Bunhill Fields

This cemetery just outside the City walls has been a burial ground for over 1000 years (indeed ‘Bunhill’ supposedly comes from the rather macabre historical name for the area –‘Bone Hill’). It’s probably the best-known ‘dissenters’ (ie non–Church of England) cemetery in the country. Here you can see the graves of such literary giants as Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan and William Blake. It’s a lovely place for a stroll, and a rare green space in this built-up area. Across City Rd to the east of the cemetery is Wesley’s Chapel, built in 1778. It was home and place of work and worship for John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.