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Open Country: Bath Workhouse Burial Ground

Series 1793, episode 4

Helen Mark visits a field on the edge of Bath, once used as the burial ground for Bath Union Workhouse. Over 3,100 bodies of people who died in poverty between 1858 and 1899 were buried here in unmarked graves. For over a hundred years, the site has been unrecognised and those buried here forgotten. Now a group of local residents, artists, and descendants of those buried here are remembering what happened. Helen hears how the group is planting trees and wildflowers, putting up a plaque, and commemorating the lives of people who were buried anonymously

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Helen Mark