Talks and Tours at the Historic England Archive

We are the Archive of England's historic environment. We are located in The Engine House, which was built from the 1840s and was formerly the Great Western Railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office and Drawing Office. We are a public archive of architectural and archaeological records and hold over 15 million historic photographs, plans, drawings, reports, records and publications, covering England's archaeology, architecture, social and local history.

We would love to welcome you at our upcoming events:

Parking and accessibility

Tours will involve some walking, including up and down some staircases, so please take that into consideration when booking. The Archive is also quite cold, so you will need to bring warm clothing with you.

Unfortunately we do not have parking facilities for the general public, so we would encourage you to get to the site via other means or use the Designer Outlet Swindon car park (however there is a charge for this).

We do have limited access to blue badge parking if needed. If you would like this, please contact Jade-India Balmer (Engagement and Volunteering Officer) at [email protected]

If you have accessibility requirements and would like to participate on the tour please do contact the above email address in advance so that we can put the necessary measures in place.