Those nice people at the Cornwall Inscriptions Project have confirmed that a particular memorial exists, they may even have supplied you with a full transcript and photo. Now you want to visit or obtain a full record of the memorials location.

Have you ever entered a large burial ground looking for a particular memorial ? you are excited, it is raining, the vegetation has overgrown everything, the memorials are worn and you cannot easily read the inscriptions. the family are sitting in the car. You have limited time, it is the trip of a lifetime, perhaps never to be repeated.

During the survey of the larger burial grounds CIP prepare a sketch map. This is a great aid to finding a memorial without too much heartache. The sketch maps show the boundaries of the burial ground, entrance gates and paths, location of buildings and memorial references.

Below is a section taken from the location plan for St. Day (63) churchyard. The full map is too large to reproduce on the web. The numbers are the reference allocated by CIP for each headstone. There are almost 1000 memorials in this churchyard. If you are looking for the headstone of Joseph Trewartha who died in 1863 CIP would be able to tell you that it is located at St Day and has reference 100. Armed with the sketch plan showing the approximate location, you would rapidly find the headstone at the north east corner of the old church.