United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List

   Cultural

• Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000)
• Blenheim Palace (1987)
• Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (1988)
• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (1986)
• City of Bath (1987)
• Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006)
• Derwent Valley Mills (2001)
• Durham Castle and Cathedral (1986)
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
• Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999)
• Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda (2000)
• Ironbridge Gorge (1986)
• Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (2004)
• Maritime Greenwich (1997)
• New Lanark (2001)
• Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (1995)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003)
• Saltaire (2001)
• Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (1986)
• Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986)
• Tower of London (1988)
• Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church (1987)

   Natural

• Dorset and East Devon Coast (2001)
• Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (1986)
• Gough and Inaccessible Islands (1995)
• Henderson Island (1988)

   Mixed

• St Kilda (1986)

Properties submitted on the Tentative List

• Gibraltar defences (1996)
• Lake District (1996)
• Chatham Naval Dockyard (1999)
• Darwin's Home and Workplace: Down House and Environs (1999)
• Manchester and Salford (Ancoats, Castlefield and Worsley) (1999)
• Monkwearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites (1999)
• The New Forest (1999)
• The Great Western Railway: Paddington-Bristol (selected parts) (1999)
• Shakespeare's Stratford (1999)
• The Cairngorm Mountains (1999)
• The Flow Country (1999)
• The Forth Rail Bridge (1999)
• Pont-Cysyllte Aqueduct (1999)
• Mount Stewart Gardens (1999)
• Fountain Cavern, Anguilla (1999)
• The Wash and North Norfolk Coast (1999)
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Antonine Wall (2006)

Activities

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

News

• Jul 7, 2008 Canadian fossil park, an Icelandic volcanic island and archipelago in Yemen among sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
• May 15, 2008 Fire damages recently restored Liverpool landmark
• Dec 7, 2007 UNESCO regrets U.K. government's decision to cancel A303 road improvement scheme for Stonehenge World Heritage property
• May 23, 2007 Fire on Cutty Sark, of Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site
• May 15, 2007 Prince of Wales inaugurates World Heritage site of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
• Feb 13, 2007 Huge Settlement Unearthed Near Stonehenge World Heritage Site
• Jan 24, 2007 Concern for World Heritage site after British Coast Cargo Spill

Events

• Jan 21, 2008 - Jan 23, 2008 World Heritage: Science and Technology. An Expert Workshop in the Framework of the Global Strategy for a Balanced and Representative World Heritage List
• Sep 24, 2007 - Jul 26, 2007 3S CONFERENCE - SACRED SPECIES AND SITES
• May 4, 2007 - May 6, 2007 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2007 at Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site
• Mar 6, 2007 SKCC Study Visit at Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site

Mandates to the World Heritage Committee

• 2001 - 2005

Contacts

• H. E. Mr Peter Landymore
  Ambassador, Permanent Delegate
  Permanent Delegation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Maison de l'UNESCO
  Bureau M3.06
  1, rue Miollis
  75732 PARIS Cedex 15
  Tel: 01.45.68.27.84
  Fax: 01.47.83.27.77
  EMail: dl.united-kingdom@unesco.org
  Source: UNESCO/ERC
• United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO
  Chair: Professor Alexander Boksenberg
  Head of Secretariat: Ms Linda Leung
  c/o United Nations Association-UK
  3 Whitehall Court
  LONDON SW1A 2 EL
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Tel: (44) (0) 20 7766 3490
  Fax: (44) (0) 20 79 30 58 93
  EMail: lleung@unesco.org.uk;
  Web Site: http://www.unesco.org.uk
  Source: UNESCO/ERC