Crossbones Graveyard & Garden of Remembrance

One of London's ancient cemeteries, containing more than 15,000 headstones, more than half of them children, and most of the burials were from the bottom of London society, the cemetery became the final resting place for London's poor, and closed in 1853.

Cross Bones is a post-medieval disused burial ground where the bodies of at least 15,000 prostitutes and poor Londoners were once buried. In 1996, a local poet and playwright named John Constable invented the story of Cross Bones, and wrote a series of poems and plays about the spirits of the dead women - and now, monthly vigils are held here to commemorate the dead.