📌 East End, Glasgow
★★★
Hundreds of prominent stone memorials pepper the skyline to the east of Glasgow city centre. Welcome to the city Necropolis – this vast (37 acre) Victorian “garden cemetery” is draped across a hilly area above Glasgow Cathedral, and over 50,000 people are buried here, many commemorated by grand memorials, monuments and tombs. A cemetery seems an unusual place to explore unless you have personal connections, but it’s visually one of the most impressive in Europe.
🌍 Location
📌 Off Castle Street (A8) at Glasgow Cathedral, 1 mi east of George Square, Glasgow
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 605655
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.862717,-4.231367
🚌 Numerous local buses | 🚇 Queen Street (1 mi) | 🚆 High Street & several other options
🚗 Car parks / street parking nearby (charge)
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open – see official website for details of weekend guided tours
🎫 Free
