A plaque told me that this was the site of the Crossbones Graveyard, from late medieval times an unconsecrated burial site for prostitutes – and later, paupers – until its closure in the 19th ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

This is the Cross Bones graveyard on Redcross Way: a medieval burial ground, briefly a fairground, eventually turned into a Transport for London storage yard, and now a shrine to the 'outcast dead ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - It may seem somewhat grisly, but for author John Constable, paying tribute to the "outcast dead" buried at Crossbones Graveyard in London's Borough of Southwark, has been part ...

A few minutes from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a unique ceremony takes place every month. The Crossbones Vigil follows no particular religion and commemorates no powerful or famous people.

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: Remembering London’s outcasts ...

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.