Barbara Miles completed here survey of churchyard monuments about 15 years ago, and our records of the churchyard are becoming hard to use. So, from spring 2017 to 2019, a new survey was made.
The plan was:
- Make a reasonable map of the churchyard, showing every monument, good enough to be able to find each grave
- Reconcile Barbara’s survey with the new map, linking every monument Barbara found with a map reference, and noting where monuments have decayed or disappeared
- Survey all the new monuments and add them to Barbara’s data
- Photograph every monument (not completed yet)
- Link the monument survey data to the photographs and the map, to easily move between them online, and find the location and image of every grave from a browser (not completed yet)
- Produce a dead-tree printed form that can be kept at the church for people to use to find graves (in progress)
- Archive the survey data for future use, and produce a plan for updating the survey in future. (not completed yet)
The results are at https://village.eversholt.org.uk/eversholt-history/church-history/churchyard/eversholt-history-church-history-churchyard-eversholt-churchyard-survey-2019/
For reference, Barbara’s 1990s survey is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wsgiaujeikC-NnxQQuEMO0BOSIhRU4PIitwWY-CmMfc/edit?usp=sharing&authkey=CPWWo5ED