The Graveyards and Cemeteries of Edinburgh

In medieval Edinburgh, the dead were buried in the city’s churchyards, with internment in the church reserved for the wealthy, but in the post-Reformation years both rich and poor were buried in the grounds of the churches. By the 19th century the city center churchyards were overcrowded and new outer town cemeteries created, no longer controlled by the town but by independent cemetery companies. In this book, local historian Charlotte Golledge takes readers on a tour through the history of...