Discover Dean Cemetery Tour

Explore Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh’s elegant 19th-century burial ground, where graves reveal compelling stories of the city

Dean Cemetery became Edinburgh’s most fashionable garden cemetery in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beneath its carefully-tended lawns lie many of the city’s finest of their day, and their stories encapsulate much of Edinburgh’s history — not just lawyers, doctors, merchants, politicians and university professors, but also engineers, scientists, explorers, artists, sculptors, writers and army officers and men.

By Dean Village Association