Winchester Geese and Cross Bones Graveyard black plaque
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# Cross Bones Graveyard, Redcross Way Standing on Redcross Way today, you're positioned at the threshold of one of London's most poignant forgotten histories—a place where the marginalized dead of medieval Southwark found their final rest, denied the sacred ground granted to respectable society. Be...
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Redcross Way, Southwark
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Cross Bones Graveyard In medieval times this was an unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes or 'Winchester Geese'. By the 18th century it had become a paupers' burial ground, which closed in 1853. Here, local people have created a memorial shrine. The Outcast Dead R.I.P