List of graveyards and cemeteries in Edinburgh

This is a list of graveyards, burial grounds and cemeteries in Edinburgh.

Cemeteries in Council Control

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• Colinton Cemetery
• Comely Bank Cemetery (previously private)
• Corstorphine Hill Cemetery (previously private) (includes a woodland cemetery section)
• Craigmillar Castle Park Cemetery (the most recent cemetery)
• Dalry Cemetery
• East Preston Street Burial Ground
• Grange Cemetery
• Jewish Cemetery, Sciennes House Place
• Kirkliston Cemetery
• Liberton Cemetery
• Morningside Cemetery (previously private)
• Mortonhall Cemetery and Crematorium
• New Calton Burial Ground, Regent Road
• Newington Cemetery (includes a large Jewish section)
• North Leith Burial Ground, Coburg Street
• North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace (previously private)
• Old Calton Burial Ground, Waterloo Place/Regent Road
• Portobello Cemetery (includes a large Muslim section)
• Ratho Cemetery
• Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street (includes a Sikh section)
• Saughton Cemetery, Chesser Loan (previously private)
• South Queensferry Cemetery
• Warriston Cemetery (previously private)
• Wauchope Burial Ground (also known as Niddrie Marishal Burial Ground), Greendykes Road

Churchyards in Council Control

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• Buccleuch Churchyard, Buccleuch Street
• Canongate Church
• Colinton Churchyard
• Corstorphine Parish Church
• Cramond Churchyard
• Currie Churchyard
• Dalmeny Churchyard
• Duddingston Churchyard
• Gogar Churchyard
• Greyfriars Kirkyard adjacent to Greyfriars Kirk
• Liberton Churchyard
• Ratho Churchyard
• Restalrig Churchyard
• St Cuthberts, Lothian Road
• St Mary and St James, Newhaven Main Street (small and ruinous)
• South Leith Parish Church
• Vennel, South Queensferry

Cemeteries in Private Control

• Dean Cemetery
• Eastern Cemetery (off Easter Road)
• Mount Vernon RC Cemetery, controlled by Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh
• Piershill Cemetery
• Seafield Cemetery and Crematorium
• Warriston Crematorium and Gardens of Remembrance

Graveyards in Private/Church Control

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• Holyrood Abbey (Historic Scotland)
• Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Dean Bridge (small outer terraced area plus crypt below)
• North Leith Church, Madeira Street
• Portobello Old Parish Church, Pittville Street (most stones removed but previously vaults stood on all outer walls)
• Quaker graveyard, The Pleasance (University of Edinburgh)
• St Johns, Princes Street
• St Marks, Portobello
• Old Portobello Parish Church (Bellfield Street) partly built over, now in community use

Wholly Destroyed Burial Grounds

• St Giles Cathedral Burial Ground (removed to build the Law Courts)
• St Nicholas (Citadel) Burial Ground in Leith removed to build Cromwell's Citadel
• Kirk o' Field Churchyard (now the central quadrangle of Old College)

References

1. History, Leith. "History of Leith, Edinburgh  » List of the City of Edinburgh Council Cemeteries and Edinburgh Private Cemeteries". Retrieved 25 January 2017.
2. Edinburgh Street Atlas A-Z ISBN 978-1-84348-914-6

Bibliography

Golledge, Charlotte (2020). The Graveyards and Cemeteries of Edinburgh. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1445694245.