Description
The City of York Historic Environment Record is maintained by the City of York Council. The City of York has a well developed policy base designed to safeguard and enhance the historic environment. The Council promotes the recording, studying, managing and interpretation of and access to the historic environment. York is an internationally important historic City. York has more or less wholly-preserved remains typical of many periods and cultures, often, because of the depth of archaeological deposits that contain them, largely unaffected by subsequent developments. Its story is documented in unusually rich, varied and complete civic, ecclesiastical and private archives, in exemplary inventories including over 1700 listed historic buildings and scheduled monuments, and by extensive archaeological investigation and publication. Outside the historic core of the City, there are archaeological features and deposits relating to human activity from post-glacial exploitation through to monuments of the future such as the York Millennium Bridge. The City of York HER is your first point of access to this information.
Service Host organisation
City of York Council
Local authorities covered
Contact information
- Name
- Ian Milsted
- Job Title
- City Archaeologist
- Telephone Number
- 01904 551402
- Email Address
- [email protected]
Further information
- Address
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Place Directorate, Design and Conservation, City of York Council West Offices
Station Rise
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 6GA
Visiting
- Visitor facilities
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No visitor facilities. All requests for HER information should be made on the online HER form
- Information available
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Archaeological sites and finds including fieldwork reports, mapping and photographs; industrial and listed buildings descriptions, including reports on building recording exercises, photographs, etc Conservation Area descriptions and appraisals; historic landscape characterisation information. Please note: All data is available only as electronic documents apart from aerial photographs. Aerial photographs held by City of York Historic Environment Record are available for public consultation but an appointment must be made in advance. All other HER enquiries should be made by e-mail to [email protected]. Commercial consultations are charged a fee of £105 per hour.