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| Listed Buildings Near Sedbergh |
So in my travels to find GIS data for Cumbria I’ve been looking at national data sets. One interesting site I’ve found is from English Heritage who allow the download of ‘designation datasets’.
The following datasets can be downloaded in zipped folders containing ESRI shapefile format files:
- Listed Buildings
- Scheduled Monuments
- Registered Parks and Gardens
- Registered Battlefields
- World Heritage Sites
- Protected Wreck Sites
Ignoring the ESRI centric nature of the data for the moment this is a surprising lot of data to release, being a map man though I’m very happy!
As you can see from the screen captures (above and below) I’ve managed to extract the dataset and make it into something usable in Google Earth as a KML file. Of course you can equally use ArcGIS Explorer.
I’ve used this point shapefile data, excel and my knowledge of Images of England website to create clickable points map that brings up the building listing and if available the photograph. It’s really using the Listed Buildings ID and combining it with a search term to link through to the appropriate page on Images of England.
I’m slowly building up quite a dataset of Cumbrian related material, and combine that with the Portable Antiquities Scheme live datasets you can make some quite useful maps.
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| That’s a lot of listed buildings in Cumbria! |
