The Plan which accompanies this record, was prepared from a survey carried out by members of the transcribing team, during the transcription. It includes all the visible monuments in the church and graveyard.

The Numbering System used to identify the graves, splits the church and graveyard into ten sections, designated by the initial letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, R and W. This letter is followed by a number of three digits indicating the individual grave within the section.
The Sections are:

A

The north-western area of the graveyard, coloured pink on the plan.

B

The south-western area of the graveyard, coloured green on the plan.

C

The church itself, coloured grey on the plan.

D

The late Victorian area of the graveyard, coloured violet on the plan.

E

The early Victorian area the graveyard, coloured turquoise on the plan.

F

The area of the graveyard to the south of the church, coloured blue on the plan.

G

The area of the graveyard to the south-east of the church, coloured lilac on the plan.

H

The area of the graveyard to the north-east of the church, coloured pale rose on the plan.

R

The cremation area of the graveyard, coloured light brown on the plan.

W

The area containing the War Memorials, coloured grey on the plan.

The Convention Used when recording the inscriptions, is the standard method, whereby only the surname is shown in capital letters, with the rest of the inscription in lower case. There is no attempt to follow the capitalisation, or typeface, of the original inscription. Capitalisation of initial letters of names and the start of sentences follows modern practice. All punctuation visible on the stone is transcribed as accurately as possible, within the limitations of the computer typeface. In certain cases a compromise has to be made. Most noticeably, many stones have the word "ye" written as a small "e", directly above the "y". This is represented here with the "e" as a superscript, immediately following the "y", thus: y^e.

Where part of a stone is not decipherable square brackets are used to indicate missing letters or words, thus [ ]. If the spacing of the surrounding letters gives a clue to the number of missing letters these will be marked within the bracket thus: [_ _ _]. If a letter is in doubt, it will be placed in square brackets in the same way, or possible alternatives may be indicated, thus: Died 187[0 or 6].

In traditional paper and fiche transcripts the "/" symbol is used to indicate line ends, in order to save space. In this CD version, space is not at a premium and the lines are placed as found on the stone. However no attempt is made to fit the modern type to the correct line lengths and all the lines are centred. The true layout can usually be judged from the photograph.

Additional Information about the grave, is shown in italics. Normally this consists of a brief description of the grave, preceding the inscription. In some cases further information may be added, in italics, following the inscription. This is often information from the Burial Register, indicated thus: BR.etc.. This is only included where it adds information, or confirms or contradicts something read from the stone.

Grateful Thanks are due to the following people for giving us permission to carry out the recording and for offering us their help and encouragement.

Margaret Dixon

Vicar of North Leigh, for permission to transcribe the monuments.

Pat Brown and Dave Broughton

Church Wardens, for permission to transcribe the monuments.

Alan Simpson

of the OFHS, for providing the methodology and the technical wherewithal to carry out the work.

The Team Members who carried out the transcription were, in alphabetical order: Elizabeth Cleary, Andrew Dixon, John Glanville, Robert Kyte, Steve Legg, Margaret Lupton, and Martin Shann and Harry St John.