Actual Education Interactive Guided Tours

Greyfriars Kirkyard - The Interactive Guided Tour

The story of Greyfriars Bobby is known throughout the world thanks to two films about the dedicated little terrier. What many visitors don't realise is that Greyfriars has more to offer...much more! You'll get to 'meet' some of the most famous people in Edinburgh's history. There are over 150,000 people buried here and we've got some fascinating stories!

What You Get

When you buy this product you will be sent a well packaged CD-ROM in a DVD case. This contains your CD-ROM. Each of our CD-ROMs are copied by ourselves and individually tested before we ship them. They come presented with a printed glossy label. The DVD case comes with a professionally printed inserted cover. Our CD-ROMs are sold in shops throughout the United Kingdom and we hope our quality comes across to you.

Greyfriars Kirkyard Story Snippets
Find Out About...

• The cages built to stop the bodysnatchers
• A Jacobite who was buried with booze
• The Earl who lead a country, but lost his head
• The world's first media-covered golfer...and his grisly death
• The story of the infamous Covenanter's Prison
• ‘Bluidy Mackenzie' and his ‘haunted’ mausoleum

Greyfriars Kirkyard
Tour 1

We soon learn about Greyfriars Bobby - probably the most famous 'resident' in the whole burial ground, before going on to learn out about 'memento mori' - the symbols of death. Some tour guides tell their groups that this is because people from the Plague were buried nearby...you will find out the truth!

The Covenanters will forever be linked to Greyfriars Kirk and Kirkyard and we come to the Martyr's Monument which remembers their struggle to keep the Church of Scotland free from Royal influence. We also find out about how some Covenanter's died...

Next we ‘meet’ James Craig, designer of Edinburgh’s New Town. James Douglas, Earl of Morton, was once the most powerful man in Scotland but we find out why his tombstone is one of the most missed in the whole Kirkyard.

Greyfriars Kirkyard
Tour 2

The second leg of our tour starts at an obscure little tomb which hides a fascinating but violent past. This is the marker for the body of Captain John Porteous, captain of the old Town Guard, who played in the first ever game of golf to be covered by a newspaper but who was ultimately murdered by the ferocious Edinburgh Mob. We pass the Flodden Wall and the marker to the father of Sir Walter Scott before learning about William Carstairs and Alexander Henderson, men crucial to the history of Scotland.

Next come the man who dissected the body of the murderer William Burke and the printer of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. We pass the Covenanter’s Prison before learning about Sir George 'Bluidy' Mackenzie. Sir George's tomb was thought to be haunted and made a great place as a hideout...as you shall discover!

Greyfriars Kirkyard
Tour 3

In this tour get a chance to explore the exterior of Greyfriars Kirk. Highlights of this tour include the 'dancing skeleton' which visitors see on the facade of the church as they enter the grounds, the mortsafe built to deter bodysnatchers and the alcoholic, but fair, Duncan Forbes of Culloden.

Greyfriars Kirkyard
Tour 4

The Covenanters' Prison is generally off-limits to the public unless you are part of one of the popular ghost tours to the Kirkyard. This is also one of the least understood parts of the whole burial ground. The true story is revealed here and you're given access to most of this area - including the tomb dubbed the 'Black Mausoleum'! This part of the Kirkyard is usually only open for the excellent ghost tours which come into the atmospheric prison but with the 'Greyfriars Kirkyard Interactive Guided Tour' you get to visit anytime you want!

See some screenshots from our panoramic images at the "Greyfriars Kirkyard Interactive Guided Tour" Gallery.

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(Panoramic scene from our "Virtual Greyfriars Interactive Guided Tour". Use your mouse to control this scene. Double click to access the 'full screen' feature.)

(Video preview of our "Greyfriars Kirkyard Interactive Guided Tour")

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(Our "Greyfriars Kirkyard Interactive Guided Tour" CD-ROM cover)

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You may also be interested in the following Interactive Guided Tours;

The Edinburgh's History Collection - Interactive Guided Tours of Edinburgh's Old Town, including one tour around Edinburgh's other famous graveyards.