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In Danger
29
Cultural
5
Natural
1
Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1986 Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd GB C EUR 6 374
1986 Durham Castle and Cathedral GB C EUR 9 370
1986 Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast GB N EUR 239 369
1986 Ironbridge Gorge GB C EUR 548 371
1986 St Kilda GB M EUR 24,201 387
1986 Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites GB C EUR 4,985 373
1986 Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey GB C EUR 310 372
1987 Blenheim Palace GB C EUR 0 425
1987 City of Bath GB C EUR 2,900 428
1987 Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 1 GB C EUR 527 430
1987 Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church GB C EUR 10 426
1988 Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church GB C EUR 18 496
1988 Henderson Island GB N EUR 3,700 487
1988 Tower of London GB C EUR 0 488
1995 Gough and Inaccessible Islands 2 GB N EUR 7,900 740
1995 Old and New Towns of Edinburgh GB C EUR 0 728
1997 Maritime Greenwich GB C EUR 110 795
1999 Heart of Neolithic Orkney GB C EUR 15 514
2000 Blaenavon Industrial Landscape GB C EUR 3,290 984
2000 Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda GB C EUR 258 983
2001 Derwent Valley Mills GB C EUR 1,229 1030
2001 Dorset and East Devon Coast GB N EUR 2,550 1029
2001 New Lanark GB C EUR 146 429
2001 Saltaire GB C EUR 20 1028
2003 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew GB C EUR 132 1084
2004 Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City Delisted 2021 GB C EUR 136 1150
2006 Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape GB C EUR 19,719 1215
2009 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal GB C EUR 105 1303
2015 Moravian Church Settlements * GB C EUR 0 1468
2015 The Forth Bridge GB C EUR 8 1485
2016 Gorham's Cave Complex GB C EUR 28 1500
2017 The English Lake District GB C EUR 229,205 422
2019 Jodrell Bank Observatory GB C EUR 17 1594
2021 The Great Spa Towns of Europe * GB C EUR 7,018 1613
2021 The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales GB C EUR 3,259 1633
2024 The Flow Country GB N EUR 187,026 1722
Notes

  1. The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

  2. Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".

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Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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