Visitors to Scarborough often pay a visit to the grave of English poet Anne Brontë of Haworth, who died there in May 1849 at the age of 29. She is buried in the churchyard of Scarborough's St Mary's Church. Hers is the only well maintained grave at the site. Most of the markers are illegible, and many have been cleared and lined up along the wall, leaving an open field along the standing gravestones. The clearing is used by children as a football field, and a goal and net are set up to one side. In this shot, you can only see the orange cone (way to the right, just above the shadow) that marked the corner of the half-field, but trust me. This is more of a soccer field than a final resting place.
This visit was one of the highlights of the trip for my younger daughter, who, for some reason, loves to walk through very old cemetaries. Were it not for all the graves and crypts inside Westminster Abbey, which were "totally awesome", this would have been the highlight for her.
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