career as a journalist and philosopher, he is most famous for his analysis of hist and Radclyffe HallRadclyffe Hall was a British lesbian, author of The Well of Loneliness''. Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Radclyffe.. Adjacent to the cemetery is the Holly Lodge Estaten 1798 Sir Henry Tempest built a country villa on the south-facing slopes of Highgate, London adjacent to Highgate Rise now known as Highgate West Hill. The estate lands included Traitor's Hill, reputedly where members of the gunpowder plot had met to wat which includes one of the very few housing estates built for single women and formerly the home of Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts.
The current MP for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency is Labour's Glenda Jackson, since 1992. Barbara Roche is the Labour MP for the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency, which covers the northern half of Highgate Village. The Boundary Commission report of 2003 recommended separating Highgate from the remainder of its present constituency and joining it with Kentish Town and Holborn to the south.
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