The Heritage Gateway
If you want to look at Historic Environment Record data online, you can! The Leicestershire & Rutland HER has been online via the Heritage Gateway since January 2010. The Heritage Gateway is an English Heritage led project to put all sorts of historic environment data online. This includes data from English Heritage websites such as Pastscape, Viewfinder and the National Heritage List as well as Historic Environment Records across the country. At present over 50% of HERs have published data online in this way.
Our web enhancement project
Our data enhancement project has, so far, enabled us to put over 70% of our HER records online (over 12,500 records). We are adding further records to the Heritage Gateway on a regular basis. Various records across the whole of Leicestershire and Rutland have been published online, including all of the records we have for the boroughs of Melton and Oadby & Wigston. The online records do not include everything we hold here at county hall but they provide a good summary. Although you will find some records online for all parishes, only the parishes listed below have been completed!
What's online in...
...Blaby?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Blaby, Braunstone, Countesthorpe, Enderby, Glen Parva, Glenfield, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester Forest East, Leicester Forest West, Narborough, Stoney Stanton, Whetstone.
...Charnwood?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Anstey, Barkby Thorpe, Barrow upon Soar, Beeby, Birstall, East Goscote, Hoton, Loughborough, Mountsorrel, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Rothley, Seagrave, Shepshed, Sileby, Walton on the Wolds, Wanlip.
...Harborough?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Allexton, Arnesby, Ashby Magna, Ashby Parva, Billesdon, Bittesby, Broughton Astley, Bruntingthorpe, Burton Overy, Carlton Curlieu, Frisby, Gaulby, Great Bowden, Hallaton, Horninghold, Houghton on the Hill, Illston on the HIll, Keyham, Kibworth Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt, King's Norton, Knaptoft, Little Stretton, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Mowsley, Rolleston, Scraptoft, Shangton, Shearsby, Smeeton Westerby, South Kilworth, Stoughton, Thurnby and Bushby, Tugby and Keythorpe, Welham, Westrill and Starmore, Willoughby Waterleys.
...Hinckley & Bosworth?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Bagworth & Thornton, Barwell, Burbage, Earl Shilton, Groby, Higham on the Hill, HInckley, Market Bosworth, Nailstone, Sheepy, Stanton-under-Bardon, Stoke Golding, Witherley.
...Melton?
Everything is online!
...NW Leics?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Appleby Magna, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bardon, Breedon on the Hill, Castle Donington, Coalville, Ellistown and Battleflat, Hugglescote and Donington le Heath, Ibstock, Isley cum Langley, Kegworth, Lockington-Hemington, Osgathorpe, Packington, Snarestone, Thringstone, Whitwick.
...Oadby & Wigston?
Everything is online!
...Rutland?
Work has been completed on the following parishes:
Ayston, Barrow, Belton-in-Rutland, Braunston-in-Rutland, Essendine, Glaston, Great Casterton, Gunthorpe, Langham, Little Casterton, Lyddington, Martinsthorpe, Oakham, Preston, Ryhall, Seaton, Stretton, Tinwell, Uppingham.
A brief note about the limitations of searching via administrative location areas: 'Non-Civil Parishes' (NCPs) such as Loughborough and Coalville are not in the list. New parishes 'Thringstone' and 'Hugglescote and Donington le Heath' are not in the list. If you do a map search the Gateway will find information for these parishes.
Page Last Updated: 14 May 2013
