MAPPING BAMPTON: A JOURNEY IN SPACE AND TIME

APPENDIX: SOURCES FOR CHARACTERISATION

There are a core number of evidence bases that can be quickly consulted to gain an overview of the nature, level and extent of a heritage asset’s significance. This initial process is usually termed as a ‘Desk-based Assessment’, using a number of sources to build up an understanding of a heritage asset’s significance.

The shortlist below introduces some of key sources that I have used in this book:

• National Heritage List for England (NHLE)

• Historic Environment Records (HERs)

• Historic Maps

• Heritage Gateway

• Historic England Archives

• Historic England Selection Guides

• Local Archives and Record Offices

These resources are mostly available online. Increasingly local archives and record offices have digitised parts of their map collections. Other publicly available tools that can be used to find images, aerial photographs and maps include:

• Historic England Aerial Photography Explorer (APEX)

• Historic England ‘England’s Places’ (Formerly known as the ‘Red Box’ collection)

• Britain from Above

• Google Earth (Which includes a catalogue of historic aerial survey data dating back to its inception in 2001)

MAPPING BAMPTON: A JOURNEY IN SPACE AND TIME