Highgate is a leafy residential area with quaint tea rooms, gastropubs and fine 18th-century buildings. The village is both niche and quirky and home to a great selection of shops, restaurants and gothic cathedrals. Famalies with young children are known to feed the ducks in neighbouring Waterlow Park, home to Lauderdale house, a graceful old manstion that hosts exhibitions and concerts.

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