Category: Britain

The Kensal Green Cemetary of London

The Kensal Green Cemetary of London was one of several big cemetaries builtin 1832 to discourage people from burying their dead in inner city church graveyards. This is because the church graveyards were smelly, crowded and breeding disease and epidemics. Today it comprices 72 acres and is home to 65,000 graves and 250,000 internments. It spans two boroughs including Chelsea and Kensington. It has many […]

Britain

The Old Bunhill Fields Cemetery

Bunhill Fields Cemetary in London is one of the oldest and most famous cemetaries in all of the U.K. mostly because it is the burial place of what, back then, were called the Non-Conformists. This included poets and writers of reknown, such as William Blake who was considered a pagan back then, that were “outside of society.” The site also includes a lot of dissenters […]