Burial ground · The Northern Marches
Mereton Island
Mereton island is a consecrated burial island that receives the dead of the town and of the eastern holms. It is smaller than Saint Ceolwulf's and four centuries newer, consecrated after a hard decade when the older island could no longer cope with the numbers; its founding is the single occasion when the wet country has grown. It has a chapel but no charnel, and none of its ground has yet been used a second time.
Where the volumes speak of it
- Book VI › 18.2 The Three Islands
- Book VI › 18.4 The Ground That Will Not Take
- LiB2 › 9.6 Churches, Chapels, and Burial Grounds
- LiB2 › 9.10 Talk of the Town
