National Heritage List for England

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The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, and registered battlefields. The list is maintained by Historic England, a government body, and consolidates these different designations into a single resource, even though they vary in the type of legal protection they afford. Although World Heritage Sites are not designated by Historic England, they also appear on the NHLE. Conservation areas, however, do not appear, as they are designated by the relevant local planning authority. The passage of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 established the first element of what is now the list, granting protection to 50 prehistoric monuments. Subsequent amendments to the act increased the level of protection and added more monuments. Beginning in 1948, the Town and Country Planning Acts introduced the concept...

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