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Bunhill Fields Cemetery
City Road London EC1

This old burial ground, shaded by mature plane trees, is situated on the edge of the City.  Bunhill Fields was first set aside as a cemetery during the Great Plague of 1665. 

It was enclosed by a brick wall and gates but does not seem to have been used at that time.  

The ground was never apparently consecrated and twenty years later it became a popular burial ground for Nonconformists, who were banned from being buried in churchyards because of their refusal to use the Church of England prayer book. 

Bunhill Fields was soon known as ' the cemetery of Puritan England'.  Although much is now cordoned off, it is still possible to walk through and find monuments to John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake, as well as to members of the Cromwell family. 

The writer John Milton lived in Bunhill Row, on the west side of the cemetery, from 1662 until his death in 1674.  Some of Milton's greatest works were written here, including his famous epic poem 'Paradise Lost'. 

Across the road from Bunhill Fields is the Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House. 

Admission free

Opening Times

Open: Apr-Sep;   Mon-Fri  0 7:30-19:00 Sat, Sun 09:30-16:00 Oct-Mar; Mon-Fri 07:30-16:.00  Sat, Sun   09:30-16:00

Closed: 25/26 December, 1 January

 
 
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