All Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
Cemeteries and burial grounds to visit in Scotland
- Save to List: ClosedMon9:00 am - 5:00 pmTue9:00 am - 5:00 pmWed9:00 am - 5:00 pmThu9:00 am - 5:00 pmFri9:00 am - 5:00 pmSat9:00 am - 12:00 pmSunClosedProfessional Genealogist based in Scotland who offers a professional yet friendly service to help you trace your Ancestors. We can research your Family Tree so that you know as much as you can about your links to this amazing country before you visit! Check out our website for details of services. Special Interests include WW1 & WW2 Air Force Research. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +There are 42 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war here. There are a further 74 of the 1939-45 war, including 2 unidentified sailors of the Royal Navy and 1 unidentified seaman of the Merchant Navy. There are also 3 Norwegian war burials here. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +The burial ground was opened in 1718, and is the resting place of several notable Scots, including philosopher David Hume, scientist John Playfair, rival publishers William Blackwood and Archibald Constable, and clergyman Dr Robert Candlish. It is also the site of the Political Martyrs’ Monument, an obelisk erected to the memory of a number of political reformers, and Scotland’s American Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-1463831742Email: wardlawmausoleum@gmail.comBurial site for many Frasers of Lovat. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 141 287 5064Email: chair@glasgownecropolis.orgThe Necropolis, Glasgow’s Victorian City of the Dead, is a vast and grand cemetery modeled on Père-Lachaise in Paris. Described as one of the most significant cemeteries in Europe, it is a major visitor attraction and patrolled by Park Rangers. Heritage Trail maps are available to guide the visitor to the memorials and tombs of some of Glasgow’s most eminent Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +It could almost be a question in a trivia quiz: “Name the monument on a Scottish island that is owned by the National Trust for Australian (New South Wales).” But as you are reading this on a page about the Macquarie Mausoleum, in Gruline on the Isle of Mull, there are no prizes for correct answers. For obvious practical reasons Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1479 821944Email: oldkirk@nethybridge.comThe Old Kirk Yard has more than 430 memorial and grave stones naming more than 1400 individuals. Of these 1400, some 150 people are recorded as dying before 1855 and therefore before statutory death registration was introduced to Scotland. These gravestone inscriptions could be the only record of their very existence. The inscriptions are an extremely valuable record of the Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0-131 668 8600Step into a tomb with a history spanning 5,000 years of human activity. Read more...
