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Bunhill Fields

It used to be cemetery located in the London Borough of Islington. Bunhill Fields was part of the manor of Finsbury (originally Fensbury), which is of great antiquity, having its origins as a prebend of St Paul's Cathedral established in 1104. In 1769, an Act of Parliament gave the City of London Corporation the right to continue to lease the ground for a further 99 years. This enabled the city authorities to continue to let the ground to their tenant as a burial ground. In 1852 however, the Burial Act was passed which enabled places such as Bunhill Fields to be closed once they became full.

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