The Beautiful Burial Ground Project, the first national database of burial sites in England and Wales will be created after winning a £586,700 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant was given to the charity Caring for God’s Acre, for a four-year project to “Create a bespoke database with interactive map where individual burial sites can be mapped, linking biological records to a particular site, easily accessed by all and linked to other national heritage databases”.
First national database of burial sites in England Wales to created