What is English Heritage?
[[Image:Englishheritagehq1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The former London headquarters of English Heritage at 23 [[Savile Row]]]]'''English Heritage''' is an organisation of the [[United Kingdom]] [[government]] (Department for Culture, Media and Sport). It manages many monuments of the historic environment of [[England]]. It was set up under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983. Before the [[Department of the Environment]] had had these functions. English Heritage takes care of many important historical and [[archaeology|archaeologica]]l sites, from [[Stonehenge]] to the world's first [[The Iron Bridge|iron bridge]]. But it has responsibilities in conservation, giving advice, registering and protecting the historic environment as well. It also maintains a public archive, the [[National Monuments Record]] (NMR). ==Equivalent organisations== * [[Wales]] — [[Cadw]] * [[Scotland]] — [[Historic Scotland]] * [[Northern Ireland]] — [[Environment and Heritage Service]] * [[Republic of Ireland]] — [[OPW|Office of Public Works]] ==Other websites== *[http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ English Heritage website] *[http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/ Images of England website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813190017/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/ |date=2009-08-13 }} *[http://www.simonthurley.com Chief Executive website] {{UK-stub}} [[Category:History of England]] [[Category:Conservation organisations of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1983 establishments in England]]