Previous work has indicated that a large amount of information exists but is often unpublished or not easily accessible. This type of information is needed to ensure suitable stone is used for building repair and conservation and the need is particularly acute for vernacular buildings. The intention is to make results available in two forms. Through a free access website based on the British Geological Survey's (BGS) Britpits database and as a series of Atlases of English Building Stones. If the outcome of the meetings is positive the work will be commissioned on a county basis starting in 2007 and will be completed by by 2010. If you would like to be involved in the study or if you have unpublished information you would like to contribute please contact Terry Hughes.

To support this study BGS has been commissioned to integrate into the Britpits database all the quarry locations shown on Ordnance Survey maps since the first edition and the quarry data in the series Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1853 onwards.