Bethlem Burying Ground

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New Broad Street, on the western boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).


Enclosed by Sir Thomas Roe in 1569 for a burial ground and called "New Churchyard near Bethelem" (Strype, 1720, I. ii. 96).

"Bethlehem Churchyard" (O. and M. 1677).

Broad Street Buildings erected on the northern side of the Churchyard in the 18th century (Rocque, 1746, and Horwood, 1799).

The site is now occupied by the Booking Office of Broad Street Station. .

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