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Ewer Street Burial Ground

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St Saviour's Southwark has some good reports describing this burial ground at various times: 1822 - a report of a body-snatching incident; 1839 - a report of its over-filled "repulsive" condition; c 1861 - bodies exhumed by the Charing Cross Railway Company; June 1987 - more bodies found by workmen.

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Ewer Street Burial Ground

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Ewer Street burial ground

Ewer Street Burial Ground {On the small information board:} Site of Ewer Str...

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