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Southern Necropolis

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Southern Necropolis
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“The Southern Necropolis is a cemetery in the Gorbals district of southern Glasgow, Scotland. It was opened in the year 1840 to provide an affordable and respectable place of burial for the people of Gorbals and the surrounding areas of the city of Glasgow. Over 250,000 individuals have been buried…”
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National GeographicOct 30, 2014

10 of the World’s Most Haunted Cities

These notoriously frightful cities are beset with ghastly, ghostly close encounters. Glasgow, Scotland: Glasgow is home to the sprawling Southern Necropolis (“City of the Dead”), the resting place of ...

Resting place of approximately a quarter million souls

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