Visit History
Discover history everywhere. Remember every visit.
Visit History was born from a simple idea: keeping track of the amazing historic sites we'd visited. Too often, we struggled to remember when - or even if - we'd been to a particular castle or stately home.
From there, Visit History grew into something more. Wouldn't it be great to see all the sites in one app, mapped out and searchable by distance or name?
What you'll find
- Over 400,000 historical sites from the National Heritage List for England, managed by Historic England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, battlefields, wrecks, and more
- Sites managed by national organisations, based on publicly available data
- Featured sites curated by us and our community
- Your personal history: the places you've visited and the ones on your wishlist
Discover history everywhere. Remember every visit.
The National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England.
It contains over 400,000 sites over the several categories:
- Listed buildings
- Scheduled monuments
- Registered parks and gardens
- Registered battlefields
- World Heritage Sites (WHS)
Sites managed by national organisations
Whilst not affiliated with any other organisation, we have curated publicly available data for around 1,200 sites managed by English Heritage, National Trust and Historic Houses with more to be added soon.
Whilst each organisation's individual app has amazing benefits, it can be difficult to get the complete picture of all the historic sites around you without looking at several apps simultaneously. Visit History aims to be a companion app, helping you to get the best out of all the historic sites whoever manages them.
There are also a small but growing number of featured sites suggested by our users and curated by us. Why not suggest your favourite historic site, museum or place of interest?
Site information
Tap a site to see more information. You can also record a visit or add the site to your wishlist.
The details page also shows comments from other users, as well as user photographs.
Your visits and wishlist
Never forget a visit. Been there? Mark it. Want to go? Add it to your wishlist. Visit History keeps track so you don't have to.
Capture the moment. Record when you visited and jot down your thoughts - share them with the community or keep private notes just for yourself.
Preserve your memories. Add photos by snapping them in the app or uploading from your device. Every image is stored securely in the cloud and on your device, so your memories are always safe.
You're in control. Choose what to share and what to keep private - every photo, every note. It's your history.
Map overlays
Visit History offers four map overlays to help you explore historic sites in a whole new way.
- OpenStreetMap — The default view. A detailed, community-built map showing roads, landmarks, and place names.
- Satellite — Aerial imagery from Esri World Imagery, giving you a real-world view of the landscape around each site.
- LiDAR DSM — Digital Surface Model. A laser-scanned elevation map of England that captures everything on the ground, including trees, buildings, and structures. Often reveals earthworks and features invisible to the naked eye.
- LiDAR DTM — Digital Terrain Model. Similar to the DSM but with surface objects stripped away, showing only the bare ground. Ideal for spotting subtle archaeological features like ditches, banks, and buried remains.
LiDAR data is provided for England by the Environment Agency at 1 metre resolution and is particularly powerful when exploring scheduled monuments and earthwork sites.
Subscription Features
Ad-free access to every dataset. Explore over 400,000 sites from the National Heritage List for England, plus managed sites from national organisations - all without interruption.
More history, coming soon. Your subscription unlocks future datasets as we add them, including:
- National Trust for Scotland
- Canmore - Scotland's national database of historic sites, buildings, and archaeology
- Cofnod Cymru (Memory of Wales) - the Welsh equivalent of England's NHLE
Your memories, safely stored. Secure cloud storage for all your visit data and photos, so nothing gets lost.
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Discover history everywhere. Remember every visit.
New to Visit History?
Our user guide walks you through the map, filters, overlays, recording visits and more — everything you need to get started.
Read the user guide →Latest blog posts
4 April 2026
Explore Historic Sites with LiDAR Map Overlays
Visit History has added two new LiDAR map overlays for England, revealing hidden archaeology and earthworks invisible to the naked eye.
11 March 2026
Visit History Is Now Available on iOS
Visit History has launched on the App Store. iPhone and iPad users can now explore over 400,000 historic sites across England and Wales.
27 February 2026
Latest Update: New Datasets and Location Search
Visit History adds Historic Royal Palaces and Cadw sites from Wales, plus the ability to search for historic places near any location on the map.
22 February 2026
Where Do We Get Our Data?
A look at the organisations behind the data in Visit History - Historic England, English Heritage, National Trust, and Historic Houses.
19 February 2026
Welcome to Visit History
Visit History is now available on Android. Here's what we've built and what's coming next.
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