A historic atlas of England is being published online for the first time, showing how ancient parish and county boundaries have changed over the past 500 years. History website ancestry.co.uk said its ...

A new type of heat map was introduced in the UK and it maps out, quite literally, the heating needsof the entire country. While designed to help implement heating infrastructure like district heat ...

A rare edition of one of the most important maps ever made has been found by archivists and made available online. The 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, made by William Smith, was initially ...

Signs marking traditional English county boundaries are due to return, but the distinction between historic and administrative divisions can be hugely confusing. Do you know which county you live in?

Over the centuries England's green and pleasant land has been the sight of some grim and bloody fighting. Factions battling over territory and the right to rule the nation have clashed the length and ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

England's sewage crisis was laid bare today by a new real-time map revealing which river sections are downstream of discharges from storm overflows. Spills into lakes, rivers and seas by water firms ...

They provide a home for birds and insects, keep soils healthy and even help the fight against climate change. Now, due to their importance to the English countryside, scientists have created the most ...