The Howff is in the centre of Dundee, a short walk from the main shopping thoroughfares. I know very little about the history of this burial ground other than what I’ve read on Wikipedia. Briefly, The Howff (which means ‘meeting place’ or ‘enclosed open space’) was originally land granted to a Franciscan monastery before 1547 (I can’t find the exact year). Originally, it was used as a garden by the monastery but then granted to Dundee as a place of burial by Mary Queen of Scots in 1564 after the Monastery burnt down in 1547. Since then it’s become the resting place for some 80,000 of Dundee’s residents.