UNESCO World Heritage for United Kingdom

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
1986 - Ironbridge Gorge
1986 - Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
1986 - Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
1986 - Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
1986 - Durham Castle and Cathedral
1986 - Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
1987 - Frontiers of the Roman Empire
1987 - City of Bath
1987 - Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
1987 - Blenheim Palace
1988 - Tower of London
1988 - Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
1995 - Old and New Towns of Edinburgh


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
1999 - Heart of Neolithic Orkney
2000 - Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
2001 - Derwent Valley Mills
2001 - Saltaire
2001 - New Lanark
2001 - Dorset and East Devon Coast
2003 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2004 - Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
2006 - Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
2009 - Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
2015 - The Forth Bridge