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| Mapping |
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| Cheshire County Council: Interactive Mapping |
Highly detailed maps showing CP boundaries, school catchment areas, parliamentary constituencies, public footpaths, registered parks and gardens, etc |
"Help" tab gives url for specific maps |
| Election maps |
Parliamentary constituencies |
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| OS Get-a-map |
OS maps including 1:25,000 |
Search by postcode, place name, grid reference |
| Nature on the Map |
Maps showing SSSIs, NNRs, agri-environmental schemes etc |
Most but not all subpages of website non-functional (as of 2008) |
| Population |
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| Neighbourhood Statistics |
Modern census data |
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| History |
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| Genuki |
Historical CP information, parish churches, historical census data |
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| Vision of Britain through Time |
Historical CP information, detailed historical census data, historical gazetteer links |
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| British History Online: Cheshire |
History of Chester, religious houses |
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| Cheshire County Council |
Tithe Maps of Cheshire |
Need to find out what will happen to these when the local government changes happen in 2009. |
| Gough Map |
Interactive version of map of Britain dating from 1355–66 |
Checking "places" under "Layers" gives English names of places marked |
| Photographs |
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| Geograph |
CC-licensed images by gridsquare |
Coverage of England now almost total, though quality is variable. Search by name with gazetteer available, but gridsquare search is much quicker. |
| Specific topics |
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| Cheshire Libraries Virtual Reference Library |
Online resources incl. Times Digital Archive, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Art Online |
Cheshire library card required |
| Images of England |
Listed buildings |
Registration required for most searches. Online search engine often fails to find items, so not a good sole source for exhaustive lists. |
| PastScape |
Archaeology, architecture |
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| UK Database of Historic Parks and Gardens |
Listed parks/gardens |
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| Public Monument & Sculpture Association |
Scheduled ancient monuments, public sculptures |
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| UK National Inventory of War Memorials |
War memorials |
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| Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture |
Medieval British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture, c. 1066–1200 |
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| Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi |
Stained glass |
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| RHS Garden finder |
Gardens open to the public |
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| Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
Ramsar sites, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas |
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| Local government |
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| Cheshire County Council |
Schools, libraries, museums, cycle/horse riding routes etc |
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| Chester City Council |
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| Congleton |
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| Crewe & Nantwich |
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| Ellesmere Port & Neston |
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| Halton |
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| Macclesfield |
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| Vale Royal |
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| Warrington |
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