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UNESCO World Heritage for United Kingdom |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 26 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for United Kingdom to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available).
![]() | 1986 - St Kilda | Mixed site | |
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![]() | 1986 - Ironbridge Gorge | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1986 - Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd | Cultural site | |
![]() | 1986 - Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast | Natural site |
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![]() | 1986 - Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey | Cultural site | |
![]() | 1986 - Durham Castle and Cathedral | Cultural site | |
![]() | 1986 - Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1987 - Frontiers of the Roman Empire | Cultural site | |
![]() | 1987 - City of Bath | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1987 - Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1987 - Blenheim Palace | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1988 - Tower of London | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1988 - Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church | Cultural site | |
![]() | 1995 - Old and New Towns of Edinburgh | Cultural site |
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![]() Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church | ![]() Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church | ![]() Tower of London | ![]() Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City |
![]() | 1997 - Maritime Greenwich | Cultural site |
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![]() | 1999 - Heart of Neolithic Orkney | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2000 - Blaenavon Industrial Landscape | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2001 - Derwent Valley Mills | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2001 - Saltaire | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2001 - New Lanark | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2001 - Dorset and East Devon Coast | Natural site |
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![]() | 2003 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Cultural site |
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![]() | 2004 - Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City | Cultural site |
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![]() | 2006 - Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape | Cultural site |
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![]() | 2009 - Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal | Cultural site | |
![]() | 2015 - The Forth Bridge | Cultural site |










