History

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 By 1890 Rosehill Cemetery was nearly full, with only 91 places left, each of three layers. The Town Council asked the Burial Board to look into this predicament, and the following proposal was presented to them by a committee convened by Mr Alex Grieve

" Report by their Committee to the Burial Board of the Burgh of Montrose. Recommending a site for a cemetery".

Your Committee have come to a unanimous finding that all the above requirements can be had on the farm of Sleephillock on the Estate of Langley Park in the Parish of Dun.

In calling your attention to the above ground your committee would especially put before you the undernoted advantages- viz:- Its nearness to the Town, a good Road, an abundant supply of water from Glenskenno, and the line of telephone passing the gate, and further they would also ask you notice the picturesque efeect of the hilly ground would have if laid out in an Artictic and Tasteful manner.

(Sgd.) Alex Grieve, Convenor of Committee. Montrose 25th September 1890

 ... and which report together with the relative correspondence betwixt the Agents of Langley Park and the Town Clerk having been read and duly considered the Board unanimously Resolved, on the motion of Councillor Boyek, seconded by the Hospital Master, to approve of and adopt the Committee's report and to purchase the lands and farm of Sleepyhillock in the Parish of Dun from Mr Cruickshank of Langley Park, for burying ground purposes at his offer of One thousand five hundred and eighty pounds of price payable at Martinmas next, the term of entry of the purchases, and under the conditions as reported to the Board, and accordingly authorised the Town Clerk to complete the bargain on behalf of the Board.

( Taken from the Minutes of the Burial Board 1890 )

The Cemetery was built and opened for burials by 1894.

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