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.