Coleridge
& Highgate
In 1816 Coleridge
came to tea with a Dr Gillman in Highgate and stayed for 18 years.
The area is rich with reminders of his life here under the auspices
of Gillman and his family. From the summit of Highgate overlooking
Nightingale Valley, landscape of Kubla Khan itself, Coleridge was
given a new lease of life. And it was from here, his final resting
place, that he witnessed the funeral procession of Lord Byron..
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