World Heritage in United Kingdom

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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	185	2.66
Blenheim Palace	1987	Cultural	12	390	3.17
Canterbury	1988	Cultural	12	558	3.43
City of Bath	1987	Cultural	13	765	3.61
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape	2006	Cultural	11	276	3.19
Derwent Valley Mills	2001	Cultural	12	187	2.46
Dorset and East Devon Coast	2001	Natural	13	345	3.46
Durham Castle and Cathedral	1986	Cultural	18	337	3.21
Edinburgh	1995	Cultural	17	911	4.08
Forth Bridge	2015	Cultural	11	445	2.95
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	1987	Cultural	19	546	2.87
Giant's Causeway	1986	Natural	11	400	3.78
Gorham's Cave Complex	2016	Cultural	9	110	2.27
Gough and Inaccessible Islands	1995	Natural	3	11	2.9
Great Spa Towns of Europe	2021	Cultural	14	575	3.32
Gwynedd Castles	1986	Cultural	10	293	3.54
Henderson Island	1988	Natural	0	5	2.84
Ironbridge Gorge	1986	Cultural	12	264	3.08
Jodrell Bank Observatory	2019	Cultural	8	117	2.82
Kew Gardens	2003	Cultural	17	547	3.31
Lake District	2017	Cultural	7	426	3.66
Maritime Greenwich	1997	Cultural	7	683	3.19
Moravian Church Settlements	2015	Cultural	15	233	1.95
Neolithic Orkney	1999	Cultural	11	169	3.95
New Lanark	2001	Cultural	11	207	2.78
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal	2009	Cultural	13	214	3.07
Saltaire	2001	Cultural	13	204	2.34
St. George, Bermuda	2000	Cultural	4	80	2.84
St. Kilda	1986	Mixed	4	35	3.84
Stonehenge	1986	Cultural	18	786	3.8
Studley Royal Park	1986	Cultural	8	211	3.19
The Flow Country	2024	Natural	3	41	2.24
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales	2021	Cultural	6	137	2.89
Tower of London	1988	Cultural	19	1296	3.45
Westminster	1987	Cultural	14	1296	3.67

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	3	10	17%
City of York: historic urban core	2023	2029	Cultural	4	84	96%
East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands	2023		Natural	1	14	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	12	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

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United Kingdom

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