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Dr Richard Wilkes gave a piece of land to take the overspill, and 211 corpses were buried there.

Many distinguished figures lie buried here - among them Jane Austen and Izaak Walton.

Today they have gone; beneath the towing path, fibre optic cables are now buried - today's version of another kind of communication.

Local legend had it that in ages past King Sil was buried here on horseback.

In June 1909 this memorial cross, seen here soon after unveiling, its granite pristine, was erected to commemorate Henry I, the abbey's founder, who was buried before the high altar in January

Its founder, Louisa Daniell, is buried in Aldershot military cemetery.

She lies buried in the churchyard at nearby Littleham.

During that time, the horse has given way to the internal combustion engine; trams have been and gone; the statue of Sir Robert Peel now stands guard over a gents' toilet; and a memorial commemorates Bury's

Its bricks were supposedly made from clay dug out of the Green, and the hall was originally used by the Abbots of Bury St Edmunds as a hunting lodge.

He was honoured at his death by being buried alongside the great and the good, (and the bad and the mad) in Westminster Abbey.

Many of those lost are buried under the present Esplanade.

The churchyard contains part of a Saxon preaching cross, found buried by the church in 1910.

Now the centre of a hectic one-way traffic system, Grasmere's parish church of St Oswald is perhaps best known for being the last resting place of the poet William Wordsworth, who is buried there alongside

Bishop Bancroft, the founder of the original palace, is buried in the churchyard.

The treacherous seas here have claimed many lives, and hundreds of seafarers are buried in the graveyards.

He lived for nearly 30 years at Brantwood, opposite the village on the eastern shore of the lake, and preferred to be buried here, rather than to have a grander tomb in Westminster Abbey.

The church of St Lawrence has twin rood-stair turrets – these are usually found in much larger churches, such as St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Sir Henry Newbolt the poet, author of the patriotic and stirring 'Drake's Drum', is buried in the churchyard.

More recently, George Woodall (1850-1925) was buried at St Mary's.

At one time it was a favourite venue for gala days and brass band competitions, with special trains bringing people from such places as Leeds, Bradford, Bury and Oldham.

The church here has a fine monument to Lawrence of Arabia sculpted by Eric Kennington, though that troubled warrior is actually buried a few miles away at Moreton.

Buried in the churchyard are William Wordsworth, his wife, Mary, his loving sister Dorothy, and the other members of the Wordsworth family.

Skating was introduced from Holland by returning Royalists in the late 17th century, and race meetings were held annually on Bury Fen between Bluntisham and Earith.