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Watch House, Rotherhithe

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Watch House In the 19th century, a watchman would have been stationed here to guard against bodysnatchers. They stole corpses from the adjoining former burial ground for medical research at Guy's Hospital.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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