An NRHE data transfer progress update, September 2026
NRHE = National Record of the Historic Environment, formerly known as the National Monuments Record (NMR).
We have accessioned 89% of the NRHE records for our HER area - this equates to 10,795 NRHE records accessioned into the EHER in total. We have 1,387 further NRHE records to accession into the EHER before this part of our project is complete.
To date, 7,371 NRHE monument records and 3,424 NRHE event
records have been integrated into the EHER. While much of this information has
been integrated into existing EHER records, information from the NRHE has
resulted in the creation of 1,399 new monument records and 959 new event
records in the EHER. This equates to a new monument record for 19% of NRHE
monuments and a new event record for 28% of NRHE events. These records all
include information that was not previously recorded on the Essex HER. In addition,
all records from the NRHE include links to source records, many of which have
also been newly added to the Essex HER, reflecting the fact that we had not
previously had access to or been aware of these specific sources.
Geographically, accessioned NRHE records are located across
190 of our 194 quarter sheets, with only 4 quarter sheets (in the south of
Braintree District) having had no NRHE information added to them so far.
NRHE accessioning (all events and monuments) is complete for
118 quarter sheets, with a further 72 quarter sheets that are ‘in progress’. The
vast majority of these ‘in progress’ sheets have fewer than 5 ‘tricky’ records
that need further investigation before they can be considered to be fully
accessioned – this investigative work is taking place in tandem with further
enhancement of existing and new records.
The NRHE project has been supported by Historic England as part of their Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS) work strand, and they are very pleased with our progress to date. This piece of work will be complete by the end of this calendar year.
This graphic shows the accessioning of NRHE information
by quarter sheet. Quarter sheets in green are those where all NRHE records have
been fully accessioned. Quarter sheets in pink are those where NRHE records
have been accessioned but where there are a few ‘tricky’ records which require
further investigation. Blank quarter sheets (excluding those in Colchester) are
those where NRHE accessioning is about to start shortly.