A walk from the Old Bailey to Marble Arch, the route once taken by executed prisoners, marking the site of Newgate Prison and Tyburn Tree, notorious for mass executions. Despite the gruesome past, memorialization is minimal, highlighting the stories of the forgotten.
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Bunhill Fields
London is a city of towns and villages, once separate from each other and with their own distinct character. And then there would have been the spaces in between; the fields, moorlands and forests almost unpopulated save for the occasional dwelling