• Bunhill Fields is a burial ground in the Islington district of north London, used as a cemetery from 1665 to 1854.
  • During the bombing of London by the German Luftwaffe in 1942 Bunhill Fields was heavily damaged in 1960 restoration work was therefore carried out.
  • Bunhill Fields. Description. Bunhill is a corruption of 'Bone Hill', and the area was the site of burials for upwards of a thousand years.
  • At some point the land was made over to the City of London, which, in 1661, leased Bunhill Fields to a certain Mr Tindal for a period of fifty-one years.
  • From macabre origins to the burial place of some of Britain’s greatest thinkers, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground is packed with stories.
  • Image courtesy of Bunhill Fields 1/1. ... The historical burial ground at Bunhill Fields is recognised as a Grade I listed historic landscape.
  • In Medieval times, Bunhill Fields was nothing more than a four acre plot in the sprawling fields that surrounded the City of London.
  • John Bunyan, burial, Bunhill Fields Among those commemorated at Bunhill are the extraordinary poet, printer and painter William Blake (1757-1827)...
  • Bunhill Fields is a former Dissenters' burial ground of four hectares, bounded by City Road to the east and Bunhill Row to the west.
  • Bunhill Fields is a cemetery located in the United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Islington, north of the City of London...