Orchard Burial Ground
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TitleOrchard Burial Ground
ReferenceCE/6
Date1837-1984
Scope and ContentLair register 1837-1854; Orchard Burial Ground Project files (plans and photographs) 1984.
Archival historyThe Orchard Burial Ground was opened c1837. It closed in 1894.
In January 1984, Strathclyde Regional Council obtained planning consent for the construction of a relief road through Kirkintilloch. As the relief road ran through the Orchard Burial Ground, the entire contents of the ground was exhumed and the remains reinterred in the Old Aisle Cemetery.
In January 1984, Strathclyde Regional Council obtained planning consent for the construction of a relief road through Kirkintilloch. As the relief road ran through the Orchard Burial Ground, the entire contents of the ground was exhumed and the remains reinterred in the Old Aisle Cemetery.
SubjectBurial, Cemeteries
Level of descriptionsub-fonds
Repository nameEast Dunbartonshire Archives - Kirkintilloch