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Due to essential maintenance our online forms and Public Access (planning, building control and licensing online) service will be unavailable Saturday 22 June 2019 between approximately 9am and 1pm. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Museums and heritage

A Forgotten Landscape

This is a HLF funded landscape project to enhance and restore the natural and historic heritage of the Lower Severn Vale Levels from the border with Gloucestershire to Avonmouth.

Heritage Lottery funding for Winterbourne Medieval Barn

Our bid to restore and refurbish one of England’s great surviving medieval barns

Heritage walks and trails

A series of heritage trails in South Gloucestershire are available as pdfs. To follow the routes you can take by car, bus or on foot that include sites of particular interest

Inspiring women: the legacy of the First World War in South Gloucestershire

The project will explore and share personal stories about South Gloucestershire women to demonstrate how the events of 1918 were the spark that changed women’s lives forever.

Know Your Place

Know Your Place – West of England is a digital mapping project that is putting your neighbourhood’s heritage on the map.

Local History societies

Links to history societies in South Gloucestershire

Museum and heritage sites to visit

South Gloucestershire has a wide variety of heritage attractions and museums

Records and archives

How to research subjects relating to the history of South Gloucestershire.

South Gloucestershire Heritage Partnership meetings

Heritage Partnership meetings take place twice a year to share information on what is happening in the heritage sector within South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire Museums Group

South Gloucestershire Museums Group meetings take place about four times a year

South Gloucestershire Second World War stories

Join us in collecting and sharing life stories from the Second World War

South Gloucestershire in the First World War

Discover the stories of local people and how they were affected by war, one hundred years ago.

The Transport Archive

The Transport Archive tells the story of Britain's transport system since the eighteenth century

Victoria County History

An encyclopedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day

First World War and Second World War memorial information

Read more about the individuals remembered on your local war memorials.