Highgate
Highgate is an area of north London, which is divided among three London boroughs: Haringey in the north and east, Camden in the south and west, and Islington in the south and east.
Highgate is an area of north London, which is divided among three London boroughs: Haringey in the north and east, Camden in the south and west, and Islington in the south and east. It lies at the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, 4.5 mi (7 km) north-north-west of Charing Cross.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Highgate
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 25 km · London Luton (LTN), 37 km · London Stansted (STN), 44 km
- London → Highgate7 km · quickest by road, 35 min · £0.5–1
- London, Essex → Highgate7 km · quickest by road, 35 min · £0.5–1
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Highgate157 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £17–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Highgate
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Highgate. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.
From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Highgate – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Highgate
Highgate is 5 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.