Mysterious graves

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• Bedd BranwenRiver Alaw, Anglesey · The grave of a princess who died of a broken heart.
• Boudicca's Grave?King's Cross Station, London · The warrior queen buried under platform 9 or 10?
• Charles I's CoffinSt George's Chapel, Windsor · A royal surgeon opened the king's coffin and took a bone as a souvenir.
• Dr William PriceLlantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf · A Druid doctor whose son's cremation made cremation legal.
• Dylan Thomas's GraveSt Martin's churchyard, Laugharne · A simple white cross for Wales's most famous poet.
• Flora MacDonald's GraveKilmuir, Isle of Skye · The heroine who rescued Bonnie Prince Charlie, buried in his sheet.
• Greyfriars BobbyGreyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh · The little dog said to have guarded his master's grave for 14 years.
• Jeremy Bentham's Auto-IconUniversity College London · A philosopher who asked for his body to be preserved and put on show.
• Jonathan Swift's GraveSt Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin · The author of Gulliver's Travels, buried beside his beloved Stella.
• King Alfred's Lost BonesHyde Abbey, Winchester, Hampshire · Was a single piece of pelvis found in a museum box from King Alfred?
• King Harold's GraveWaltham Abbey, Essex · Was the last Saxon king buried here after Hastings?
• King Orry's GraveLaxey, Isle of Man · A Stone Age tomb named after a Viking king.
• King Stephen's Lost GraveFaversham, Kent · A king whose bones, legend says, were thrown into the creek.
• Laurence Sterne's GraveCoxwold, North Yorkshire · A novelist whose body was stolen and recognised on a dissecting table.
• Lawrence of Arabia's GraveMoreton, Dorset · A famous hero killed on his motorbike, and the black car nobody found.
• Little John's GraveHathersage, Derbyshire · A grave three metres long, and a giant thighbone dug up in 1784.
• Lord Byron's GraveHucknall, Nottinghamshire · 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know', in a village church vault.
• Mad Jack Fuller's PyramidBrightling, East Sussex · A pyramid tomb where, legend said, he sat at a table in a top hat.
• O'Connell's TowerGlasnevin Cemetery, Dublin · A giant round tower over the tomb of 'the Liberator'.
• Oliver Cromwell's HeadSidney Sussex College, Cambridge · A head that was hanged, stuck on a pole, blown down and finally buried in secret.
• Richard III's Car Park GraveLeicester · A king lost for 500 years, found under a council car park.
• Rob Roy's GraveBalquhidder, Stirling · 'MacGregor despite them'.
• Robin Hood's GraveKirklees, West Yorkshire · Where the outlaw shot his last arrow and asked to be buried where it fell.
• Shakespeare's GraveHoly Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon · A cursed grave, and a skull that may be missing.
• Sir Walter Raleigh's HeadWest Horsley, Surrey · A widow who kept her husband's head in a red leather bag.
• Sir Walter Scott's GraveDryburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders · The great writer, buried in the ruins of an abbey.
• St Cuthbert's TombDurham Cathedral · A saint whose body was said never to decay, carried for years by monks.
• St David's ShrineSt Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire · The shrine of the patron saint of Wales.
• St Edmund's Lost BodyAbbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk · The martyred king's body vanished, and some say it lies under the tennis courts.
• St Patrick's GraveDown Cathedral, Downpatrick, County Down · A granite boulder marking the grave of Ireland's patron saint.
• Strongbow's TombChrist Church Cathedral, Dublin · The Norman knight who conquered Ireland, and a 'half-figure' beside him.
• Sweetheart AbbeyNew Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway · A widow who carried her husband's heart for 21 years.
• The Babes in the WoodWayland Wood, near Watton, Norfolk · The wood where two orphans were left to die, and robins covered them with leaves.
• The Black Prince's TombCanterbury Cathedral, Kent · A warrior prince in gilded armour.
• The Burns MausoleumSt Michael's churchyard, Dumfries · Scotland's national poet, moved to a grand tomb.
• The Eleanor CrossesGeddington, Northamptonshire · Crosses marking each night's rest of a dead queen's funeral journey.
• The Giant's GraveSt Andrew's Churchyard, Penrith, Cumbria · Two tall crosses and four stone 'hogbacks' said to mark a giant king.
• The Glasgow NecropolisGlasgow · A Victorian city of the dead on a hill above the cathedral.
• The Hand of GloryWhitby Museum, North Yorkshire · A dead man's hand, believed to put a household into a magic sleep.
• The Logierait MortsafesLogierait, Perthshire · Iron cages that kept the bodysnatchers away.
• The Maid of Cefn YdfaLlangynwyd, near Maesteg · A tragic love story behind one of Wales's best-loved songs.
• The Mummies of St Michan'sSt Michan's Church, Dublin · Bodies preserved for centuries by the dry crypt air.
• The Robber's GraveSt Nicholas churchyard, Montgomery · A bare patch where grass would not grow, to prove a man innocent.
• The Southwell DeviantSouthwell, Nottinghamshire · A man buried with iron spikes through his body, to stop him rising.
• The Tomb of Edward IIGloucester Cathedral · A murdered king, or one who escaped to Italy?
• The Tomb of the Unknown WarriorWestminster Abbey, London · A soldier chosen at random, buried among kings.
• The Vampire of AlnwickAlnwick, Northumberland · A medieval revenant blamed for a plague, then dug up and burned.
• The Wicked LadyMarkyate, Hertfordshire · A noblewoman said to have ridden out at night as a highwayman.
• The Witch of Scrapfaggot GreenGreat Leighs, Essex · A witch's stone moved by an American army truck, and the chaos that followed.
• Thomas Hardy's HeartStinsford, Dorset · A writer split between two graves, and a story about a cat.
• W.B. Yeats's GraveDrumcliffe, County Sligo · 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!'