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2 unusual facts about Bunhill Fields


Bunhill Fields

So many historically important Protestant Nonconformists chose this as their place of interment that the 19th-century poet and writer Robert Southey characterized Bunhill Fields as the "the Campo Santo of the Dissenters."

Hanserd Knollys

He died on 19 September 1691, in his ninety-third year, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.


Peter Shepheard

He became best known for many landscape projects such as London Zoo, Bessborough Gardens, Bunhill Fields in the City, the restoration of Vanessa Bell's garden at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex and various gardens in the United States including Central Green at the University of Pennsylvania campus and the Morris Arboretum.


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