Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
London’s first great Victorian cemetery, Kensal Green opened in 1833, modelled on Paris’s Père Lachaise and built to ease overflowing city churchyards. Its reputation was made a decade later when a royal duke chose to be buried there instead of at Westminster, and high Victorian society followed — engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel is among those buried here. It’s free to walk in daily, no ticket needed, though the catacombs beneath are only seen on a paid Sunday tour. Grand Union Canal runs along its southern edge.
