Greater Manchester Historic Environment Record
We were pleased to welcome Norman Redhead on Jan 4th 2007 to introduce us to the local development of the Greater Manchester Historic Environment Record, explain what records are kept and how they can be used and added to by the Project
Historically, Stockport Borough held the worst record in the Greater Manchester authority for Historic Environments Records. This was acknowledged as a serious deficiency, however, not only to identify threats to archaeology in planning decisions but also to form a cohesive conservation strategy, as it necessary to identify what is there before plans can be made for management (10 authorities within Greater Manchester handle approximately 20,000 planning applications each year)
Two years ago therefore £35,000.00 was allocated to enhance the database and store the records digitally on a tailored software package called ExeGesIS This is reflected nationally as the growing importance of the Historic Environment Record will lead it to be put onto a statutory footing later this year.
The following slides illustrate the levels of mapping detail :
Red dots represent traditional archaeological sites (field boundaries, farms, forts etc)
Blue Houses with stars represent listed buildings (including structures such as Canal Locks)
Yellow areas represent Conservation areas
Green triangles represent unlisted buildings of Historic interest, which are being increasingly recognised in the planning process.
Yellow stars represent find spots (such as flints, coins or an axe)
Mellor Heritage Project and the Historic Environment Record
The volunteers at Mellor will contribute to this record by entering the details of all the investigations and reserch carried out as part of the Mellor heritage Project. The Greater Manchester HER will not currently be available online, but Buckingham County Council have made theirs publicly available to view and search the records.
Text to accompany these images to follow shortly