When the churchyard of Croydon Minster was reconfigured in the 1960s, to make way for the six-lane urban motorway that is Roman Way, the vast majority of the gravestones and memorials were lost.
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No Stone Left Unturned in Search for Samuel Johnson’s Grave in The Churchyard of Croydon Minster
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