Historians are rather curious people. They like to visit curious places, like graveyards.

Apparently there's something about tombstones.

When it comes to Great Britain, there are a number of places you can go and visit to pay your respects.

Two in particular stand out.

First, of course, is Westminster Abbey.

The burial place of Kings and Queens, and poets, and, well, you get the picture.

But the place I prefer is outdoors and it's free too.

This place is known as Bun Hill Fields. It likely stands for Bone Hill.

It was a burial ground as far back as 1,000, if not even earlier.

From the 1660s on, it became the place for the non-conformists to be buried.

These were the church leaders who would not conform to the Church of England. We know them as Puritans. Many non-conformists are buried there.

John Owen, the great Puritan theologian is buried there. He had been vice chancellor at Oxford University, but he was down in

London. He lost his post because of being a Puritan. He was in London as a pastor and

there he is buried in Bun Hillfields.

Isaac Watts, the great English hymn writer, he too is buried in Bun Hillfields.

Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley, is there. And there are others too. The writer of

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, is there. And so is the poet, William Blake.

And there is one more person worth mentioning. His remains lie but a few feet from John Owen. And he is the author of the second most popular book in the English language, this is John Bunyan,

the man who gave us, Pilgrim's Progress.

Bunyan died on August 31st, 1688.

He was in London on a preaching trip.

He was buried there in Bun Hillfields.

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