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	Category	Reviews	Rating
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape	2000	Cultural	10	2.57
Blenheim Palace	1987	Cultural	11	3.1
Canterbury	1988	Cultural	12	3.33
City of Bath	1987	Cultural	12	3.58
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape	2006	Cultural	11	3.12
Derwent Valley Mills	2001	Cultural	12	2.39
Dorset and East Devon Coast	2001	Natural	13	3.33
Durham Castle and Cathedral	1986	Cultural	18	3.17
Edinburgh	1995	Cultural	17	4.03
Forth Bridge	2015	Cultural	10	2.96
Frontiers of the Roman Empire	1987	Cultural	16	2.79
Giant's Causeway	1986	Natural	10	3.78
Gorham's Cave Complex	2016	Cultural	9	2.33
Gough and Inaccessible Islands	1995	Natural	3	2.9
Great Spa Towns of Europe	2021	Cultural	13	3.23
Gwynedd Castles	1986	Cultural	9	3.42
Henderson Island	1988	Natural	0	2.88
Ironbridge Gorge	1986	Cultural	12	3.07
Jodrell Bank Observatory	2019	Cultural	6	2.89
Kew Gardens	2003	Cultural	15	3.3
Lake District	2017	Cultural	7	3.63
Maritime Greenwich	1997	Cultural	7	3.02
Neolithic Orkney	1999	Cultural	11	3.9
New Lanark	2001	Cultural	11	2.65
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal	2009	Cultural	13	2.92
Saltaire	2001	Cultural	13	2.11
St. George, Bermuda	2000	Cultural	4	2.83
St. Kilda	1986	Mixed	4	3.71
Stonehenge	1986	Cultural	18	3.81
Studley Royal Park	1986	Cultural	7	3.19
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales	2021	Cultural	6	2.81
Tower of London	1988	Cultural	18	3.35
Westminster	1987	Cultural	14	3.61

Site	Delisted	Category	Reviews
Liverpool	2021	Cultural	8

Site	Added	Scheduled	Category	Reviews	Rating
Chatham Dockyard and its Defences	2012		Cultural	4	100%
Creswell Crags	2012		Cultural	1	25%
Darwin's Landscape Laboratory	1999		Cultural	3	20%
Flow Country	2012	2024	Natural	3	27%
Island of St Helena	1987		Natural	0	N/A
Moravian Church Settlements (UK)	2022	2024	Cultural	1	N/A
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof	2012		Cultural	2	80%
The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow	2012		Cultural	3	0%
Turks and Caicos Islands	2012		Natural	0	100%

Site	Added	Removed	Reviews
"SS Gt Britain"	1988	1988	1
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	1
Chatsworth	1995	1996	0
Cregneash, Isle of Man	1995	1996	0
Ecclesiatical sites of Loch Erne	1987	1987	0
Fountain Cavern, Anguilla	1999	2012	1
Gibraltar defences	1996	2012	1
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	1
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 Wash and North Norfolk Coast	1999	2012	0

Official Name

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Region

Europe and North America

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