The cemetery of St. John The Baptist Churchyard serves the small village of Pawlett, Somerset England, as it has done for almost 1000 years from when it housed a Grade I listed church with Norman origins (i.e. 11th-12thCentury). There is evidence the churchyard may have had even earlier Christian origins and the Norman church may have been preceded by an earlier Anglo-Saxon church, serving the village which has an Anglo-Saxon name. It is even possible the origins are even earlier to Roman times, perhaps even leading to early Christian times, as there is evidence of Roman occupation with artefacts found in the village that span the 1st to 4th Centuries. The village was also sited on Roman route that traversed the village, passing the current boundaries of the Church, and connecting the Pawlett Hams (named in the Domesday book as Pavelet, and which had a Roman port and has since then been a crossing point via a ford to Combwich and Cannington until the 20th Century) through to the Polden Hills that were crossed by a main route in Roman times.

It is a humble churchyard and in 2025 the Pawlett Area History Group (PAHG) embarked on a project to catalogue and add every recorded memorial in the Churchyard and seeks to add to this through other record sources commonly used by genealogists. Some of the earliest tombs in the churchyard date from the 1700s and there are more memorials within the church itself that the PAHG hope to add, as relevant, to FindAGrave in due course. The fruits of the labours of everyone involved will hopefully be evident to visitors of this site in search of their forebears.