Google Map World Heritage sites for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Main link goes to Google satellite image of area. In most places you can zoom in once, in some places all the way. Use "VR" link for virtual reality tours, "Img" for Google images. Please note, some coordinates have errors. If you find the true coordinates, comment on my blog.

Tower of London: [Img] "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..." [More]
Henderson Island: [Img] "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..." [More]
City of Bath: [Img] "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..." [More]
St. Kilda: [Img] "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..." [More]
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites: [Img] "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..." [More]
Saltaire: [Img] "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'..." [More]
Blenheim Palace: [Img] "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..." [More]
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape: [Img] "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..." [More]
Maritime Greenwich: [Img] "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..." [More]
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh: [Img] "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,..." [More]
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd: [Img] "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..." [More]
Ironbridge Gorge: [Img] "Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It contains all the elements of progress that contributed to the rapid development of..." [More]
New Lanark: [Img] "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..." [More]
Derwent Valley Mills: [Img] "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..." [More]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: [Img] "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..." [More]
Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City: [Img] "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..." [More]
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church: [Img] "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..." [More]
Heart of Neolithic Orkney: [Img] "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..." [More]
Hadrian's Wall: [Img] "Built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian c. A.D. 122 at the northernmost limits of the Roman province of Britannia, the 118-km-long wall is a striking example of the..." [More]
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda: [Img] "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..." [More]
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast: [Img] "The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000..." [More]
Dorset and East Devon Coast: [Img] "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..." [More]
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church: [Img] "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..." [More]
Durham Castle and Cathedral: [Img] "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..." [More]
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey: [Img] "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,..." [More]
Gough and Inaccessible Islands: [Img] "Gough Island, in the South Atlantic, is one of the least-disrupted island and marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone. The spectacular cliffs, towering above the ocean,..." [More]

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