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Announcing the launch of Know Your Place in Wiltshire, Bath & NE Somerset and Gloucestershire

Know Your Place project puts three more counties on the map For the first time, historic maps and heritage data of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Bath and North East Somerset are now freely available online in one place, thanks to the latest expansion of Know Your Place West of England. From Stonehenge to Swindon, Keynsham to the Cotswolds, Salisbury plain to […]

Volunteers Newsletter – September 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer news and developments from the Know Your Place – West of England project. From now on we’ll be sharing news with you every month, so do look out for this. Excellent progress! We have more than 50 volunteers involved with the project at the moment, […]

Puzzling jigsaws – creating the Know Your Place map layers

How are we creating the KYP map layers? Find out in the first of two posts on the matter.

What makes the Cut? Choosing maps for Know Your Place

Peter Insole reveals the selection criteria for maps added onto Know Your Place. Know Your Place (KYP) was created in 2011 with funding from English Heritage (now Historic England) with the intention of sharing as much information about the history of Bristol as possible. One of the main historic sources we wanted to make available […]