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The nameless grave

Be sure your sin will find you out.

It sounds like a warning, a threat of fire and brimstone. It’s a fitting epitaph for the so-called ‘Sinner’s Grave’.

In the corner of a quaint churchyard, deep in the Lincolnshire countryside, sits one of the most disturbing graves in Britain. St Andrews Church at Irby Upon Humber is in the middle of a pretty little village. Towards the back of the church, close to the gate and set back from the little path, sits a tiny headstone. From afar, it looks unremarkable; small, mossy and often lost to sight when the

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