Calton New Burial Ground

's tombstone in the upper east section of the New Calton Cemetery]] It was initially necessitated by the construction of Waterloo Place, which had cut through the Old Calton Burial Ground, requiring an immediate re-interment of the bodies affected. This major engineering exercise took from 1817 to 1820 to complete. Bodies were carefully identified and moved, with their corresponding gravestone, if existing, to the new cemetery. Due to this fairly unusual circumstance a number of stones predate the cemetery but are indeed true markers of those interred. The new cemetery was made far larger than needed simply for the required reburials, and indeed exceeds the area of the entire space occupied…

The task of laying out the new burial ground is believed to have been undertaken by Thomas Brown, Superintendent of Works for the city at that time. The older stones all lie on the north-most edge of the cemetery. In some cases entire vaults are rebuilt. The layout is generally rectilinear, and is laid out in a series of east–west terraces stepping down the hill.