Scheduled Monuments are Scotland’s nationally important historic monuments and sites. They are: "spread across the country and span around 8,000 years of human settlement." Scheduling is carried out by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), with its aim being: "to preserve our most significant sites and monuments as far as possible in the form in which they have been …
Scotland’s Historic Heritage
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) enables public access to a wealth of information on Scotland's historic environment via a number of websites and as open data. In particular, the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) is made available via Canmore which contains: "more than 320,000 records and 1.3 million catalogue entries for archaeological sites, buildings, …
Urban, Small Town and Rural Areas of Scotland
The Scottish Government Urban Rural Classification provides a standard definition of urban, small town and rural areas of Scotland. The most recent classification exercise was the 2016 Scottish Government Urban Rural Classification published in 2018. This classification is based on population and accessibility. PopulationUsing population statistics from the National Records of Scotland (NRS), four settlement …
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