Bunhill Fields, north of London, subject of a guide published by Tentmaker Publications, is the burial place of a great many notables in church history, including:

John Owen
John Bunyan
William Blake
Daniel Defoe
John Gill
George Fox
Isaac Watts
and members of Oliver Cromwell's family

The place was known as 'the cemetery of Puritan England'. John Milton lived and wrote Paradise Lost nearby.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I went there in March of this year on a vacation to London. It was a treat, because they restore one gravestone a year (as funding allows), and this year is John Owen. It just so happened that I was there on the day that they had the top of his box removed for repairs. It didn't make for a great picture, but it was still pretty cool. The groundskeepers don't like you going behind the gates into the actual graveyard, but if you ask they will gladly escort you to the graves for a quick picture. I found Owen, Gill and of course Bunyan without any help (he's out in the middle, haha), but it took awhile to find Watts. The groundskeeper helped though.

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Ranger
SBC, but personally confess the 1689 LBCF
Yunnan, China

"If we regularly beheld the glory of Christ, our Christian walk with God would become more sweet and pleasant, our spiritual light and strength would grow daily stronger and our lives would more gloriously represent the glory of Christ. Death would be most welcome to us." - John Owen

Thank you for sharing your experience. It is a place I would like to visit one day, dv.

I go there each time I visit London. It's right across the street from John Wesley's house and church. Many of my heroes are buried there.

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Dr. Don Kistler

Here is a map.

Speaking of Milton: I've heard that the Morgan Library and Museum in New York (mid-town Manhattan) possesses the sole surviving manuscript of Paradise Lost.

Are there any Puritan Board folks in NYC who could scurry over there, check it out (maybe get a photo of a couple of pages on their cell phone cam to post here)? That'd be great!

(Yeah, like they'd let anyone get anywhere near the actual manuscript...)

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Richard T. Zuelch, M.Div
Ruling Elder, OPC (not currently serving)
Westminster Presbyterian Church, CA (OPC)
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Talking to oneself is, I believe, considered a sign of lunacy. Thinking to oneself is most certainly a sign of it. - G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), in January, 1906