Plaque Schemes Across England
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PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND Plaque schemes are listed below according to region and county, apart from thematic schemes which have a national remit. The list includes: the name of the erecting body (with a hyperlink to a website where possible); a note of whether the scheme is active, dormant, proposed or complete; and a link to an email contact where available. While not all organisations give details of their plaques on their websites, the information included on the register should enable you to contact those responsible for a particular scheme. In a few cases, plaques are described as ‘orphaned’, which indicates that they are no longer actively managed or maintained by the organisation that erected them. English Heritage is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. BEDFORDSHIRE Bedford Borough ACTIVE Council Various historical schemes BEDFORDSHIRE Biggleswade COMPLETED Contact EAST History Society 1997-2004 BEDFORDSHIRE Dunstable COMPLETED Contact Town Council CAMBRIDGESHIRE Cambridge Blue ACTIVE Contact Plaques Scheme since 2001 CAMBRIDGESHIRE Eatons ACTIVE Contact Community Association 1 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND CAMBRIDGESHIRE Great Shelford ACTIVE Contact Oral History Group CAMBRIDGESHIRE Littleport Society AD HOC One-off plaque erected in 2011, more hoped for. CAMBRIDGESHIRE Peterborough ACTIVE Contact Civic Society since the 1960s CAMBRIDGESHIRE St Ives ACTIVE Contact EAST Civic Society since 2008 CAMBRIDGESHIRE St Neots Local ACTIVE Contact History Society ESSEX (Basildon) PROPOSED Contact Foundation for NO IMAGE Essex Arts AVAILABLE ESSEX Braintree and ACTIVE Contact Bocking Civic since 2010 Society 2 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND ESSEX Canvey Island NO SCHEME Contact Town Council but has installed a one-off plaque ESSEX Chelmsford ACTIVE Contact Borough Council since 1987 ESSEX Coggeshall COMPLETED Contact Heritage Society 2004-2005 ESSEX Colchester COMPLETED Contact EAST Borough Council but proposals still considered on a case by case basis ESSEX Colchester DORMANT Civic Society NO IMAGE AVAILABLE ESSEX Essex County COMPLETED Contact Council 1989-2002 ESSEX Harlow ACTIVE Contact Civic Society since 2008 3 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND ESSEX Loughton ACTIVE Contact Town Council since 1997 ESSEX Maldon Society COMPLETED Contact 2002-2005 ESSEX Rayleigh ACTIVE Contact Town Council since the 1990s. Also plaques erected by the Historical Society in the 1970s. ESSEX Rochford ACTIVE Contact EAST Hundred NO IMAGE Historical Society AVAILABLE ESSEX Southend on Sea COMPLETED Borough Council Council scheme now orphaned ESSEX Thurrock Local ACTIVE Contact History Society, since 2002 in parternship with Thurrock Council & the Thurrock Heritage Forum HERTFORDSHIRE Berkhamsted COMPLETED Contact Town Council Heritage Walk 4 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND HERTFORDSHIRE Hertfordshire COMPLETED County Council in 1989 by the County Council but now orphaned HERTFORDSHIRE Hitchin Historical ACTIVE Contact Society since 2000 HERTFORDSHIRE Hitchin Historical ACTIVE Contact Society since 2000 HERTFORDSHIRE Hitchin Historical ACTIVE Contact EAST Society since 2000 HERTFORDSHIRE Welwyn Hatfield ACTIVE Contact Borough Council First scheme in 1999, new scheme started in 2009 HERTFORDSHIRE Welwyn Hatfield ACTIVE Contact Borough Council First scheme in 1999, new scheme started in 2009 NORFOLK Fakenham Local COMPLETED Contact History Society 2000 Millennium Scheme 5 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND NORFOLK Great Yarmouth ACTIVE Contact and District since 1981 Archaeological Society NORFOLK Hunstanton Civic ACTIVE Contact Society since 2004 NO IMAGE AVAILABLE NORFOLK King’s Lynn ACTIVE Contact (Borough Council Various historic plaques 1910-1982. and Rotary Club) Since 1992 scheme run by Rotary Club. NORFOLK North Walsham COMPLETED EAST Rotary Club in 2005 NORFOLK Norwich HEART ACTIVE Contact since 2006. Replaces Norwich City Council scheme which finished in 2005. NORFOLK Wells-next-the- COMPLETED Contact Sea Local History 2000 Millennium Scheme Group SUFFOLK Bury Society COMPLETE Contact (Bury St Historic plaques from 1906/7. Edmunds) Heritage Trail completed in 2012. 