Falkland Old Cemetery
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| Name | Falkland Old Cemetery |
| Address | |
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| Other names | |
| Date | 17th century |
| Architect | |
| OS grid ref | NO 25079 7320 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°15′09″N 3°12′39″W |
| Listing | Category C |
| Listing reference | LB31290 |
Falkland Old Cemetery is a cemetery in Falkland, with the entrance in High Street West, but extending to the walls along Back Dykes. It is no longer used for burials following the opening of the new Falkland Cemetery on Newton Road.
| HES listing details[1] |
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| Address/Site Name
Graveyard High Street West Port |
| Description
Square gatepiers with moulded caps circa 1840: rubble walled enclosure burials from 1670; a few stones 18th century onwards. |
Further references
4 August 1904 Burying Ground Letter to J. & F. Anderson, Edinburgh Dear Sirs, I had a call the other day from the Rev. Mr Johnston, the Parish Minister, and Mr Alex Bonthrone, one of the heritors. They explained that there had been a complaint as to the untidy condition of the Burying Ground, situated you will recollect, on the south side of the main road in the town leading to the approach gates, and that the minister, who explained that the grass was high, proposed to have it cut, they further explained however that the tenant of the property on the west side of the entrance gate to the Burying Ground, belonging to Falkland Estate and tenanted by Mrs George Ramsay, had a hole in the garden wall through which a large number of hens kept by her passed into the Burying Ground, and they wished this hole shut up. They further, I gathered, wished a gate which leads from the inside of the Burying Ground entrance to the garden of the property shut or secured.[2]
Notes
- ↑ HES record for LB31290
- ↑ Letter from George Gavin, Falkland Estate factor to J. & F. Anderson, solicitors, 4 August 1904, uoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 94.
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page ##.
- ↑ Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page ##.