Category: Historic England

Historic England Updates Local Heritage Listing Guidance

Historic England has published the third editon of its ‘Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage. Historic England Advice Note 7’. Local heritage lists are ‘lists of non-designated heritage assets (NDHAs) which, due to their local heritage significance, have been identified as being of value to a particular place and the community who live…

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Stockton & Darlington Railway HELM Webinar

Historic England’s next free industrial heritage webinar takes place on 23 Oct, from 1300 to1400. This is HE’s second webinar to focus on the Stockton and Darlington Railway Heritage Action Zone. They will be exploring the successes and challenges of the different strands of work undertaken, including designation, repair, re-use and community engagement, as well…

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Seven Sites Listed to Celebrate Railway 200 Anniversary

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England, have listed five heritage railway stations, alongside two other railway sites, in recognition of their historic and architectural interest and to mark 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in September 1825. All the sites have been given…

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Historic England Launches Heritage Investment Prospectus to Regenerate 17 Sites

Historic England launched its Heritage Investment Prospectus, at the UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF), on the 21 May. This showcases historic sites where owners are actively seeking investment partners or buyers. Underused historic buildings across England could be given a new life through this investment initiative by Historic England, and many of…

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Heritage Art Risk Capital Fund 2025

Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk Capital Fund is a special 1-year, £15 million, fund to give grants to heritage at risk, helping people to save the historic sites in England that are most important to them. Designed to be spent in areas with an index of Multiple Deprivation of 1, 2, or 3, this funding…

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Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings to Join English Heritage

Historic England have annoucned that they will be handing over the visitor attraction at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings to the care of English Heritage from the 1st April 2025. The visitor experience at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings will become part of the charity’s 400-strong portfolio of historic attractions, welcoming thousands of potential new visitors. It will sit…

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