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  • Cultural
  • Natural
  • Mixed
  • Tentative

World Heritage Sites

SiteInscribedTypeReviewsVisitorsRating
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2000 Cultural 10 179 2.66
Blenheim Palace 1987 Cultural 11 368 3.18
Canterbury 1988 Cultural 12 531 3.44
City of Bath 1987 Cultural 13 731 3.59
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2006 Cultural 11 264 3.19
Derwent Valley Mills 2001 Cultural 12 178 2.44
Dorset and East Devon Coast 2001 Natural 13 333 3.45
Durham Castle and Cathedral 1986 Cultural 18 321 3.21
Edinburgh 1995 Cultural 17 868 4.06
Forth Bridge 2015 Cultural 11 423 2.97
Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1987 Cultural 18 518 2.85
Giant's Causeway 1986 Natural 11 379 3.8
Gorham's Cave Complex 2016 Cultural 9 106 2.26
Gough and Inaccessible Islands 1995 Natural 3 10 2.9
Great Spa Towns of Europe 2021 Cultural 13 535 3.29
Gwynedd Castles 1986 Cultural 9 281 3.46
Henderson Island 1988 Natural 0 6 2.88
Ironbridge Gorge 1986 Cultural 12 254 3.07
Jodrell Bank Observatory 2019 Cultural 8 111 2.8
Kew Gardens 2003 Cultural 16 517 3.31
Lake District 2017 Cultural 7 408 3.67
Maritime Greenwich 1997 Cultural 7 652 3.18
Moravian Church Settlements 2015 Cultural 15 217 1.98
Neolithic Orkney 1999 Cultural 11 162 4
New Lanark 2001 Cultural 11 197 2.78
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2009 Cultural 13 202 3.05
Saltaire 2001 Cultural 13 195 2.32
St. George, Bermuda 2000 Cultural 4 75 2.78
St. Kilda 1986 Mixed 4 33 3.84
Stonehenge 1986 Cultural 18 748 3.81
Studley Royal Park 1986 Cultural 8 204 3.18
The Flow Country 2024 Natural 3 37 2.26
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2021 Cultural 6 131 2.85
Tower of London 1988 Cultural 19 1245 3.42
Westminster 1987 Cultural 14 1247 3.67

Former World Heritage Sites

SiteDelistedCategoryReviews
Liverpool 2021 Cultural 8

Tentative List

SiteAddedScheduledTypeReviewsVisitorsRating
Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park 2023 2027 Cultural 2 9 20%
City of York: historic urban core 2023 2029 Cultural 2 57 95%
East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands 2023 Natural 1 9 33%
Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas 2023 Natural 1 2 N/A
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland 2023 Cultural 2 9 100%

Country info

Official Name
United Kingdom
Region
Europe and North America
WHC location
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