Dulwich Old Cemetery
Dulwich Village, London SE21 7HN - England, UK
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Dulwich Old Cemetery has 12 Grade II listed tombs. Consecrated in 1616 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, the cemetery was the resting place for residents of Dulwich Village for hundreds of years. Buried here in unmarked graves are 35 victims of the plague, who died in 1665. Also, Old Bridget, Queen of the Norwood Gypsies, who died in 1768, Samuel Matthews, the hermit murdered in his cave in Dulwich Wood in 1802 and the wealthy lawyer, Richard Shaw, who defended Warren Hastings. His is the largest tomb.
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