UNESCO sites in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom and its overseas territories have 35 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list, according to the UK National Commission for UNESCO: castles and cathedrals, historic cities, industrial landscapes that tell the story of the birth of the modern world and natural wonders, from the Giant's Causeway to the peatlands of Scotland. Here are the main ones, nation by nation.

England

• Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites (1986): the great prehistoric stone circles.
• Durham Castle and Cathedral (1986): the masterpiece of Norman architecture.
• Ironbridge Gorge (1986): the valley of the world's first iron bridge, a symbol of the Industrial Revolution.
• Studley Royal Park and Fountains Abbey (1986): an 18th-century garden around the ruins of a Cistercian abbey in Yorkshire.
• Blenheim Palace (1987): the grand Baroque residence where Winston Churchill was born, near Oxford.
• City of Bath (1987), listed again in 2021 among the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
• Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey (1987) and the Tower of London (1988), in London.
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987, extended in 2008): Hadrian's Wall and, in Scotland, the Antonine Wall.
• Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church (1988).
• Maritime Greenwich (1997) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003), in London.
• Derwent Valley Mills (2001) and the model village of Saltaire (2001).
• Dorset and East Devon Coast, the Jurassic Coast (2001): cliffs that record 185 million years of the Earth's history.
• Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006).
• The English Lake District (2017): lakes and mountains beloved of the Romantic poets.
• Jodrell Bank Observatory (2019), a pioneer of radio astronomy.

Scotland

• St Kilda (1986), a remote, wild archipelago, one of the few mixed natural and cultural sites.
• Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (1995).
• Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999), with the village of Skara Brae.
• New Lanark (2001), a model 19th-century industrial village.
• The Forth Bridge (2015), a masterpiece of Victorian railway engineering.
• The Flow Country (2024), the largest blanket bog in Europe, in the north of Scotland.

Wales

• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (1986): Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech and Beaumaris (see the history of Wales).
• Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000).
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (2009), the work of Thomas Telford.
• The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (2021).

Northern Ireland

• Giant's Causeway (1986): about 40,000 basalt columns formed by ancient volcanic eruptions, north of Belfast.

Overseas territories

Sites outside Great Britain include Henderson Island in the Pacific, Gough and Inaccessible Islands in the South Atlantic, the historic town of St George in Bermuda and the Gorham's Cave complex in Gibraltar.

A site lost: Liverpool

In 2021 UNESCO removed the port of Liverpool, listed in 2004, from the list because of new waterfront developments, including Everton's new stadium: one of very few such cases in the world. Other places are candidates for the future, such as the city of York and Birkenhead Park.