Historic environment and heritage

Thornbury Castle
The Historic Environment Service provides information and advice on the built environment. As well as archaeology, we deal with listed buildings, conservation areas and historic parks, gardens and landscapes.

Check out the museums and heritage pages - there are historic houses and gardens, country parks, community museums, industrial heritage centres and even mines which are open to the public and would welcome your visit.



Scheduled ancient monuments

Within South Gloucestershire there are 33 monuments which have national status and are known as...

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The urban design and heritage team

Information on the urban design and heritage team.

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Urban design

Find out what urban design covers.

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Heritage gateway

English Heritage is working in collaboration with ALGAO and IHBC in a five year project to build a...

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Heritage protection review white paper

The proposals for heritage protection for the 21st century, a joint England and Wales white paper,...

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Heritage trails

We publish, in partnership with the South Gloucestershire Heritage Forum, a series of leaflets...

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