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Open Data Hub

Historic England publishes open data via its Open Data Hub where you will find the following resources.

Download data from the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) through the Open Data Hub. This includes a range of formats and APIs. 

GIS spatial data is published by Historic England and is available free under the Open Government Licence. Read the Open Data Hub Terms and Conditions and Disclaimers.

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Listed building data

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England.

Scheduled monuments, parks and gardens, battlefields, wrecks and world heritage sites

De-Designated Sites

This dataset includes all the sites removed completely from the NHLE (i.e. this does not include partial delisting, removal of part of an area or removal of duplicate entries) since 4 April 2011. It includes all designation types included on the NHLE (i.e. Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments, Registered Parks and Gardens, Registered Battlefields and Protected Wrecks) but does not include World Heritage Sites.

Conservation Areas

Conservation Areas in England as designated by Local Planning Authorities and compiled by Historic England.

The Heritage at Risk Register

Updated annually, the Heritage at Risk Register provides an understanding of the overall state of England’s heritage assets. The data gives a dynamic picture of the sites most at risk and most in need of safeguarding for the future. 

It includes listed buildings of Grade I and Grade II*, Grade II places of worship, Grade II secular listed buildings in Greater London only, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, protected wrecks and conservation areas.

We provide Heritage at Risk data on a yearly basis and previous year’s data is available below.

Each year you will need to replace the previous year’s data in order for it to be correct.

Please make sure that you update the data each year otherwise you risk the data being incorrect.

If you wish to look at multiple year’s data, please make sure you save them separately in different layers.

If you wish to use our Heritage at Risk data for your own analysis, please use the source data provided on our website (either through the Open Data Hub or through the annual spreadsheets).

Do not data scrape our website for Heritage at Risk data. Harvesting the data via scraping will result in data anomalies as it includes historic data as well as the current data.

Greater London Archaeological Priority Areas

Archaeological Priority Areas (APAs) are areas where there is significant known archaeological interest or potential for new discoveries. APAs are used to help highlight where development might affect heritage assets.

Aerial Investigation Mapping data

Spatial data depicting archaeology that has been identified, mapped and recorded using aerial photographs and other aerial sources across England.

You can follow the instructions in this document to create a QGIS style file (.qml) to recreate our mapping symbology in QGIS.

Management Agreement grants for Field Monuments

Data for Management Agreement grants for Field Monuments.

Boundaries

Historic England regions and HER Boundaries

Funding Areas

Boundaries of areas for which funding has been available through HE programmes.

Local Authority Historic Environment Staffing Survey

The Local Authority Staffing Survey is an annual survey funded by Historic England. It is a survey of archaeology and conservation teams in local authorities in England, and teams not attached to authorities.

2022

2021

2020

Turning the Plough

This data examines the survival of ridge and furrow in a sample of parishes in the English Midlands; contrasting survival in 2012 with that recorded in the late 1990s. It was commissioned as part of the National Heritage Protection Plan and is a collaboration between English Heritage and Gloucestershire County Council.

Research Reports

Access to those reports within the Historic England Research Reports series that relate to geographically defined sites. For example, a building where a building assessment or dendrochronology has been carried out, or a field covered by a geophysical survey.

Data Downloads