News from Know Your Place – West of England
Know Your Place (KYP) is the digital heritage mapping project to help you to explore your neighbourhood online through historic maps, images and linked information. The Heritage Lottery funded project runs until June 2017 and will map the historic counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset.
Our partners
The project is led by South Gloucestershire Council in partnership with Gloucestershire County Council and colleagues within Gloucester City Council, with support and generous match-funding from the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives and the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, among others.
Map conservation and digitisation
Just over 1500 maps have been conserved and scanned from archives around the region, including 679 held at Gloucestershire Archives for the counties of Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.
Volunteer work
We have c.50 active volunteers working from home across the region who are preparing digitised map files. Volunteers have donated over 3182 hours – or 455 days – of work time to the project so far.
Thumbs up! Volunteers and staff at Gloucestershire Archives at training to add archival records onto Know Your Place, June 2016.
Already mapped
South Gloucestershire is already mapped on Know Your Place, covering an area of 537 square kilometres. Gloucestershire KYP and other county areas are in development and the project will map an estimated 18,190 square kilometres area in total!
This has made historic maps from Gloucestershire Archives and statutory Historic Environment Record data publicly accessible, and a variety of historic data records are now being mapped onto KYP by a range of individuals, local history groups, and volunteers at Gloucestershire Archives.
Exhibition in development
We are working with 24 different museum and heritage partners across the region to develop content for the exhibition and tour it to 12 venues from November 2016 to April 2017. Venues include Museum in the Park, Stroud; and Dean Heritage Centre in the Forest of Dean; and exhibition content for the Gloucestershire region has been offered by these as well as from Gloucestershire Archives, Corinium Museum, the Jet Age Museum and Thornbury & District Museum.
Know Your Place needs YOU!
Can you tell others about KYP? The more people that use it, the richer a resource it will become.
Can you help us map the heritage of your area? Share your research on KYP – It is quick and easy to add a record.
Further information about the project, tips on exploring KYP and a link to the map can be found on our project website: www.kypwest.org.uk.
News
Receive the latest project news and developments at www.kypwest.org.uk/newsletter/; follow us @KYPWestEngland on Twitter and Facebook; or email enquiries to: kypwestofengland@southglos.gov.uk
You can view our Gloucestershire Archives blog here at https://gloucestershirearchives.wordpress.com/