Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No Activities <p> There are a number of graves of notable and less well-known local people whose work and life had a global reach. <p> OpeningTime1 13:30 - 16:00 OpeningDate1 29/9/2019 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 18822 Refreshments No AddressLine2 222B Dalkeith Road Postcode EH16 5DT Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newington Cemetary Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1739 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Description An account of the resource <p> A publicly accessible green lung in an urban setting, this 14 acre cemetery dating from 1846 is a peaceful haven and wildlife sanctuary supporting biodiversity, in the care of City of Edinburgh Council. Architect David Cousin followed 19th century ?garden cemetery movement? principles in its layout, also designing the Victorian Gothic entrance lodge and the Romanesque catacombs. Friends of Newington Cemetery will be on hand to point out features of interest, including links to graves of folk with global connections. <p>