Sighthill Cemetery is an active cemetery in central

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, Scotland dating from 1840. It has an operational crematorium. It lies within the Sighthill neighbourhood on the A803 Springburn Road between Cowlairs Park and Petershill Park, north of Glasgow city centre, bounded to the north by Keppochhill Road.

History

Sighthill Cemetery was laid out on former farmland linked to the Fountainwell Farm in 1839/40.Sighthill Cemetery Gates (Glasgow School of Art Archives)
The Glasgow Story The first burial was on 24 April 1840. The cemetery is laid out in an informal pattern with serpentine paths, typical of the first British cemeteries. The cemetery contains 116 war graves. The cemetery itself is a listed entity, and its entrance lodge with gates and the Martyrs' Monument (see below) and all with Category B status.

Notable burials

* George Arnott Walker Arnott (1799–1868), botanist *

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(1810–1892), Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland * Thomas Barclay (1792–1873), Principal of

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* James Hedderwick (1814–1897), newspaper editor * Robert Jamieson (1802–1880),

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* John Mitchell (1786–1881) was a Glasgow merchant and ship owner, known as "the Father of the Glasgow Town Council". * John Mossman (1817–1890), sculptor * William Mossman (1793–1851), sculptor * James Seaton Reid (1798–1851), Irish-born academic * Sarah West (1790–1876), actress * William Rae Wilson Smith (1817–1893), social reformer

Other memorials

Monument dating from 1847 to the leaders of the 1820

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(otherwise known as the 1820 Insurrection), including John Baird (1790–1820) and Andrew Hardie. Although several records state that those executed were re-interred at Sighthill that is neither likely nor what the monument itself says.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sighthill Cemetery Cemeteries in Scotland 1840 establishments in Scotland Category B listed buildings in Glasgow Springburn