United Kingdom
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Country Quickfacts
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- ISO 2-Letter code:
- GB
- Internet top level domain:
- .uk
- Country phone prefix:
- +44
- Local Time (capital):
- Timezone:
- UTC/GMT offset: hours
Map of British Unesco Heritage Sites
Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about United Kingdom in Europe. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd. On the list since 1986. The youngest site is Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal. On the list since 2009.
| Name | Since |
|---|---|
| Blaenavon Industrial Landscape The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore... |
2000 |
| Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, stands in a romantic park created by the famous landscape gardener 'Capability' Brown. It was presented by the English nation to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough... |
1987 |
| Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries. Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest c... |
1988 |
| Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd The castles of Beaumaris and Harlech (largely the work of the greatest military engineer of the time, James of St George) and the fortified complexes of Caernarfon and Conwy are located in the former ... |
1986 |
| City of Bath Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under George III, it developed into an elegant town with neoclassi... |
1987 |
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, e... |
2006 |
| Derwent Valley Mills The Derwent Valley in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th- century cotton mills and an industrial landscape of high historical and technological interest. The modern factory owes its o... |
2001 |
| Dorset and East Devon Coast The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning the Mesozoic Era, or some 185 million years of the earth's history. The area... |
2001 |
| Durham Castle and Cathedral Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of St Cuthbert (evangelizer of Northumbria) and the Venerable Bede. It attests to the importance of the early B... |
1986 |
| Gough and Inaccessible Islands The site, located in the south Atlantic, is one of the least-disrupted island and marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone. The spectacular cliffs of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, towering above... |
1995 |
| Heart of Neolithic Orkney The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), ... |
1999 |
| Henderson Island Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the world whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence. Its isolated location provides the id... |
1988 |
| Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda The Town of St George, founded in 1612, is an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World. Its associated fortifications graphically illustrate the development of Eng... |
2000 |
| Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City Six areas in the historic centre and docklands of the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool bear witness to the development of one of the world’s major trading centres in the 18th and 19th centuries... |
2004 |
| Maritime Greenwich The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Quee... |
1997 |
| New Lanark New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century... |
2001 |
| Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18t... |
1995 |
| Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains, is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. The site – which also comprises the small medieval Church of S... |
1987 |
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Co... |
2009 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The gardens house botanic collections (conserved plants,... |
2003 |
| Saltaire Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century. Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious... |
2001 |
| St Kilda This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides and comprises the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray. It has some of the highest cliffs in Eu... |
1986 |
| Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significanc... |
1986 |
| Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey A striking landscape was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey and Fountains Hall Castle, in Yorkshire. The 18th-century landscaping, gardens and canal, the 19th-century plantatio... |
1986 |
| Tower of London The massive White Tower is a typical example of Norman military architecture, whose influence was felt throughout the kingdom. It was built on the Thames by William the Conqueror to protect London and... |
1988 |