New Calton Cemetery was founded in 1817 as both an overspill and replacement
to Old Calton Burial Ground, which lies half a mile to the west. More importantly as a place to reinter the graves that were being disturbed with the
building of Waterloo Place. The cemetery didn’t open to the public until 1820,
three years after the founding. It took this length of time to reinter the
bodies that had been moved from the Old Calton Cemetery.
Like St Cuthbert's, New Calton has a watch tower.
The cemetery is on a slope and gives wonderful views of
Holyrood Palace and Arthur’s Seat. It is also holds the burial place of the
Stevenson family, engineers and ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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