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