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Graveboards or Deadboards

Clues to a Respectful Past

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Graveboards

  • Deadboard in the undergrowth at Ewhurst Church, West Surrey

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Graveboards

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Ewhurst Church – facing

north

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Ewhurst Church memorial facing north

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Graveboards

Stoke Poges Church, Bucks

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Graveboards

  • Stoke Poges Church, Bucks –
  • gradual disintegration

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Graveboards

Turvey Church, Northants –

possibly the most northerly observation

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Graveboards

  • Croydon St John the Baptist Parish Church, c1866 – pre-dates the catastrophic fire of 1867!

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Graveboards or Deadboards

  • Reference
  • Trevor James, Patterns in Local History: Five Case Studies,
  • Lichfield Press, 2026 – chapter 2 has detailed analyses of my research data