Quirks & Curiosities

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground

The name is actually a corruption of “Bone Hill”, as the number of bodies transported to this unconsecrated ground during The Plague was so vast the ground became elevated. Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan and William Blake are buried here, and today it serves as a quiet oasis of calm surrounded by the busy roads of London. It is quite astounding to think that there are over 120,000 bodies buried here