Highgate is a suburban area of north London, at the northeastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Until the late 19th century it was a village outside of London.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of Groundsel and Chickweed Sellers. (Volume 1): "I gets the nettles at Highgate. I don’t do much in the nettle line—there ain’t much call for it."

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "The localities where these men "catch," are the neighbourhoods of the places I have mentioned as their residences, and at Holloway, Hampstead, Highgate, Finchley, Battersea, Blackheath, Putney, Mortlake, Chiswick, Richmond, Hampton, Kingston, Eltham, Carshalton, Streatham, the Tootings, Woodford, Epping, Snaresbrook, Walthamstow, Tottenham, Edmonton—wherever, in fine, are open fields, plains, or commons around the metropolis."

Phase 2 

Of Two Orphan Flower Girls. (Volume 1)