Bunhill Fields
Bunhill Fields (from English Bone Hill for "bone mound") in the London borough of Finsbury served as a cemetery for the London nonconformists or dissenters from the late 17th century until its closure in 1855 . Since 1867 the site has been administered by the City of London and used as a green space. Bunhill Fields was badly damaged during the bombing of London by the German Air Force in 1942, so restoration work was carried out in 1960.
Among the most famous buried there are the theologian and writer John Bunyan (author of the pilgrimage ), the writer Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe ), the poet William Blake (author of Jerusalem ), George Fox (co-founder of the Quakers ), the theologian Theophilus Lindsey (founder of English Unitarianism ), the composer Isaac Watts and the mathematician Thomas Bayes .
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- ↑ Marc Dressler: Thomas Bayes and the pitfalls of statistics , in: Spectrum of Science SPECIAL 3.17: Beware of statistics! , 2017, ISSN 2193-4452, pp. 74ff
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 25 ″ N , 0 ° 5 ′ 20 ″ W.