Bunhill Fields Burial Ground

My new favourite spot either before work or during lunch to relax and enjoy the area. This is a great place to people (or squirrel) watch, take in the fresh air, and admire the (morbid) history with all of the headstones.

A lovely place to walk through
& contains the grave of John
Bunyon 1688, the author of the
Pilgrims Progress.
There is also the gravestone of William
Blake & his wife, nearby, but Blake’s body was later
removed & interred in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey

Great little cut through from City Road to Whitecross Street through the middle of a burial ground — the large green space has lots of shade from some fantastic trees — a favourite place when the kids were younger for picnics and ball games at the weekend — during the week on sunny days it is a popular place to sit and eat a sandwich. A real gem of a green space.

The city of London is not a very peaceful place, so to find this little park was a breath of fresh air.
A bonus is it is a cut-​through to white cross market, which is a street full of food vans, making it simple to have the convenience of ready-​made food with the peace of a park.

Delightful parklike resting place of William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Defore, among other English Nonconformists. I stumbled upon this whilst seeking another place entirely and spent some pleasant time contemplating graves.

Bunhill fields is one of my favourite places in this part of town: it’s surprisingly peaceful and very pleasant to walk through or sit in. I particularly like walking through on a crisp wintery morning when it’s deserted (apart from the bloke who always seems to be there feeding the squirrels).
Scientists and mathematicians may be interested to know that Thomas Bayes (of Bayesian theory) is also buried here.

This is a rare open space in the heart of the city. From City Road you walk in along a pathway, paved in stone, between the fenced off graves. Further back there’s a large open area with benches around, great as a place to eat your lunch in the open air. There’s some lovely trees, and some of the graves are worth a look
In fact its also historically significant. The name is thought to originally mean ‘bone hill’, and it’s been a burial site for over a thousand years. It’s always been a non-​conformist burial site, and has connections with the nearby Wesley Chapel and Quaker Gardens. Several notable non-​conformists are buried there: artist William Blake, and authors Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan among them.
As I mentioned most of the graves are fenced off. The graves I’ve mentioned are in the open areas. A leaflet with a map of graves is available from the attendant’s hut in the middle of the grounds. They are also starting guided walks soon: every Wednesday at 12.30 from 7^th May to 21^st August, charge £5.

Superkleiner unspektakulärer Friedhof.
Vielleicht so groß wie ein halbes Fußballfeld und nahezu ausschließlich mit Steintafeln als Grabsteine. Auch die Gräber von William Blake, John Bunyan und Daniel Defoe sind äußerst schlicht und kaum erwähnenswert.
Größe: sehr klein
Alter: 19. Jh.
Skulpturen: keine