United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is home to 32 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Of those, there are 27 cultural sites, 4 natural sites and 1 mixed sites. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shares 1 of those sites with other countries.
The World Heritage Sites in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are:
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Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
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Durham Castle and Cathedral
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Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast
Giants Causeway is made of unique geological hexagonal formations of volcanic basalt rocks and cliffs on Atlantic coast in County Antrim Northern Ireland. It is also a UNESCO World heritage site. Photo credit: nahlik/Bigstock -
Ironbridge Gorge
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St Kilda
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Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
One of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe is Stonehenge. Photo credit: Sally Wilson/ Pixabay -
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
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Blenheim Palace
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City of Bath
Scene of the Avon River and the historic Pulteney Bridge in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Photo credit: RnDmS/Bigstock -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire*31
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Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
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Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church
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Henderson Island
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Tower of London
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Gough and Inaccessible Islands32
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Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
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Maritime Greenwich
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Heart of Neolithic Orkney
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
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Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
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Derwent Valley Mills
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Dorset and East Devon Coast
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New Lanark
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Saltaire
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Palm House, an iconic Victorian glasshouse that recreates a rainforest climate for the exhibition of living unique collection of tropical plants from the tropical regions of the world, located at Kew Gardens, England. Photo credit: jiggotravel/Bigstock -
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City – delisted
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Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
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The Forth Bridge
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Gorham’s Cave Complex
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The English Lake District
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Jodrell Bank Observatory
Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world’s leading radio astronomy observatories. Photo credit: petergaunt2/Pixabay -
The Great Spa Towns of Europe
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The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
