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PHOTOS: 10 Famous British Graves

By | Posted on November 3rd, 2011
It is fitting that the grave of the Pilgrim's Progress author (who died in 1688) features a carved representation of a pilgrim on its side. Bunyan is interred in London's Bunhill Fields Cemetery, which was designated in the 1660s as a burial ground for Non-Comformist figures (such as Daniel Defoe and Quaker George Fox). (Press Association via AP Images)

On an episode of Whitechapel, BBC America's new crime drama, DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and Buchan (Steve Pemberton) pay a visit to the grave of Mary Kelly, one of Jack the Ripper's victims. That tomb is just one of Britain's best-known final resting places. Take a look at 10 of Britain's most famous graves.

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