Category: Woodplumpton

Buried under a boulder: the grave of a Lancashire “witch”

August 14, 2015February 5, 2019 Caroline34 Comments

In a pretty churchyard in Woodplumpton, a village not far from Preston in Lancashire, is a mysterious old grave with many dark tales attached to it. A large boulder – terribly out of place among smart Victorian and Edwardian headstones – is said to cover the grave of a witch.

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Today's new article on Flickeringlamps.com takes a look at the history of Quaker Gardens in Islington - a burial ground for London’s Quakers from 1661-1855, & now a public park with a memorial to George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement

The beautiful churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake. The churchyard is home to many wonderful 18th & 19th century gravestones, & is the burial place (grave not marked) of the Elizabethan scholar & magician John Dee, who lived in the parish. The archway in the churchyard was originally part of the church building but was moved when the church was restored & remodelled in the late 19th/early 20th century. Parts of the church building date back as far as 1543; this church replaced an older chapel that was founded in the 14th century.

A remnant of St Dunstan-in-the-West's burial ground can be found in a small park in the thoroughfare of Bream's Buildings, just north of Fleet Street. Unlike many of the City's churches, St Dunstan's survived the Great Fire of 1666, only for the medieval church to be replaced in the early 19th century when Fleet Street was widened. Most of the surviving tombstones in this garden are from the early decades of the 19th century (the burial ground closed in the 1850s), but the last stone pictured in this sequence dates from c.1630-50, a very rare pre-Fire survival!

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