6 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND SUFFOLK Felixstowe Society ACTIVE Contact since 2010 NO IMAGE AVAILABLE SUFFOLK Ipswich Society ACTIVE Contact Ad hoc scheme in the 1970s; the Society started the current scheme in 1999. EAST SUFFOLK Waveney District COMPLETED Contact Council in the 1990s covering Lowestoft, Bungay and Beccles. Considering a new scheme. SUFFOLK The Woodbridge ACTIVE Contact Society since 2008 DERBYSHIRE Bolsover ACTIVE Contact Civic Society since 2011 DERBYSHIRE Chesterfield & ACTIVE Contact District Civic since the late 1980s Society EAST MIDLANDS DERBYSHIRE Derby NO SCHEME Contact Civic Society but has information on historic NO IMAGE plaques in the city AVAILABLE 7 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND DERBYSHIRE Derbyshire ACTIVE Contact County Council since 2010 DERBYSHIRE Matlock Civic ACTIVE Contact Association LEICESTERSHIRE Ashby-de-la- DORMANT Contact Zouch Museum Started in the 1980s LEICESTERSHIRE DLANDS Burbage Heritage ACTIVE Contact MI Group AST E LEICESTERSHIRE Charnwood COMPLETED Contact Borough Council 2006-2008 LEICESTERSHIRE Hinckley and ACTIVE Contact Bosworth since the mid 1990s. Hinckley Civic Borough Council Society (now defunct) also erected 3 plaques. LEICESTERSHIRE Leicester COMPLETED Contact City Council 8 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LEICESTERSHIRE Melton Mowbray ACTIVE Contact Civic Society LEICESTERSHIRE Mountsorrel NO SCHEME Contact Parish Council but there are some old private NO IMAGE plaques in the parish AVAILABLE LEICESTERSHIRE Stoke Golding COMPLETED LEICESTERSHIRE DLANDS Thringstone ACTIVE Contact MI Village, The since 2005 Friends of AST E LEICESTERSHIRE Wigston Civic COMPLETED Contact Society & The in 2007 NO IMAGE Greater Wigston AVAILABLE Historical Society LINCOLNSHIRE Barton-upon- ACTIVE Contact Humber since 1986 Civic Society LINCOLNSHIRE Grantham ACTIVE Contact Civic Society since 2011 9 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LINCOLNSHIRE Grimsby, COMPLETED Contact Cleethorpes & Cleethorpes Heritage Trail was District Civic finished in 2008; Grimsby Heritage Society Trail was completed in 2010. LINCOLNSHIRE Grimsby, COMPLETED Contact Cleethorpes & Cleethorpes Heritage Trail was District Civic finished in 2008; Grimsby Heritage Society Trail was completed in 2010. LINCOLNSHIRE Lincoln ACTIVE Contact Civic Trust LINCOLNSHIRE DLANDS Lincoln ACTIVE Contact MI City Council since 1974 AST E LINCOLNSHIRE Stamford AD HOC Contact Civic Society Town also has historic plaques LINCOLNSHIRE Winteringham VIRTUAL PLAQUES SCHEME Contact Local History VIRTUAL PLAQUES NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Northampton COMPLETED Borough Council in 1988 10 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Rushden and ACTIVE Contact District Civic since 1991 Society NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Towcester & COMPLETED Contact District Local in 2002 - Millennium Project History Society NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Ashfield District NO SCHEME Contact Council but the Council is happy to support community groups in their efforts to preserve and DLANDS interpret local heritage. MI NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Newark ACTIVE Contact Archaeological since 1973. Also some historic EAST & Local History plaques from 1910. Society NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Nottingham Civic COMPLETED Society Several historic schemes NOTTINGHAMSHIRE South Broxtowe ACTIVE since 2009. Contact Joint Working Comprised of Beeston & District Civic Party on Plaques Society and Local History Society, Sta- pleford & District Local History Society, Bramcote Conservation Society and History Group. LONDON Barking and COMPLETED Dagenham NO IMAGE Council LONDON AVAILABLE 11 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LONDON Bow Heritage Trail COMPLETED Contact (Tower Hamlets) in 1990 by Bow Neighbourhood LONDON The Brixton NO SCHEME Contact Society (Lambeth) currently NO IMAGE AVAILABLE LONDON Bromley Council ACTIVE Contact NO IMAGE AVAILABLE LONDON Cecil Court AD HOC Contact Traders’ since 2011 LONDON Association LONDON City of London ACTIVE Contact Corporation LONDON The Clapham ACTIVE Contact Society since 2010 LONDON Croydon Heritage COMPLETED Service in 2000 NO IMAGE AVAILABLE 12 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LONDON Ealing Civic ACTIVE Contact Society since 2004 LONDON Enfield Council COMPLETED but still assists groups such as NO IMAGE the Southgate District Civic Trust AVAILABLE erect plaques LONDON English Heritage ACTIVE Contact since 1866. Scheme previously administered by the Royal Society of Arts, London County Council and the Greater London Council. LONDON Greenwich AD HOC Contact Society LONDON LONDON Hackney Council COMPLETED LONDON Hammersmith & ACTIVE Contact Fulham Historic since 2004 Buidlings Group LONDON The Hampstead PROPOSED Contact Garden Suburb Two plaques erected in their Trust & residents’ centenary year, 2007 Association 13 (Barnet) PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LONDON Haringey Council COMPLETED 2007-2011 LONDON Harrow Heritage ACTIVE Contact Trust since 1988 LONDON Heath & ACTIVE Contact Hampstead Society (formally known as the Hampstead Plaque Fund) LONDON Hillingdon Council ACTIVE Contact since 2008 LONDON LONDON Islington Council ACTIVE Contact since 2010. Previous scheme in the 1970s. LONDON Jewish East End AD HOC Contact Celebration since 2003 Society (Tower Hamlets) LONDON Lewisham Council ACTIVE Contact 14 PLAQUE SCHEMES ACROSS ENGLAND LONDON Lissenden COMPLETED Gardens in 2007 Residents & Tenants Assn. (Camden) LONDON Marchmont ACTIVE Contact Association since 2009 (Camden) LONDON Newham Council COMPLETED Contact NO IMAGE AVAILABLE