Tuesday 29 November 2011

Visit the Cross Bones Graveyard

Just a few streets away from London Bridge tube station is the Cross Bones Graveyard - the site of a medieval graveyard where prostitutes and paupers were buried on unconsecrated ground. It's now because a shrine of sorts for the "Outcast Dead".


I walked out of the tube and past Southwark Cathedral. Apparently a mystery play has been performed there about the prostitutes who were buried at Cross Bones.


Then a stroll through Borough Market - a strangely otherworldly place - like you're entering into a subterranean underworld.


And then the gates of the graveyard itself, which is strewn with offerings.



There isn't public access onto the land itself, so I took a photo through the gates.


An interesting little curiosity of a place, and well worth a visit, if you're in London with a bit of time to spare. There's even a nice little pub just opposite.

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