Description
The Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) is the most comprehensive available index to Herefordshire's historic environment. It is an integral part of the county archaeological service (Herefordshire Archaeology), maintaining over 31,000 records relating to the historic environment. The SMR consists of a paper and computerised record of all known archaeological and historic sites in Herefordshire, and spans the full range of human activity in the county, from earliest prehistory through to the 20th century. It aims to record everything significant about the historic environment in the county.
Service Host organisation
Herefordshire Council
Local authorities covered
Contact information
- Name
- HER Enquiries
- Job Title
- Telephone Number
- Email Address
- [email protected]
- Name
- Peter Reavill
- Job Title
- HER Officer
- Telephone Number
- 01432 260130
- Email Address
- [email protected]
Further information
- Address
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Postal address: Herefordshire Archive and Record Centre
Fir Tree Lane
Rotherwas
Hereford
HR2 6LA
Visiting
- Opening hours
- 10.00am to 1.00pm Tuesday– Thursday (by appointment only) 10.00am to 4.00pm Friday (by appointment only)
- Visitor facilities
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Desks; layout space, computer terminal; photocopying; mapping (modern & historical); publication library, including books, monographs, periodicals and grey literature; oblique and vertical aerial photography; parking; disabled access; Wifi.
- Information available
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Herefordshire Historic Environment Record (HER) is the most comprehensive available dataset on Herefordshire's historic environment. The HER is based around a Geographic Information System (GIS) database and consists of paper and digitised records of all known heritage sites in Herefordshire, spanning the full range of human activity in the county; from the Palaeolithic to modern heritage. Records have been drawn from a wide variety of sources; grey literature reports of archaeological fieldwork; publications; periodicals and journals; historical maps; aerial photography; geophysical and LIDAR data; national lists; current academic work and antiquarian field notes. All these information sources are publicly accessible at the Herefordshire Archives and Record Centre (HARC) as part of the HER reference collection. Much of it is also available via the 'Historic Herefordshire Online' website, which allows access to the HER database and mapping. There is also the Historic Fieldnames and Landowners database, and a range other material relating to the heritage and archaeology of Herefordshire on the website.