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And so it created new cemeteries.
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The dead going to have to find a new final resting place.
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The records for the entire area.
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Just around 60,000 people were interred in the cemetery.
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They will be stored in a more.
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And then after that, everyone will be re buried in consecrated ground.
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Back in the 17 eighties, London was running out of space.
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It had nowhere for the dead, and so it created new cemeteries.
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One of them is here next to Euston station.
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And now, more than 200 years later, that land is needed for another purpose.
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The dead going to have to find a new final resting place.
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And this is the reason why this is where London's high speed railway station is about to be built.
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And so a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies.
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So the records for the entire areas just around 60,000 people were interred in the cemetery.
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But what will happen to all the bodies?
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Matthew Flinders, the first man to sail around Australia, is buried here.
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So to his Bill Richmond, one of Britain's most celebrated boxes, initially they will be taken for archaeological analysis.
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So laboratories they'll be stored in in a more again.
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That's with the agreement of the church.
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And then after that, everyone will be re buried in consecrated ground on This is just the beginning.
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Overall, on the whole line.
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During the peak, we're gonna have over 1000 archaeologists excavating over 60 side.
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It's the biggest archaeological investigation, everyone to take him in the UK on probably Europe.
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In this part of London, any development is always going to be building on history.
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But this one has rather more ghosts than normal.
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