Canongate Kirkyard, located on the Royal Mile, is the final resting place of Adam Smith and Robert Fergusson, as well as many other less fam...

I visited this little burying ground on a hill a little less than a year ago. The hill is thought to have been a Pictish religious cente...

The South Leith Parish Kirk (or Church) has a 500-year history and some of the oldest - as well as most interesting - gravestones that I ...

What's better than an old graveyard? One that is situated in the shadow of Arthur's Seat and the Salisbury Crags. I don't know...

Hey, blog. Long time no see. I've been busy working on my PhD program, but I haven't stopped thinking about or visiting graveyar...

Stoney Hill Cemetery is one of the more unusual burying grounds I have visited. Because the site was abandoned for many years, it was a...

Those of you who are long-term readers of this blog may remember my spring 2014 obsession with Chestnut Ridge , the lost hamlet. Long s...