People carrying out research in Herefordshire should consult the sources listed below.

www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk   This website, the database holds information on a wide range of sites. For serious research the sources relating to the sites are the most important. Though light on detail it is important because it holds the complete picture, archaeology sites as well as modern sites. Holds aerial photographs and an on line field name and landowner dbase.

www.herefordshire.gov.uk   (council website, follow the links)For documents and maps from 1000AD to 1950. On line through the national sites of AccessToArchives (see below) Search room and library, open 9.15 to 16.45 Monday to Friday. Bartonsham Street, Hereford, HR12 2QX, 01432 260750, archives@herefordshire.gov.uk.

www.libraries.herefordshire.gov.uk

• local history book collection (not all are on the shelves, ask Librarian),
• collection of old maps,
• county aerial photographs (1947, 1:25,000)
• Alfred Watkin photographs and Old Straight Club archive,
• MS volumes and archive of Duncumb histories including the four unpublished hundreds of Stretford, Wigmore, Wolphy and Greytree,
• the MS of further early published Herefordshire histories by Blount, Parry, Williams, Webb, Bird and Hill,
• John Scarlett Davies letters,
• Guild minutes of the Mercers and Haberdashers Co.s in Hereford (17th-18th century),
• MSs in the Pilley Collection going back to the 13th century,
• some Scudamore MSs,
• about 200 antiquarian books.

Most of the above are not on the on line catalogue. They are on the card index;. Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AU, 01432 383600; (closed Monday)

www.herefordshire.gov.uk (council website, follow the links) social history, artefacts, learning and resource centre; 01432 342492 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

Woolhope Club Transactions

www.woolhopeclub.org.uk Local history journal held in all the main libaries, over 100 volumes beginning 1851, a huge range of topics are covered and you will find that whatever you are researching someone before you has done so too. There are index volumes.

Hereford pottery

www.worcestershireceramics.org for on line information on archaeological pottery found in the county.

The following National sources of information will also include Herefordshire information

The National Archives

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ many Herefordshire documents are held here, located in Kew, London. View the on line catalogue for information

Access to Archives

www.a2a.org.uk On line database of archive collections across the country. Many of the archives in Hereford Record Office are catalogued on this website.

The British Library

http://catalogue.bl.uk complete catalogue of published books on line, there are 1006 books with Herefordshire in the title.

The National Monuments Record

http://www.english-heritage.org.ukFollow the links to PASTSCAPES, a national database of historic sites. As a general rule it is less up to date, has less information and fewer sites than county SMRs but it covers the whole country.

Photographic Collection: The National Monuments Record

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk Follow the links to NMR. Based in Swindon, the largest collection of aerial, buildings, people and places photographs in the country. Free remote searches (follow link through 'Public Access'). Photos can be sent by post or seen in person. 01793 414600

Census and Other Data: Vision of Britain

www.visionofbritain.org.uk comprehensive data sets including population, poverty, industry, boundary changes and more.

Images of England

www.imagesofengland.org.uk Listed building information

MAGIC

www.magic.gov.uk Comprehensive data set of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), countryside designations (e.g. AONBs), scheduled monuments and more.

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