The Church has a need for a scale map of the churchyard on which individual graves can be identified. There are two possible ways of doing this it seems: The members of the PCC spend the rest of their lives in the churchyard with a large clipboard and a long tape measure OR aerial photography is used to record the layout.
Contact has been made with Andy Crowhurst of Overshoot Photos (Tel. 01628 56 99 22) who uses drones which hover at moderate height over the site and take a number of photographs which can be digitally stitched. He has made the suggestion that if a number of customers in this parish wish to have such cover on the same visit the costs could to some degree be shared. A complication might be that the churchyard needs to be photographed NOW before the trees come into leaf so that gravestones can be more clearly seen. Overshoot Photos can be found on their useful web-site.
If you might be interested please let me know, including your postcode, so that he can consider the options. Harry Tubbs, Tel. 01453 860 194.