World Heritage Site

A World Heritage Site is a place (such as a building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance.
The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 UNESCO member states which are elected by the General Assembly.
The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.
Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund.
The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
Since then, 191 states parties have ratified the Convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. Only Liechtenstein, Nauru, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu are not Party to the Convention.
As of July 2015, 1083 sites in 163 states parties.
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List of all World Heritage Site of United Kingdom

1 - Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
2 - Durham Castle and Cathedral - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
3 - Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast - Natural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
4 - Ironbridge Gorge - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
5 - St Kilda - Mixed, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
6 - Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
7 - Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1986
8 - Blenheim Palace - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1987
9 - City of Bath - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1987
10 - Frontiers of the Roman Empire 30 - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1987
11 - Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret's Church - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1987
12 - Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1988
13 - Henderson Island - Natural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1988
14 - Tower of London - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1988
15 - Gough and Inaccessible Islands 31 - Natural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1995
16 - Old and New Towns of Edinburgh - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1995
17 - Maritime Greenwich - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1997
18 - Heart of Neolithic Orkney - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 1999
19 - Blaenavon Industrial Landscape - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2000
20 - Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2000
21 - Derwent Valley Mills - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2001
22 - Dorset and East Devon Coast - Natural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2001
23 - New Lanark - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2001
24 - Saltaire - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2001
25 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2003
26 - Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2004
27 - Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2006
28 - Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2009
29 - The Forth Bridge - Cultural, United Kingdom-Europe and North America - 2015

Total sites found: 29