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The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

There are a number of Neolithic monuments on the island; the Meayll Circle is of a unique design with six pairs of lintel graves arranged in a circle.

In the churchyard of St Nicholas's Church is the grave of the melancholic poet William Cowper, and St Withburga's Well, the site of the grave of one of the sainted daughters of the Saxon King Anna.

John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial. First his coffin was lost in the sands of the bay, but it was subsequently recovered.

His father's grave lies in the churchyard. The loss of the earl on HMS 'Hampshire' in 1916 on his way to put the Russian military in order was regarded as a national calamity.

The 'Giant's Grave' in St Andrew's churchyard is a collection of two badly-weathered 10th-century cross-shafts and four Norse 'hogback' tombstones.

It was in Tong that he buried Little Nell in his book 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and so immediately gave rise to a thriving local tourist industry for visitors to see her grave.

In the 1870s the churchyard became quite literally full up, and in consequence Admiral Chaloner gave a site on the eastern outskirts of the town for use as a cemetery.

By 1760, the first shipyards at Greenock were open, and in 1786 a graving dock was completed. A new graving dock was built in the early 1870s and work on the James Watt Dock began in 1881.

Bidford became famous in 1922 when a Saxon burial ground was discovered containing 200 graves, including those of warriors buried with their weapons.

By 1760, the first shipyards at Greenock were open, and in 1786 a graving dock was completed. A new graving dock was built in the early 1870s and work on the James Watt Dock began in 1881.

Since there is no evidence of Arthur ever existing, the claim that this is his grave is academic, though it would be foolish to ignore the power of handed-down legend.

Although the stonework has been replaced since, the heroic Edith Cavell's grave is still a poignantly simple one.

It is believed that they were originally used as grave markers where the gospel would be preached before the church was built.

The grave of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 - 91).

In the churchyard lies the eminent Victorian biologist William Saville Kent, who died in 1908, his grave covered with an array of fossilised sponges.

In the churchyard is the grave of Alfred Simey, who died in 1931 of wounds received years earlier in the First World War.

A major find, with 130 graves, the dig was supervised by a Mr Reddie Mallet and one of the diggers was the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould, writer of 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.

In the churchyard is the grave of 'Brusher' Mills, the famous New Forest snake-catcher.

This photograph shows the remnants of an old grave, protected by ironwork, which is said to cover the remains of the small girl associated with Wordsworth's poem 'We are Seven'.

A favourite epitaph is that over the graves of Thomas Scaife and Joseph Rutherford, killed in a railway accident: 'My engine now is cold and still, No water does my boiler fill; My coke affords its flames

In the churchyard is the mass grave of nuns of the Order of Poor Clares, who fled here from Dunkirk during the French Revolution.

Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.