This led to more burials with coffins, gravestones and monuments. While this was the case most of the time, during the Great Plague of 1665-6 more than 15% of London's population was wiped out - some ...

(Image: Friends of Nunhead Cemetery) First built in 1840, this Victorian Cemetery is famous for being one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries that were built around London at the time. Here you’ll ...

Graveyards are so successful at housing wildlife that in London's Tower Hamlets Cemetery, a local group found 1,111 different species living within its walls. More than 450 different species of beetle ...