Historic Environment Record Contact Information
<< Back to HER Index Cheshire Historic Environment Record
Host Local Authority:
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Other Local Authority areas covered by HER:
Cheshire East Council
Halton Borough Council
Warrington Borough Council
Contact information for key staff:
Access to HER information:
Location:
Archaeology Planning Advisory Service
Planning and Placemaking
NicholasHouse, 1 BlackFriars, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 2NU
Office National Grid Reference: SJ40316604
Visitor Facilities:
The HER currently has no visitor facilities.
Range of information available:
Historic Environment Record database and associated physical resources which include:
- Scheduled and unscheduled archaeological sites, find-spots and buildings
- Listed Buildings
- Registered Parks and Gardens
- Registered Battlefields
- Historic Landscapes
- Unpublished archaeological reports
- Unpublished building surveys
The Historic Environment Record also holds
- Archive and reports for the Cheshire Historic Towns Survey
- Archive data and reports for the Cheshire Historic Landspace Characterisation
- A small library which includes local sources, monographs and periodicals
- A limited selection of historic maps and town plans
- A wide range of aerial photographs:
- oblique photographs taken for specific archaeological purposes;
- historic aerial photographs dating from the 1940s;
- small scale vertical surveys taken ahead of major infrastructure projects;
- and the major county surveys which have been flown approximately every ten years since 1970.
Access to a selection of the aerial photographs and historic maps held by the Archaeology Planning Advisory Service is available via the Cheshire and Chesher Archives and Local Studies eMapping Victorian Cheshire: Tithe Maps Online website.
Information correct as at 05 July 2023
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