14 October 2026
Those long parallel ridges in old pasture are medieval ploughing, built up over centuries by ox teams. Here is how to recognise them, why they curve, and what it means when a field still has them.
10 October 2026
LiDAR does not see underground. It measures the shape of the ground, which is why it can strip a forest off a hillfort and still miss the most famous chalk figure in England.
5 October 2026
Members can now publish a visit as a public page on visithistory.online: the site, the date, your comment and the photographs you chose. Here is what goes on the page, what never does, and how to do it.
30 September 2026
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
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 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.
16 September 2026
There are more than 4,000 hillforts in Britain and Ireland, and most of them are rings of bank and ditch on a hilltop. Here is what the rings are, why some have one and some have four, and how to read them from the LiDAR map.
25 July 2026
We've added 52 hand-picked historic gems to the Featured layer: from a car-free cliff village and Brunel's iron steamship to the caves, mines, follies and secret bunkers that make Britain's history so wonderfully strange.
21 April 2026
Visit History now lets you tag places with descriptive labels — find castles, dog-friendly sites, wheelchair-accessible ruins, and more.
4 April 2026
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 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
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
A look at the organisations behind the data in Visit History - Historic England, English Heritage, National Trust, and Historic Houses.
19 February 2026
Visit History is now available on Android. Here's what we've built and what's coming next.