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All Saints Church, Toftrees
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All Saints Church, Toftrees
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Church volunteers bring graves into the modern age

by Anna Rees Green

Volunteers from a church in Norfolk have made its gravesites more accessible, by launching a tombstone-tracking website.

Over 100 resting places have been photographed and catalogued by members of All Saints’ Church in Toftrees.

Churchwarden Colin Vogel said that it is too easy for grave information to become lost history.

“When people come to a church and wander around, they can't read some of the writing on a gravestone because over time they can be completely illegible,” he told the Fakenham Times. "Some can also be very difficult to find because there's a lot of graves and it's often tricky to remember exactly where one is.”

"The idea is that people don't even have to visit Toftrees to find this information, but those who do won't have any trouble,” Vogel added.

The grave of Charles and Emma Case at All Saints Church, Toftrees 

 The project was described as “a big team effort”, with eight volunteers giving their time to photograph and locate each stone.

The list consists of names buried as far back as 1603. Vogel said he hopes the website will "take parish records from centuries past right into the 21st century".

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