Part of the churchyard of St Michael-on-Greenhill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Part of the churchyard of St Michael-on-Greenhill by Bill Boaden as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Bill Boaden Taken: 27 Dec 2017
The churchyard is thought to be one of 5 ancient burial grounds of England, and predated a church on the site. The other four sites were at Glastonbury, Canterbury, Lindisfarne and York. It is also thought that this hill was the earliest settled part of Lichfield.