About City of York HER

City of York HER

The City of York Historic Environment Record is maintained by the City of York Council. The City of York has a well developed policy base designed to safeguard and enhance the historic environment. The Council promotes the recording, studying, managing and interpretation of and access to the historic environment. York is an internationally important historic City. York has more or less wholly-preserved remains typical of many periods and cultures, often, because of the depth of archaeological deposits that contain them, largely unaffected by subsequent developments. Its story is documented in unusually rich, varied and complete civic, ecclesiastical and private archives, in exemplary inventories including over 1700 listed historic buildings and scheduled monuments, and by extensive archaeological investigation and publication. Outside the historic core of the City, there are archaeological features and deposits relating to human activity from post-glacial exploitation through to monuments of the future such as the York Millennium Bridge. The City of York HER is your first point of access to this information.