Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on its west by the Dean Gallery.Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Dean Village, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Dean Cemetery, 70 Belford Road, Edinburgh”, “Edinburgh Western Cemetery”, and “Edinburgh, 70 Belford Road, Dean Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Modern Two and Edinburgh Castle.
Modern Two
Art gallery
Photo: Grousebeater2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Modern Two, formerly the Dean Gallery, in Edinburgh, is one of the two buildings housing the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, one of Scotland's national art galleries. Modern Two is situated 410 feet southwest of Dean Cemetery.
Edinburgh Castle
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. Edinburgh Castle is situated 1 mile east of Dean Cemetery.
Belford Bridge, Belford Road
Bridge
Photo: Andycatlincom, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Belford Bridge, Belford Road is situated 650 feet south of Dean Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dean Village and West End.
Dean Village
Suburb
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dean Village is a former village immediately northwest of the city centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is bounded by Belford Road to the south and west, Belgrave Crescent Gardens to the north and below the Dean Bridge to the east.
West End
Suburb
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West End is an affluent district of Edinburgh, Scotland, which along with the rest of the New Town and Old Town forms central Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Site.
West Coates
Neighborhood
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
West Coates or Wester Coates is a residential district of central Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is on the A8, in proximity to Haymarket railway station and Roseburn, west of the city centre, bounded by the Water of Leith on its north side.
Dean Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95263° or 55° 57′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.22275° or 3° 13′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C7RXQ3G+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 23051228OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q5246062
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Dean Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة دين”
- Catalan: “Cementiri Dean”
- Catalan: “Dean Cemetery (Edimburg)”
- Chinese: “迪恩公墓”
- Esperanto: “Tombejo Dean”
- French: “cimetière Dean”
- French: “Cimetière Dean”
- Georgian: “დინის სასაფლაო”
- German: “Friedhof von Dean Village”
- Greek: “νεκροταφείο Ντιν”
- Hebrew: “בית קברות דין”
- Japanese: “ディーン・セメタリー”
- Japanese: “ディーン墓地”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Dean”
- Slovenian: “Dean Cemetery”
- Swedish: “Dean Cemetery”
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