GRAVEYARDS AND CEMETERIES OF EDINBURGH

A tour through the history of Edinburgh’s burial grounds, including among others St Giles, St Cuthbert’s, Holyrood, Greyfriars, Canongate and Old Calton, and the later Dean, Dalry, Grange, Warriston and Jewish cemeteries. Covers the notable events, burials and grave markers at each burial ground as well as the changes in how the people of Edinburgh buried their dead and mourned their loved ones over the years. The book also unearths evidence of the lost burial grounds of Edinburgh that have been moved, built over or rediscovered.