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UK nominates 11 sites for Unesco world heritage status


Britain is nominating a judicious mixture of natural, built and industrial sites, including the slate industry of north Wales with its spectacular shale heaps still bearing witness to the days when Welsh slate roofed half the world, the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire, Scotland's beautiful Flow Country, the endlessly repainted Forth railway bridge which had the longest single cantilever span in the world when built in 1890, Gorham's cave complex in Gibraltar, and Cresswell Crags, the limestone gorge honeycombed with caves which has some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in Britain and the country's only known Ice Age rock art.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/22/uk-nominations-world-heritage-status
goffik Posted by goffik
22nd March 2011ce

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David Mitchell's take on the subject.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/27/unesco-world-heritage-status-david-mitchell
tjj Posted by tjj
27th March 2011ce
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