UK Heritage Tagging

Tagging recommendations for UK heritage data.

Battlefields
Location or area of a historic military engagement. See also
 * historic=battlefield
 * english_heritage:id=
 * name= (optional)
 * date= (optional)

Listed Buildings
Legally protected buildings under UK law Other tags that can be used include tourism=attraction, etc.
 * building=
 * listed_building=
 * listed_building:ref=
 * name= (optional)

Parks and Gardens
An area listed in "Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England"

Historic sites may be tagged with leisure=garden, place=locality, tourism=attraction, leisure=park depending on land use.
 * historic_garden=
 * historic_garden:id=
 * name= (optional)

Protected Wreck Sites
TBD

Scheduled Monuments
A scheduled ancient monument protected under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

This may be combined with associated tags such historic=archaeological_site, historic=ruins, historic=castle, tourism=attraction, etc.
 * scheduled_monument=yes
 * scheduled_monument:id=

World Heritage Sites
TBD

Source Tag
Data that was derived from English Heritage datasets should be attributed as:

source=english_heritage_opendata

Roman Roads
Some roman roads are shown on OS Streetview, 7th series and NPE. They are distinctive in being very straight.

historic=roman_road

Examples
Historic parkland with current mixed usage:


 * historic_garden=II*
 * historic_garden:id=1001174
 * name=Orchards
 * source=english_heritage_opendata
 * place=locality

Historic archaeological site:


 * name=Medieval moated site of Guildford Park Manor, Manor Farm
 * scheduled_monument=yes
 * scheduled_monument:id=1012785
 * english_heritage_opendata=english_heritage_opendata
 * historic=archaeological_site