Bunhill Fields Burial Ground — Attraction in London

An interesting place to visit at any time of year. Shady & leafy in the Summer & atmospheric in Autumn & Winter as the leaves fall & a low sun lights up the gravestones & tombs & the bare limbs of the trees & the iron railings cast shadows. Great place for some creative photography if you are so inclined. Unless you are attending a guided tour there are large sections of the burial ground that are non accessible , being railed off. One can walk straight through via the central path from City Rd. to Bunhill Row or vice versa . There is an area of park to one side with a central lawn area & planted with shrubs & furnished with benches to sit on. One tomb that you can get to is that of John Bunyan which stands alone on an open , paved area. No burials have taken place here since 1854 . It is thought likely that there has been a burial site here for about a 1,000 years . In latter times it became a place where non conformists were interred & as well as John Bunyan other famous people buried here include Daniel Defoe , William Blake & John Milton. If you have time , pay a visit to the home & Chapel of John Wesley just opposite the City Rd. entrance. Another small point of interest right across from the Bunhill Row entrance is Braithwaite House , a modern block of flats where the Kray twins were both arrested for murders they had committed. Their...

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Many of the well known names of Christian history are buried here. The cemetery is located across the street from (John) Wesley's Chapel in London, England. The most prominent grave is John Bunyan but there are many others as well. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was the author of Pilgrim's Progress. Isaac Watts, John Gill, Susanna Wesley and others are worthy of our remembrance.

Bunyan spent twelve years of his life in prison for refusing to obtain an official license for his preaching of the Gospel. During his incarceration he wrote his spiritual autobiography, "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" and his most famous work, "The Pilgrim's Progress." Pilgrim's Progress has been said to be the most published book in the world apart from the Bible. It is a spiritual analogy to the Christian life.

There is some controversy over whether Bunyan should be called a Baptist or a Puritan, but either way, he was a great man of God! (I personally consider him to be a Baptist though one with some doctrinal errors. He did practice believer's baptism, though he accepted into fellowship those who we baptized as infants.) (Photos: ‎August ‎31, ‎2019)

Also, I have one negative about this site. The attendant that was present when we went there was very rude and unhelpful. I don't know if that was ordinarily the case, but it was...

Lots of olden graves.

It was first in devoted use as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854, in which period approximately 123,000 interments were estimated to have taken place. Over 2,000 monuments remain, for the most part in concentrated blocks. It was a prototype of land-use protected, nondenominational grounds, and was particularly favoured by nonconformists who passed their final years in the region. It contains the graves of many notable people, including John Bunyan (died 1688), author of The Pilgrim's Progress; Daniel Defoe (died 1731), author of Robinson Crusoe; William Blake (died 1827), artist, poet, and mystic; Susanna Wesley (died 1742), known as the "Mother of Methodism" through her education of sons John and Charles; Thomas Bayes (died 1761), statistician and philosopher; and Isaac Watts (died 1748), the "Father of...