I do believe that once you are buried, you should rely on a long rest in peace and hopefully not be disturbed until the resurrection if you have been good.

I visit, once a year, the tomb of Jacob Forster, who died in 1796 aged 38, on the clifftop at Dunwich in Suffolk. When I first came across his tomb in the 90s he was some 20 paces from the edge of the clifftop. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints church, which has now fallen into the sea.

I visited his tomb some three years ago to find that Jacob is now seven paces from the cliff edge. I was concerned so visited his tomb last year and this year to find he is still seven paces. Wow! No erosion over three years. When I visited in the ’90s the beach was sandy but now it has a pebble/shingle beach which is holding back the erosion, and that is good.

When I first visited St Mary’s, the old church at Stoke Mandeville, a few years ago, I was amazed such a place existed. I took people there to tell them about the church, which was built in the 12th century. There are a few headstones left that remind us that it once served the community before it was abandoned. Its demise certainly started when the new church was built in 1886 nearer the village and the old church fell into ruin.

The old church of St Mary’s is in an isolated position well away from the village now and oddly enough does not appear on maps. There used to be a sign pointing to its location but that has gone now.

I’m now concerned this ancient and sacred site will be lost forever – not to nature or erosion but to HS2.

So Ashwell Christmas, Jerimiah Price, James and Tabitha Fleet, Thomas and Maria Gunnry, Thomas and Ann Bennion, Thomas and Mary Poulton, James Whitchurch and the Webbs will not have a say and will have to be lifted from their graves and put where?

Not to mention the thousands more without tombstones.

Will they be lifted with respect? — Clive O’Sullivan, by email