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Laurence Sterne's Grave

Coxwold, North Yorkshire

A novelist whose body was stolen and recognised on a dissecting table.

Laurence Sterne, author of 'Tristram Shandy', died in London in 1768. Soon after his burial, bodysnatchers dug him up and sold him to Cambridge University.

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When
1768, reburied 1969
Where
54.1880, -1.1800
Group
Mysterious graves

Visiting

His house, Shandy Hall, is open in summer.

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