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The United Kingdom has 35 World Heritage Sites (29 cultural, 5 natural, 1 mixed), the 8th most in the world. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name; click a name in the list to show it on the map. Listed by year of inscription.

  • Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast natural · 1986
  • Durham Castle and Cathedral cultural · 1986
  • Ironbridge Gorge cultural · 1986
  • Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey cultural · 1986
  • Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites cultural · 1986
  • Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd cultural · 1986
  • St Kilda mixed · 1986
  • Blenheim Palace cultural · 1987
  • Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church cultural · 1987
  • City of Bath cultural · 1987
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire cultural · 1987 (shared with Germany)
  • Henderson Island natural · 1988
  • Tower of London cultural · 1988
  • Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church cultural · 1988
  • Old and New Towns of Edinburgh cultural · 1995
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands natural · 1995
  • Maritime Greenwich cultural · 1997
  • Heart of Neolithic Orkney cultural · 1999
  • Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda cultural · 2000
  • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape cultural · 2000
  • Saltaire cultural · 2001
  • Dorset and East Devon Coast natural · 2001
  • Derwent Valley Mills cultural · 2001
  • New Lanark cultural · 2001
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew cultural · 2003
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape cultural · 2006
  • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal cultural · 2009
  • Moravian Church Settlements cultural · 2015 (shared with Germany, Denmark, United States)
  • The Forth Bridge cultural · 2015
  • Gorham's Cave Complex cultural · 2016
  • The English Lake District cultural · 2017
  • Jodrell Bank Observatory cultural · 2019
  • The Great Spa Towns of Europe cultural · 2021 (shared with Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Germany and others)
  • The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales cultural · 2021
  • The Flow Country natural · 2024

List from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (to 2026). Each dot is the site’s reference point; sites spread over several places or countries get one dot.

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