Cemeteries · Central Scotland
Glasgow Necropolis
In or near Glasgow.
Glasgow Necropolis — Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Glasgow Necropolis is a cemetery in central. Established 1832. (Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland.) According to Wikipedia: "The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral in an area bordered by the Townhead and Dennistoun districts to the north east of the modern city centre. Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typical for the period, only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3,500 monuments exist here."
- Coordinates
- 55.8628, -4.2318
- Established
- 1832
Sources
- osm: w4991193 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Glasgow Necropolis (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Glasgow Necropolis - aerial - 2025-04-17 01.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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