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:''This is intended as a template page for [[Wikipedia Loves Monuments]] regional pages, as well as being an actual working page'' | :''This is intended as a template page for [[Wikipedia Loves Monuments]] regional pages, as well as being an actual working page'' | ||
'''''What is a monument?''''' A Royal Commission on Monuments (now part of [[ | '''''What is a monument?''''' A Royal Commission on Monuments (now part of [[wikipedia:English Heritage|English Heritage]]) worked to a definition like: anything in the way of a construction illustrative of social history up to 1714; and anything subsequent that is notable and worth preserving. | ||
==Resources== | |||
*[http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/nmr National Monuments Register of English Heritage] This site offers spatial data downloads on | |||
** Listed Buildings | |||
** Scheduled Monuments | |||
** Registered Parks and Gardens | |||
** Registered Battlefields | |||
** World Heritage Sites | |||
** Protected Wreck Sites (not relevant to Cambridgeshire, which has no coastline. | |||
*Geograph. According to http://www.geograph.org.uk/statistics/coverage_by_county.php, Cambridgeshire has 3,054 standard 1 km grid squares covering it. The Geograph site aims to cover the country with a photographic record attached to each grid square. | |||
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cambridgeshire | |||
==Grid squares== | |||
For a given grid square, e.g. TL4568, how does one check "completeness"? | |||
Sample method: | |||
*http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TL4568 has 16 images. | |||
*On the other hand, it is possible to check that http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk, by means of its advanced search (requires registration), has 27 images for the square "TL 4568" (note space). | |||
[[Category:Wikipedia Loves Monuments]] | [[Category:Wikipedia Loves Monuments]] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:16, 17 December 2010
- This is intended as a template page for Wikipedia Loves Monuments regional pages, as well as being an actual working page
What is a monument? A Royal Commission on Monuments (now part of English Heritage) worked to a definition like: anything in the way of a construction illustrative of social history up to 1714; and anything subsequent that is notable and worth preserving.
Resources
- National Monuments Register of English Heritage This site offers spatial data downloads on
- Listed Buildings
- Scheduled Monuments
- Registered Parks and Gardens
- Registered Battlefields
- World Heritage Sites
- Protected Wreck Sites (not relevant to Cambridgeshire, which has no coastline.
- Geograph. According to http://www.geograph.org.uk/statistics/coverage_by_county.php, Cambridgeshire has 3,054 standard 1 km grid squares covering it. The Geograph site aims to cover the country with a photographic record attached to each grid square.
Grid squares
For a given grid square, e.g. TL4568, how does one check "completeness"?
Sample method:
- http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TL4568 has 16 images.
- On the other hand, it is possible to check that http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk, by means of its advanced search (requires registration), has 27 images for the square "TL 4568" (note space).