Quaker Gardens, Islington

You are walking toward a site that marks a significant chapter in the history of religious dissent in London. In sixteen sixty-one, the Society of Friends purchased this plot of land for two hundred and seventy pounds, making it the very first freehold property ever owned by the Quakers in the city. The area holds the remains of approximately twelve thousand people, including George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, who was laid to rest here in sixteen ninety-one.