PLACE OF BURIAL
The churchyard is described as the burial place of the 'wretched man' (Scrooge), overrun by grass and weeds, symbolizing neglect and death.
CHURCHYARD
'A churchyard. Here, then, the wretched man, whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place!'