Bunhill Fields

Bunhill Fields on the edge of the City is a historic burial ground that for centuries served nonconformists who fell outside the established Church of England. Among the thousands interred here are the writer John Bunyan, the poet and artist William Blake, and the author Daniel Defoe, whose graves draw literary pilgrims. Closed to burials in the mid-nineteenth century, it survives as a walled green space of leaning gravestones and mature plane trees, a quiet refuge amid the surrounding offices.