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The
Wolverhampton and Walsall Historic Environment Record
is now available online via an English Heritage
sponsored website - Heritage Gateway. The website is
not the most intuitive in the world so I have attached
some notes re: searching on it. If anyone has any
comments or new information about a particular record
there is a link on the record to contact myself.
The
Wolverhampton and Walsall Historic Environment Record
(WHER) is available at:
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/.
The WHER contains details of around 1500 historic
buildings, archaeological sites and landscapes in
Wolverhampton, ranging from the earliest times to the 20th
century.
The website
is provided by English Heritage and allows searches to
be made across a wide range of areas and for many
different types of site. For a specific site or
building go to Quick Search on the Home Page and type in
e.g. ‘Molineux Hotel’ and then click on the Search
button.
If you wish
to look at all of the records for a particular area
click on ‘Advanced Search’ at the bottom of the page.
On the ‘Advanced Search’ webpage there is an option to
look for all sites within a particular area. Go to
‘locate on map’’ .type eg ‘Wolverhampton’ into this,
then press Locate and then Search (Search will not work
unless you press Locate first).
If you wish
to see a location map for a particular site click on
that site to bring up a printout of the HER record for
that site and click on ‘Show location on Google Maps’.
Details of
more complicated Searches are given at ‘Help with
Searching’ on the left hand side of the ‘Advanced
Search’ web page.
If you have
any comments or amendments to suggest for any particular
record there is a link at the top of the record to
contact the WHER.
Mike Shaw |
