Records of Cross Bones Graveyard date back to the late 16th century, when John Stow's Survey of London referred to the site as a "single woman's churchyard." A "single woman" was code for ...

A monthly vigil is held at a once-forgotten graveyard where the bodies of 15,000 paupers and prostitutes are believed to have been buried.

Cross Bones graveyard in Southwark was once the final resting place of those living in one of London's 'poorest and most violent slums', The Mint. The earliest recorded mention of the graveyard is ...

Cross Bones graveyard in Southwark, once the backdrop for one of London's 'poorest and most violent slums', The Mint, has a history as chilling as its name suggests. The first mention of this ...

A paupers' burial ground in south-east London, where thousands of prostitutes are thought to be buried, is set to be turned into a public garden. Cross Bones, which runs parallel to Borough High ...

London’s Cross Bones Graveyard dates back to the medieval era, and is the final resting place for some 15,000 paupers, prostitutes, and other “outcasts,” including children and infants ...

Crossbones Graveyard is a beautiful site on Southwark’s Redcross Way, a quiet road running parallel to Borough High Street. Here the atmosphere brims with scarred history, a place where London ...

But the city also has some lesser-known graveyards—Cross Bones Graveyard in Southwark is a mass burial site for medieval prostitutes, and Hyde Park’s Pet Cemetery is home to 300 dearly ...

At a medieval cemetery London's poor are being remembered, but elsewhere the city's dead are becoming crowded out by the living. NBC News’ Mo Abbas reports.

For example, as Bess Lovejoy reported for Smithsonian.com in 2014, London's Cross Bones Graveyard has unearthed a rich history of some of the poorest outcasts of British society—including the ...

THE Cross Bones Graveyard lies on a dingy street in south London. The medieval prostitutes buried there were much used and little loved; yet their graves have become a modest attraction. The ...

Crossbones Graveyard is a beautiful site on Southwark’s Redcross Way, a quiet road running parallel to Borough High Street. Here the atmosphere brims with scarred history, a place where London ...