ABSTRACT
The most dramatic changes in the landscape of commemoration would have happened during the first half of the 19th century, though the demand for new monuments continued to be strong, hence the need for the extension. But clearly the graveyard is now a very different landscape from that of the mid 19th century, and vastly different from that of the late 18th century. The new locales for rural burial altered the wider geography of remembrance, and provided more potential choices for interment. They thus took away some of the demand from the traditional churchyards, but this was still insufficient to stem the requirements of further grave spaces. Alternative burial modes are developing in some parts of Britain, such as woodland burial, which at least give the impression of a less regimented and more natural context for interment and remembrance, though they have to be commercially viable.
