Useful Corners of the Web

Ancient stones, sacred sites and landscape archaeology in Cornwall.

Detailed walking routes, maps and local landscape information.

Protecting and interpreting important historic sites across Cornwall.

Research, fieldwork, publications and events covering Cornwall and Scilly.

An online English–Cornish and Cornish–English dictionary.

A searchable corpus and reference resource for the Cornish language.

The official register of listed buildings, scheduled monuments and other protected heritage.

Search national and local historic-environment records in one place.

A vast archive of archaeological datasets, reports and publications.

Digitised primary and secondary sources for British and Irish history.

A national record of UK war memorials, including many user-supplied photographs and updates.

Historical maps from collections around the world. A particularly effective way to lose an afternoon.

Millions of georeferenced photographs covering Britain and Ireland.

A database and community site devoted to UK trig pillars and survey points.

Records and photographs of Ordnance Survey bench marks across Britain.

A straightforward converter and locator for UK grid references.

Everything you never realised you needed to know about church bells.

Information and support relating to historic church buildings across the UK.

A searchable photographic record of Romanesque sculpture, with detailed descriptions, church histories and architectural context.

Richly observed guides to churches in Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and the City of London, combining photographs, architecture, local history and the character of each visit.

A crowd-sourced guide to visiting Church of England and Church in Wales churches, with access information, photographs and visitor notes. I contributed extensively during its early years.

Research, archives and publications spanning archaeology, churches and local history.

A detailed reference to the British peerage and associated genealogy.

A substantial illustrated reference to heraldic terms, charges, objects and terminology.

Burke's General Armory — a major reference to British and Irish heraldic families, surnames and coats of arms.

The main geocaching platform and map.

Statistics, challenge checkers, maps and assorted tools for geocachers.

A worldwide catalogue of interesting places, structures, signs and assorted things worth noticing.

A useful little tool for exploring first-order NMR multiplet patterns.

Structural biology data, visualisation and molecular tools.

Citizen science through visual classification of galaxies.

Orbital and observational data for minor planets, comets and other small bodies.

Ephemerides, small-body data and precision Solar System calculations.

Clear public guidance for common emergencies, including CPR, choking, burns, bleeding and stroke.

A quick way to identify and share a precise location, especially where an ordinary street address is unhelpful.

UK pre-hospital clinical guidance and medicines information for ambulance clinicians and other trained users.

A specialist clinical app for burn assessment and fluid-resuscitation calculations.

The UK clinical toxicology database. Access is restricted to eligible healthcare and related professional users.

A searchable ADR reference for UN numbers, classifications, labels, tunnel codes and other road-transport information.

Local UK pollen forecasts and alerts. One I use myself when hay-fever season begins plotting against me.

Cryptography learning tools covering classic and modern ciphers.

Whitespace steganography in a browser. Because apparently ordinary text was too obvious.

Books, websites, audio, software and the Wayback Machine.

Clear documentation for installing and setting up Linux Mint.

The venerable distribution underneath a considerable chunk of the Linux world.

Documentation, downloads and support for Ubuntu Linux.

Official Firefox help and troubleshooting documentation.

A quick browser-based editor for testing and tidying small HTML snippets.

A detailed public check of HTTPS and TLS configuration.

Simple browser tools for converting, resizing and editing GIFs and short video.

A lightweight website crawler and technical site-audit tool.