A Pocket Guide: Discovering Welsh Graves

In this fascinating and well-illustrated Pocket Guide, the reader is taken on an unusual and rewarding guided tour of Wales, visiting the final resting places of more than 350 men and women (and one leg).  Most, but by no means all, of the characters we meet were Welsh, many were celebrated, some not, but all were interesting in one way or another.

 

In other books on this subject, Wales, if covered at all, has until now been consigned to a few pages at the end.  Discovering Welsh Graves seeks to address this deficiency.  The churchyards and cemeteries visited are grouped according to the current twenty-two unitary authorities and guidance is offered on the location of specific graves.

 

While descriptions of notable graves are included, and some are illustrated, the book is less about the graves themselves and more about the people buried in them.  It includes brief biographies of figures from the worlds of entertainment, music, sport, literature, politics, the military, business and religion as well as characters of local interest.