From The London Evening Standard:
Details of England‘s national heritage from protected shipwrecks to listed lamp-posts are being made easily available to the public for the first time with a new online database.
English Heritage today [Monday] launched the National Heritage List for England which it claimed was “a significant milestone towards achieving better understanding and protection for heritage in this country”.
It lists all 400,000 listed buildings, parks, gardens, battlefields, shipwrecks and scheduled monuments. And for the first time, the public will be able to search by postcode, by age or by categories from coal-mines to castles.
The database launch came as English Heritage came as it announced priorities from now until 2015 in the light of a 32 per cent cut in its Government grant.
The Database is Named Portico but IT HAS NOTHING to Do With the Digital Preservation and Electronic Preservation Service From ITHAKA.
More Info in this Announcement From National Heritage
Via INFOdocket
Actually the database is not named Portico, it is named the National Heritage List for England. Portico is a different English Heritage database which is still being developed and has very different content.
http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/