Dataset

Conservation area

Warning The data may be incomplete and not yet cover all of England. We're working to improve its availability and quality.

About this dataset

Total	11,876 Conservation areas
Data providers	115
Collector last ran on	2025-10-05
New data last found on	2025-09-30
Origin	Contains some data created by MHCLG. We are working to replace it with data from authoritative sources
Licence	Licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
Attribution	© Historic England 2025. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on [date]. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
Summary	This dataset contains the boundaries of conservation areas from Historic England, as well as other data found on data.gov.uk and currently contains a number of duplicate areas we are working to remove. It can be used for informing developers if their prospective development is going to be in a conservation area.

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