I have a burial from 1848 from "New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground"  In the last column titled "Where buried"  lists lower ground.   Most burials on the page are lower ground with a few listed as middle ground.  I have two different opinions from family members on what "lower ground" means.  I'd appreciate if someone could clarify what "lower ground" means please.  Thank you Judy 

> I have a burial from 1848 from "New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground"  > In the last column titled "Where buried"  lists lower ground.   Just a section of the Fields, in a fairly built up area even then, where small plots were acquired from time to time to extend the graveyard. I think Upper ground was the first one, after which they bought new space, and this was the way they described it, for the convenience of the cemetery keepers. Normally people bought a grave s[pave which would accommodate six, over the two years, and subsequent family burials meant a reopening of the right grave. Most in Bunhill Burial ground were marked, I believe, since the occupants were the better-off nonconformists in London. I have a notion that when the burial grouind was closed, it became a garden with seats, and it is likely that stones would have been moved to the edges of the area. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society