List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom

The List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom is a list of sites designated by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom.

The UNESCO list contains seventeen designated properties in England (one joint with Germany), four in Scotland, two in Wales, one in Northern Ireland and three in British overseas territories. Some designated properties contain multiple sites that share a common geographical location or cultural heritage. Twenty-two properties are designated as "cultural", one as "mixed" and four as "natural" sites.

The listed properties are designated "cultural" sites unless noted, and are ordered by date of inscription. All years of first and subsequent designations are given.

England

* 1986: Durham Castle and Cathedral
* 1986: Ironbridge Gorge
* 1986: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
* 1986: Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
* 1987: Blenheim Palace
* 1987: City of Bath
* 1987, 2005: Frontiers of the Roman Empire
** Hadrian's Wall, joint with Limes Germanicus in Germany
* 1987: Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church
* 1988: Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
* 1988: Tower of London
* 1997: Maritime Greenwich
* 2001: Derwent Valley Mills
* 2001: Jurassic Coast in Dorset and East Devon, "natural"
* 2001: Saltaire
* 2003: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
* 2004: Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
* 2006: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Scotland

* 1986, 2004, 2005: St. Kilda
** Originally designated "natural", extended to "mixed" in 2004
* 1995: Old and New Town of Edinburgh
* 1999: Heart of Neolithic Orkney
** Includes Maeshowe, Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae, Standing Stones of Stenness and other sites
**: "See also Prehistoric Scotland and History of Orkney"
* 2001: New Lanark
* 2008: Antonine Wall (Extension to "Frontiers of the Roman Empire")

See also World Heritage Sites in Scotland.

Wales

* 1986: Castles and Town Walls of King Edward I in Gwynedd
** Includes Beaumaris Castle, Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, and Harlech Castle
* 2000: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

Northern Ireland

* 1986: Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, "natural"

British overseas territories

* 1988: Henderson Island, "natural"
* 1995, 2004: Gough Island and Inaccessible Island, "natural"
* 2000: Historic town of St. George's, Bermuda and Related Fortifications

Prospective

In 2006, the following were picked for the UK's 2009 WHS bids:
*Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6036607.stm]
*Pontcysyllte Aqueduct [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/6037203.stm]

Down House had also been nominated and, though it was removed from the 2006 list on internal advice from ICOMOS [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6753043.stm] , it has been confirmed that it would be resubmitted in 2009. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6757083.stm]

Tentative list

The following sites are on the second UK "Tentative list" of sites, produced in 1999; being on this list is a prerequisite for nomination as a World Heritage Site.:
*Chatham Naval Dockyard
*Darwin’s Home and Workplace
*Lake District
*Manchester, Trafford and Salford
*Monkwearmouth/ Jarrow
*The New Forest
*Great Western Railway
*Shakespeare’s Stratford
*The Wash and North Norfolk Coast
*The Cairngorm Mountains
*The Flow Country
*The Forth Bridge
*Pont-Cysyllte Aqueduct
*Mount Stewart Gardens
*Fountains Cavern, Anguilla
*The Fortress of Gibraltar

ee also

*List of World Heritage Sites in Europe

References

* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/gb UNESCO site]

External links

* [http://www.ukworldheritage.org.uk/ UK World Heritage Sites DCMS portal]
* [http://www.ukworldheritage.org.uk/documents/WorldHeritageSites1999.pdf World Heritage Sites The Tentative List of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]