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Nov. 21st, 2025

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 Bunhill Fields is the Westminster Abbey of English nonconformity. There are some very famous people buried here.

The Victorians honoured John Bunyan with a catafalque and recumbent effigy.

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Daniel Defoe gets an obelisk-. Again it's Victorian.

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Just to the right of the obelisk is one of Blake's two gravestones. It says that he and his wife Catherine are buried nearby.

Two gravestones?

Yes. A while after that first stone had been erected someone did some research and believed they had found the exact spot. Hence this- which is 20th century...

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"I give you the end of a golden string
Only wind it into a ball
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall."

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