United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (28)

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)
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (2009)
• 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 (13)

• Chatham Dockyard and its Defences (2012)
• Creswell Crags (2012)
• Darwin’s Landscape Laboratory (2012)
• England’s Lake District (2012)
• Gorham’s Cave Complex (2012)
• Island of St Helena (2012)
• Jodrell Bank Observatory (2012)
• Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland (2012)
• Slate Industry of North Wales (2012)
• Flow Country (2012)
• Forth Bridge (2012)
• The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (2012)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (2012)

Activities

• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

News

• First European Marine World Heritage Sites conference commits to strong regional cooperation Friday, April 26, 2013
• The Jurassic Coast celebrates the Earth in 2012 Saturday, September 15, 2012
• World Heritage Committee places Liverpool on List of World Heritage in Danger Tuesday, June 26, 2012
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site receives funding to restore portions of Hadrian’s Wall Friday, April 20, 2012
• City council grants planning permission for development scheme at World Heritage site “Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City” Thursday, March 8, 2012

Events

• Conference "World Heritage for tomorrow” - ICOMOS/UK Dec 1, 2012
• Meeting on the Historic Urban Landscape Action Plan for Durham World Heritage site, UK Oct 26, 2012 - Oct 27, 2012
• Lecture “World Heritage and Economic Development” Apr 17, 2012 - Apr 17, 2012
• International World Heritage Expert Meeting on criterion (vi) Mar 28, 2012 - Mar 30, 2012
• UNESCO UK World Heritage Site Youth Summit 2009 May 22, 2009

Official Relations (UNESCO/ERI) Source: UNESCO/ERI

• H. E. Mr Matthew Sudders
  Ambassador, Permanent Delegate
  Permanent Delegation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to UNESCO
  
• United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO
  Web Site: http://www.unesco.org.uk