World Heritage in United Kingdom

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Relevant websites and news articles:

Unesco world heritage status: Seven sites win UK backing (12-04-2023)
Detailed description of the UK Tentative List of 1999 (18-09-2022)
Timeline UK Tentative List Review (25-08-2022)
List of 38 sites vying for a spot on the new UK Tentative List, including Application Forms (13-08-2010)

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Map of World Heritage in United Kingdom

Site	Inscribed	Type	Reviews	Visitors	Rating
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape	2000	Cultural	10	181	2.65
Blenheim Palace	1987	Cultural	11	372	3.15
Canterbury	1988	Cultural	12	536	3.44
City of Bath	1987	Cultural	13	737	3.6
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape	2006	Cultural	11	266	3.18
Derwent Valley Mills	2001	Cultural	12	180	2.46
Dorset and East Devon Coast	2001	Natural	13	335	3.43
Durham Castle and Cathedral	1986	Cultural	18	325	3.22
Edinburgh	1995	Cultural	17	874	4.07
Forth Bridge	2015	Cultural	11	425	2.95
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	1987	Cultural	18	522	2.87
Giant's Causeway	1986	Natural	11	382	3.78
Gorham's Cave Complex	2016	Cultural	9	107	2.27
Gough and Inaccessible Islands	1995	Natural	3	10	2.9
Great Spa Towns of Europe	2021	Cultural	13	542	3.29
Gwynedd Castles	1986	Cultural	9	284	3.47
Henderson Island	1988	Natural	0	6	2.88
Ironbridge Gorge	1986	Cultural	12	258	3.08
Jodrell Bank Observatory	2019	Cultural	8	112	2.82
Kew Gardens	2003	Cultural	16	520	3.31
Lake District	2017	Cultural	7	409	3.68
Maritime Greenwich	1997	Cultural	7	655	3.18
Moravian Church Settlements	2015	Cultural	15	221	1.97
Neolithic Orkney	1999	Cultural	11	164	4
New Lanark	2001	Cultural	11	197	2.78
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal	2009	Cultural	13	204	3.06
Saltaire	2001	Cultural	13	196	2.34
St. George, Bermuda	2000	Cultural	4	75	2.78
St. Kilda	1986	Mixed	4	32	3.84
Stonehenge	1986	Cultural	18	755	3.8
Studley Royal Park	1986	Cultural	8	205	3.19
The Flow Country	2024	Natural	3	37	2.26
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales	2021	Cultural	6	132	2.85
Tower of London	1988	Cultural	19	1253	3.43
Westminster	1987	Cultural	14	1254	3.66

Site	Delisted	Category	Reviews
Liverpool	2021	Cultural	8

Site	Added	Scheduled	Type	Reviews	Visitors	Rating
Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park	2023	2027	Cultural	2	9	20%
City of York: historic urban core	2023	2029	Cultural	3	62	95%
East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands	2023		Natural	1	10	50%
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%

Site	Added	Removed	Reviews
British Virgin Islands: Anegada	1995	1996	0
British Virgin Islands: The Baths Area of Virgin Gorda	1995	1996	0
Caerleon legionary fortress	1995	1996	2
Cambridge Colleges and Backs	1989	1989	2
Chatham Dockyard and its Defences	2012	2023	4
Chatsworth	1995	1996	0
Cregneash, Isle of Man	1995	1996	0
Creswell Crags	2012	2023	1
Darwin's Landscape Laboratory	1999	2023	3
Ecclesiatical sites of Loch Erne	1987	1987	0
Fountain Cavern, Anguilla	1999	2012	1
Gibraltar defences	1996	2012	1
Island of St Helena	1987	2023	0
Lacock	1986	1996	1
Manchester and Salford (Ancoats, Castlefield and Worsley)	1999	2012	0
Menai + Conwy Bridges	1988	1988	1
Mount Stewart Gardens	1999	2012	0
Navan Fort	1988	1989	0
Shakespeare's Stratford	1999	2012	2
SS Great Britain	1988	1988	2
St Davids close + Bishops' palace	1987	1987	0
St. Patrick Isle (Peel Castle), Isle of Man	1995	1996	0
Stourhead	1986	1996	1
The Cairngorm Mountains	1999	2012	0
The Great Western Railway: Paddington- Bristol (selected parts)	1999	2012	1
The New Forest	1999	2012	0
The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow	2012	2023	3
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast	1999	2012	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	2012	2023	0

Official Name

United Kingdom

Region

Europe and North America

WHC location

WHC member

Shakespeare's Stratford (T) Andrew_Kerr UK - 15-Dec-24
SS Great Britain (T) Andrew_Kerr UK - 12-Dec-24 -
Cambridge Colleges and Backs (T) Andrew_Kerr UK - 23-Dec-24 -
Kew Gardens DutchHorn United States - 26-Sep-24 -
Moravian Church Settlements Blake - 15-Sep-24 -
City of Bath Elena Y Ireland - 11-Jul-24 -
Giant's Causeway Solivagant UK - 11-Jul-24 -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire Bernard Joseph Esposo Guerrero The Philippines - 04-May-24 -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire Solivagant UK - 01-Apr-24 -
Forth Bridge Patrik Netherlands - 30-Jan-24

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