Bunhill Fields

I picked a random Tube stop after work today and I exited the Underground at Old Street. I headed south and spotted a cemetery that had some truly old gravestones. In the US you really don’t see things just laying around that date back to the 16th and 17th centuries, so I thought I’d check out the graves. In one corner was a standalone crypt, so I thought the person buried there must be important. I was stunned to find that I was standing at the graveside of John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most important literary works of that period. And then, just across the way was a tall marker denoting Daniel Dafoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe. There were many, many other dignitaries buried there, including some Cromwells and even JRR Tolkein’s grandfather.