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List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom
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The List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom is a list of sites designated by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom.
The UNESCO list contains seventeen designated properties in England (one joint with Germany), four in Scotland, two in Wales, one in Northern Ireland and three in British overseas territories. Some designated properties contain multiple sites that share a common geographical location or cultural heritage. Twenty-two properties are designated as cultural, one as mixed and four as natural sites.
The listed properties are designated cultural sites unless noted, and are ordered by date of inscription. All years of first and subsequent designations are given.
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- 1986: Durham Castle and Cathedral
- 1986: Ironbridge Gorge
- 1986: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
- 1986: Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
- 1987: Blenheim Palace
- 1987: City of Bath
- 1987, 2005: Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Hadrian's Wall, joint with Limes Germanicus in Germany
- 1987: Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church
- 1988: Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
- 1988: Tower of London
- 1997: Maritime Greenwich
- 2001: Derwent Valley Mills
- 2001: Dorset and Jurassic Coast in East Devon, natural
- 2001: Saltaire
- 2003: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 2004: Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
- 2006: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- 1986, 2004, 2005: St. Kilda
- Originally designated natural, extended to mixed in 2004
- 1995: Old and New Town of Edinburgh
- 1999: Heart of Neolithic Orkney
- Includes Maeshowe, Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae, Standing Stones of Stenness and other sites
- See also Prehistoric Scotland and History of Orkney
- 2001: New Lanark
See also World Heritage Sites in Scotland.
- 1986: Castles and Town Walls of King Edward I in Gwynedd
- Includes Beaumaris Castle, Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, and Harlech Castle
- 2000: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- 1986: Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, natural
- 1988: Henderson Island, natural
- 1995, 2004: Gough Island and Inaccessible Island, natural
- 2000: Historic town of St. George's, Bermuda and Related Fortifications
In 2006, the following were picked for the UK's 2009 WHS bids:
