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About Us

Place Services manage and maintain the Essex Historic Environment Record on behalf of Essex County Council, and other local planning authorities in the county. The Essex HER is the most complete, computerised database of heritage assets in Essex, containing more than 40,000 records from the earliest occupation of the area, through to the Cold War. It is a public resource and we encourage free access to this vital source of archaeological, historic landscape and historic building information for academic or private research.

Our Address

We are located 30 miles north-east of London, in the heart of the lively and thriving city of Chelmsford.

Place Services
Essex County Council
County Hall
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1QH

0333 013 6840

historic.environment@essex.gov.uk

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