Seven websites have obtained authorities backing to win UNESCO World Heritage standing.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes a “tentative list” round each 10 years setting out which websites it feels have one of the best likelihood of being included.
If profitable, the websites will be a part of the 33 different World Heritage websites within the UK or abroad territories, together with Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall.
The seven websites are:
• York metropolis centre, with its Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman historical past, and civic and spiritual buildings together with York Minster
• Birkenhead Park, which opened in 1847 – a pioneering venture to convey greenery to city environments and a blueprint for municipal planning that has influenced well-known websites similar to New York’s Central Park
• The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland – three historical settlements courting again 1000’s of years
• The East Atlantic Flyway – a migratory chicken route over western Europe which incorporates Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent
• The Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas, within the UK abroad territory of the Cayman Islands
• The Flow Country – a big space of peatland throughout Caithness and Sutherland in Scotland’s north
• Gracehill Moravian Church Settlement in Northern Ireland
The final two submitted their full nominations to UNESCO earlier this yr, and stay on the Government’s tentative listing, whereas the opposite 5 are new additions.
Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay stated: “Today we’re confirming our help for among the most enchanting heritage websites and breath-taking landscapes within the UK and its abroad territories as they bid for UNESCO World Heritage Site standing.
“All the locations being put forward would be worthy recipients of this accolade – and we will give them our full backing so they can benefit from the international recognition it can bring.”
UNESCO World Heritage standing is for locations which are of “outstanding universal value to humanity” and ought to be “protected for future generations to appreciate and enjoy”.
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Places already recognised embody the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, the Taj Mahal in India, the Grand Canyon within the USA, and the Acropolis in Greece.
Laura Davies, HM Ambassador to UNESCO, stated: “It is great that the UK is contributing to making World Heritage more representative.
“These 5 websites brilliantly replicate the variety and fantastic thing about the UK and its abroad territories’ pure and cultural heritage, and I sit up for working with them in direction of World Heritage itemizing.”
The DCMS will work with native authorities and devolved administrations to develop their bids.
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