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What famous Abbey was Dickens buried in? And no, it's not Downton...good try. 

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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens where was dickens's buried

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shmoop so he was buried at poet's corner in westminster

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abbey Eso westminster abbey sits in the heart of the

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city of london It is one of the oldest churches

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there and it is probably next to st paul's cathedral

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is one of the most important churches in london because

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of who's buried there and also because things like royal

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coronations weddings happened there In fact i was one of

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the many eons in the crowd and will and kate

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got married at westminster abbey So i mean that church

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is still despite with many centuries that it's been there

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is still very much functioning as as a church as

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well as a tourist attraction So anyway in that church

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there are various areas where there are royalty There are

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scientists there are other kinds of i'm thinkers who were

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integral to england's progress buried and it is an extremely

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great honor I'm especially considering how much space is limited

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in that church and dickens is one of the people

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who has been buried and poet's corner which even despite

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what it sounds like it's it's really a writer's corner

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so there are many poets there But it's Also obviously

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novelists and philosophers and other kinds of writers as well

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What famous abby was dickens's buried in and in what

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part of the abbey was he buried Why is it

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an honor to be buried there No it's not downturn 00:01:34.0 --> [endTime] abby

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