Scotland’s Architecture

Each Place marker is an approximate centre calculated from its published mapped records. Showing your location is optional: the site uses it only in this page and does not save it. Published Place names are matched in this page. Other submitted place names are sent through a throttled, temporarily cached search to the OpenStreetMap Nominatim gazetteer and limited to Scottish results; do not enter personal or confidential information. Gazetteer points and boundaries are approximate and do not create a Scotland’s Architecture record. A submitted postcode is sent to Postcodes.io to obtain an approximate postcode centroid; Scotland’s Architecture does not save the postcode query. Postcode centroids are not address locations. Modern map tiles are supplied by OpenStreetMap. The optional historical overlay is the Ordnance Survey six-inch first edition for Scotland, principally surveyed in the 1840s–1880s, supplied by the National Library of Scotland. Sheet dates and coverage vary, and the historical map must not be read as current geography.

1 published Place without a reliable mapped record is listed below but omitted from the map.

The optional listed-buildings layer appears from city and large-town scale (zoom 12), clusters nearby designations, and links to official HES records. Lettered markers show the authoritative HES listing categories A, B and C. The separate scheduled-monuments layer appears from regional scale (zoom 10), uses purple SM markers at approximate designation centres, and links to the official HES record for the statutory boundary. It is independent of the listed-building category filter. Purple SM markers already attached to Scotland’s Architecture records remain curated catalogue markers. The opt-in Wikipedia layer shows geotagged English Wikipedia articles in the current close map view. W markers are supplied independently by Wikipedia, may cover subjects beyond architecture, and are not affected by HES filters. Turning it on sends the visible map centre and approximate radius to Wikimedia; Scotland’s Architecture does not save that request. Plan a heritage walk loads a Place-wide HES inventory, suggests a Category A-led order of principal stops, and divides longer itineraries into cross-device Google Maps legs without a paid integration. The site map displays numbered stops but deliberately draws no connecting line: Google chooses the actual pedestrian streets and paths, distance and time. Optional Category B and C candidates are shown only by proximity to a selected landmark marker and are not assumed to lie on Google’s route. Printable notes retain complete source and Google route URLs. This is a discovery aid rather than a statutory property-boundary search. For additional historic-map comparison and wider archaeological layers, visit PastMap; check current designation status and the full legal extent in the linked official HES record.

Historical map: Ordnance Survey six-inch first edition, Scotland, 1843–1882, National Library of Scotland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Listed-building and scheduled-monument data contains Historic Environment Scotland and OS data © Historic Environment Scotland and Crown Copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Wikipedia article titles, coordinates and links are supplied by Wikipedia contributors. Place-name search results are © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the ODbL. Postcode data includes Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail, National Statistics and NRS data under the licences described by Postcodes.io.