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Can't say I know much about it but perhaps it depends on whose graves you are wishing to visit? According to Wikipedia, here's who has been laid to rest on the east and west sides:
East Cemetery
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other novels
Farzad Bazoft, journalist, executed by Saddam Hussein's regime
Jeremy Beadle, television presenter
Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses
Lucy Lane Clifford, British novelist and journalist, the wife of William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher, husband of Lucy Lane Clifford
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans - the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross), novelist, common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him
Paul Foot, campaigning journalist
Lou Gish, actress, daughter of Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish, actress
Robert Grant VC. Soldier and police constable
George Jacob Holyoake (Midland Social Reformer and founder of the Cooperative Movement)
Claudia Jones, black Communist and fighter for social justice
William Friese-Greene, cinema pioneer. The memorial is credited to Edwin Lutyens
Mansoor Hekmat, Communist leader and founder of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
George Henry Lewes, English philosopher and critic, common law husband of George Eliot and buried next to her.
Anna Mahler, sculpturess and daughter of Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler.
Karl Marx, Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist, and Economist
Frank Matcham, theatre architect
Carl Mayer, Austrian-German screenwriter of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and Sunrise
Malcolm McLaren, punk impresario / original manager of the Sex Pistols
Sir Ralph Richardson, actor
Ralph Miliband, left wing political theorist, father of David Miliband and Ed Miliband
Dachine Rainer, poet and anarchist
Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Canadian railway financier and diplomat
Herbert Spencer, evolutionary biologist and laissez-faire economic philosopher
Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the DNB, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Feliks Topolski, Polish-born British expressionist painter
Max Wall, comedian and entertainer
Opal Whiteley, American writer
Edward Richard Woodham, survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade and Chairman of the committee for the 21st anniversary celebration of the charge at Alexandra Palace in October 1875
Patrick Wymark, actor
West Cemetery
Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor
Beryl Bainbridge, author
George Samuel Bentley, printer & publisher of the London Standard Newspaper 1879-1890
Julius Beer, owner of The Observer and his 8 year old daughter, who the mausoleum was originally created for. This is the largest structure on site and has recently been restored to close to its original splendor[5]
Jacob Bronowski, scientist, creator of the television series The Ascent of Man
Robert Caesar Childers, oriental scholar and writer
Edmund Thomas Chipp, organist and composer
John Singleton Copley, Lord Chancellor and son of the American artist
Sir Charles Cowper, Premier of NSW, Australia
The family vault of Robert Monach and W H Crossland, in this vault are buried William Henry Crossland's parents-in-law (the Monach's), his brother, his wife, his mistress, his daughter and eldest son, though not Crossland himself
Charles Cruft, founder of Crufts dog show
David Devant, theatrical magician
Alfred Lamert Dickens, the younger brother of Charles Dickens
Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles Dickens
John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens, parents of Charles Dickens and models for Micawber and Mrs Nickleby
The Druce family vault, one of whose members was (falsely) alleged to have been the 5th Duke of Portland.
Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist
John Galsworthy, author and Nobel Prize winner (he was cremated and his ashes scattered, memorial only)
Stella Gibbons, novelist
Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness and other novels
James Holman, sightless 19th-century adventurer known as "the Blind Traveller"
Alexander Litvinenko, Russian dissident turned critic, murdered by poisoning in London
Christina Rossetti, poet
Frances Polidori Rossetti, mother of Dante Gabriel, Christina and William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Thomas Sayers, Victorian pugilist
Elizabeth Siddal, wife and model of artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Arthur Waley, translator and oriental scholar
George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor
Mrs Henry Wood, author
Adam Worth, criminal and possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty
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WEST! (If it's not too late, of course)
OK, so you won't be able to see Karl Marx there, but on the other hand part of Dracula was set there and your ticket is for a guided tour, so you get to hear a few stories about the people buried there. Also, it's overgrown and hilly and almost like a jungle, with some quite impressive architecture. The graves tend to be slightly older
The east side of the cemetary is interesting, but because you're left to your own devices it helps if you know who people are (I can't imagine Jeremy Beadle being of much interest to you, though I accept Malcolm Maclaren might be worth seeing).
And, Briggl, they don't charge admission to people visiting friends' and relatives' graves. I suppose it's just the same as churches charging admission to people going there to sightsee rather than to pray.
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