There are 26 World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom:
1986
Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast
1986
Durham Castle and Cathedral
1986
Ironbridge Gorge
1986
Studley Royal Park and the ruins of Fountains Abbey
1986
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
1986
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
1986
St Kilda
1987
City of Bath
1987
Blenheim Palace
1987
Hadrian’s Wall
1987
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church
1988 Henderson Island
1988
Tower of London
1988
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church
1995
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
1995 Gough Island and Wildlife Reserve
1997
Maritime Greenwich
1999
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
2000 Historic Town of St George and related Fortifications, Bermuda
2000
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
2001
Dorset and East Devon Coast
2001
New Lanark
2001
Saltaire
2003
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
2004
Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City
2006
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Only five of these monuments represent a period in which Britain held centre-stage
as the world’s first industrial nation. The Derwent Valley Mills is
part of this sub group of industrial sites as are Ironbridge Gorge, Blaenavon
Industrial Landscape, New Lanark and Saltaire.
The Derwent Valley Mills is the only site to be located within the East Midlands
Region.