I'm kept nearby at regular intervals to follow church burial plot (8)
I believe the answer is:
cemetery
'burial plot' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'i'm kept nearby at regular intervals to follow church' is the wordplay.
'at regular intervals' indicates alternate letters.
'to follow' means one lot of letters go next to another (some letters go after or follow others).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'im'+'kept'+'nearby'='imkeptnearby'
The alternate letters of 'imkeptnearby' are 'metery'.
'metery' after 'ce' is 'CEMETERY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cemetery that I've seen before include "Graveyard" , "place of rest" , "place of mourning" , "Burial ground" , "Place for burial of bodies" .)