Key Facts

• Designated heritage assets in England include: 372,038 listed building entries; 19,717 scheduled monuments; 9,374 conservation areas; and 1,587 registered parks and gardens.
  
  
• There are 1,302 Grade I and II* listed building entries and structural scheduled monuments on English Heritage’s national register of buildings at risk – 126 fewer than in 1999.
  
  
• In the East Midlands , 35 per cent of scheduled monuments are at risk, while a quarter of Gloucestershire’s monuments are at high risk.
  
  
• The Heritage Lottery Fund has given £3.3 billion to heritage projects since 1994 in 27,000 awards. £1.3 billion has gone to areas which contain high levels of deprivation.
  
  
• In 2004, 58 million tourist visits and 2.4 million school visits to heritage sites were recorded.