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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