You can find burials included in many online parish registers. For
details, see Parish registers
online
At
Family History Online you
can view many transcriptions of gravestone inscriptions which have been
recorded by local family history societies. For details of the societies'
printed indexes and transcriptions, see the online bookshop
Genfair
At the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
site you can search a database detailing the place of burial or commemoration
of Commonwealth servicemen and women who died during the two world wars
The Bereavement Services
Portal web site cemetery has the beginnings of a section of scanned
records provided by crematoria and natural burial ground operators
A web site called Find a Grave
has mainly US records but does cover other countries too. It has several
thousand records from England. It includes a section on 'Famous people'