World Heritage Sites GIS Data

Published by:
Historic England
Last updated:
21 December 2017
Topic:
Towns and cities
Licence:
Open Government Licence

Summary

GIS spatial data for World Heritage Sites and their Buffer Zones, where existing, as inscribed by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO. World Heritage Sites and their Buffer Zones are defined by a polygon defining the extent of the protected area.

A World Heritage Site is a site on a list of properties maintained by the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO and called the World Heritage List "forming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage...which it considers as having outstanding universal value in terms of such criteria as it shall have established".

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World Heritage Sites SHP 21 December 2017 Not available

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Historic England website entry HTML 21 December 2017
The National Heritage List for England HTML 06 March 2018

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