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Bunhill Fields

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Bunhill Fields

Public gardens and cemetery in Finsbury in the London borough of Islington, England. It was originally part of an estate belonging to St Paul's Cathedral. In the 17th century it became a burial-ground for dissenters; the writers John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe are buried here. The Fields were opened as a public garden in 1869.



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