List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom Totally Explained

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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 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 (External Link

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Antonine Wall (External Link

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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (External Link

) Down House had also been nominated and, though it was removed from the 2006 list on internal advice from ICOMOS(External Link

), it has been confirmed that it would be resubmitted in 2009.(External Link

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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

Antonine Wall

The Cairngorm Mountains

The Flow Country

The Forth Bridge

Pont-Cysyllte Aqueduct

Mount Stewart Gardens

Fountains Cavern, Anguilla

The Fortress of GibraltarFurther Information

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