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Volunteers launch Devon church graveyard database

A lottery-funded project to record thousands of memorial inscriptions from headstones in a churchyard in Devon has come to fruition.

A dedicated group of volunteers has spent two years deciphering the inscriptions on ancient and weathered headstones at

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