Macabre Medical History, Graveyards, and Delightful Oddities

We'll start with a visit to Bunhill Fields, a 17th-century dissenters’ burial ground, and view the graves of William Blake, Daniel DeFoe, and an unusual medical case. We'll then make our way over to Charterhouse Square to learn all about its massive plague pit. We'll spend a few minutes inside the Charterhouse to learn even more about the Great Plague, then head to St Bartholomew the Great (NOT ALWAYS OPEN) to see a weeping statue, a haunted monk's tomb, and a flayed man brandishing a scalpel. Next, we'll wander through the grounds of Bart's Hospital, with more than 900 years of history, and learn all about bodysnatchers that marauded through the area in the 18th century. We'll hop on a train to London Bridge, where we'll visit an unusual medieval graveyard used for society's outcasts and rejects. Finally, we’ll finish with a visit to the Old Operating Theatre, Europe's oldest. If we have time at the end, we will retire to a local pub where I can answer any of your remaining questions.