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Scheduled Monuments in England

Every scheduled monument in England, from the chalk downlands of Wiltshire to the Roman walls of Hadrian — all 20,000 sites of national importance protected by Historic England.

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Historic counties of England

Scheduled monuments in England, grouped by historic county. Counts derived from the National Heritage List for England dataset.

Bedfordshire154Berkshire211Buckinghamshire200Cambridgeshire195Cheshire247Cornwall1,568Cumberland509Derbyshire507Devon1,777Dorset994Durham166Essex328Gloucestershire538Hampshire795Herefordshire261Hertfordshire183Huntingdonshire91Kent457Lancashire258Leicestershire191Lincolnshire553Middlesex111Norfolk423Northamptonshire230Northumberland1,020Nottinghamshire170Oxfordshire215Rutland30Shropshire456Somerset739Staffordshire301Suffolk349Surrey198Sussex671Warwickshire209Westmorland296Wiltshire1,353Worcestershire167Yorkshire2,816
About this register

National Heritage List for England

The 20,000 scheduled monuments in this register are drawn from the National Heritage List for England. Each scheduled monument is a site formally recognised by law as being of national importance — protected against development, metal detecting, and unauthorised disturbance.

Scheduling is the primary mechanism by which England's archaeological heritage is protected. Sites range from Neolithic burial chambers and Bronze Age field systems to medieval castles and post-medieval industrial remains — spanning over 10,000 years of human activity.

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Pick any location and Aubrey pulls together 15 strands of its history, each drawn from the record:

Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
Spotlight
A deep dive into the most remarkable, lesser-known history of the place, traced back to the record.
Target Zones
For detectorists: the most promising ground to search nearby, ranked by confidence, with what to expect.
Timeline
The whole story of the location told era by era, from prehistory to the present day.
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