Every historic site in the UK. On your phone, and now in your browser.
Discover history everywhere. Remember every visit. One account keeps your visits, wishlist and photos in step between the app and the web.
7-day free trial · no payment details needed
One account, everywhere
Log a visit at the castle gate on your phone. It is already on the big map when you get home. Same sign-in, same subscription, nothing to set up twice.
What you’ll find
One map of the UK’s heritage, built from the official registers and the organisations that manage the sites.
435,000+
NHLE & Cadw listed sites
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, battlefields, wrecks and more, from the official registers.
1,200+
Managed properties
English Heritage, National Trust, Historic Houses, Historic Royal Palaces, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland and National Trust for Scotland, curated in one place.
4 nations
England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
Canmore for Scotland, Cofnod Cymru for Wales and coverage across Northern Ireland join the English register.
Your data
Visits, wishlist & photos
Your visits and wishlist on the same map, with dates, notes, ratings and photographs stored in the cloud.
WHY IT’S DIFFERENT
One map, not one app per organisation
Each organisation’s app shows only its own sites. Visit History puts the official registers and every organisation’s properties on the same map, with your visits and wishlist on top.
English Heritage
National Trust
Historic HousesAn app each
All of them in Visit History, plus your own visits
Maps that show more
Switch the basemap to see what the standard map cannot show.
OLD SARUM · LiDAR DTMLiDAR maps
Two Environment Agency laser scans of England, surface and terrain, strip away the trees and show the shape of the ground. Ramparts, ditches and earthworks are clearly visible where the standard map shows nothing.
OS SIX-INCH · 1888Historic maps
Six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 to 1955, including the detailed six-inch sheets. See a site as its surveyors recorded it, and use the split view to compare then with now.
THE APP · iOS & ANDROID
Made for the day out
See what is around you wherever you are stood. Been there? Mark it. Want to go? Wishlist it. Record the date, jot down your thoughts, rate the visit and 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.
- Discover sites near you, filtered by the organisations you care about
- Visits with dates, notes, star ratings and photographs
- Share comments and photos with the community, or keep them private
NEW · THE WEB APP
Made for the planning
The same map on a bigger screen, built for planning your next trip. Sixteen layers, satellite and LiDAR basemaps, and a split view to compare any two.
- Search any place, then see every site around it
- LiDAR overlays and side-by-side compare
- Your visited and wishlist pins, straight from the app
One subscription, everywhere
Start with a 7-day free trial. No payment details required. Subscribe on the web, the App Store or Google Play, and it covers the app and the website.
Monthly
£1/month
No payment needed to start the trial. Cancel anytime.
Yearly
£10/year
Save £2 compared to monthly.
New in Visit History
30 September 2026
Scheduled Monument or Listed Building? What the Difference Actually Means
They are two different registers under two different acts of parliament, and confusing them matters. One protects buildings people still use. The other protects archaeology, and carries criminal offences that catch people out.
26 September 2026
How to Spot a Deserted Medieval Village From the Car
Around 3,000 deserted medieval villages are known in England, and most are a few bumps in a field. Here is what the bumps are, what gives one away at thirty miles an hour, and why the Black Death usually is not the answer.
26 September 2026
Scotland's 75,966 Protected Places, and What the Categories Mean
Scotland lists buildings as A, B and C rather than I, II* and II, and that is only the first difference. Here is what is on the Scottish registers, what the categories actually mean, and why a scheduled monument's category is not a grade at all.
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Discover history everywhere. Remember every visit.