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| Mapping
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| Cheshire County Council: Interactive Mapping
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Highly detailed maps showing CP boundaries, school catchment areas, parliamentary constituencies, public footpaths, registered parks and gardens, etc
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"Help" tab gives url for specific maps
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| Election maps
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Parliamentary constituencies
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| OS Get-a-map
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OS maps including 1:25,000
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Search by postcode, place name, grid reference
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| Nature on the Map
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Maps showing SSSIs, NNRs, agri-environmental schemes etc
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As of 2010, this is fully functional again
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| CRoW Access maps
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Maps showing CRoW open access land
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Searches expire, so can't be used as static references
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| Population
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| Neighbourhood Statistics
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Modern census data
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| History
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| Genuki
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Historical CP information, parish churches, historical census data
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| Vision of Britain through Time
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Historical CP information, detailed historical census data, historical gazetteer links
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| British History Online: Cheshire
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History of Chester, religious houses
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| Cheshire County Council
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Tithe Maps of Cheshire
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Need to find out what will happen to these when the local government changes happen in 2009.
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| Gough Map
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Interactive version of map of Britain dating from 1355–66
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Checking "places" under "Layers" gives English names of places marked
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| Photographs
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| Geograph
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CC-licensed images by gridsquare
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Coverage of England now almost total, though quality is variable. Search by name with gazetteer available, but gridsquare search is much quicker.
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| Specific topics
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| Cheshire Libraries Virtual Reference Library
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Online resources incl. Times Digital Archive, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Art Online
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Cheshire library card required
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| Images of England
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Listed buildings
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Registration required for most searches. Online search engine often fails to find items, so not a good sole source for exhaustive lists.
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| PastScape
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Archaeology, architecture
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| UK Database of Historic Parks and Gardens
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Listed parks/gardens
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| Public Monument & Sculpture Association
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Scheduled ancient monuments, public sculptures
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| UK National Inventory of War Memorials
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War memorials
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| Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture
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Medieval British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture, c. 1066–1200
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| Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
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Stained glass
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| RHS Garden finder
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Gardens open to the public
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| Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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Ramsar sites, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas
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| County Rare Plant Register 2008
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Rare plants
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| Heritage at Risk Register (North West) 2009
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Buildings, structures, gardens, parks, conservation areas &c deemed "at risk"
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Excludes grade-II-listed buildings
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| Local government
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| Cheshire County Council
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Schools, libraries, museums, cycle/horse riding routes etc
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Most pages still archived; much material isn't duplicated by new UAs
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| Halton
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| Warrington
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