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York harbours a affluent past near down by its Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman inhabitants
Seven sites successful the UK and its overseas territories are successful the moving to triumph Unesco World Heritage status.
York metropolis centre, Birkenhead Park and an robust property colony successful Shetland are among the locations being enactment guardant by the authorities to articulation the prestigious list.
The globally-recognised designation is fixed to places of cultural, humanities oregon technological significance.
There are already 33 World Heritage sites successful the UK, including Stonehenge.
Globally, the sites connected the database overseen by the bureau of the United Nations, see Australia's Great Barrier Reef and historical areas of Cairo.
Five caller sites from crossed the UK and overseas territories person been added to the government's "Tentative List", which is published astir each 10 years and sets retired the locations it is felt person the champion accidental of succeeding successful being included.
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Image caption,Birkenhead Park inspired the improvement and instauration of parks crossed the satellite including New York's Central Park
The Department for Media, Culture and Sport confirmed the caller sites are:
- York, which harbours a affluent past near down by its Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman inhabitants, with civic and spiritual buildings including its Minster
- Birkenhead Park successful Merseyside, which opened successful 1847 and was a pioneering task to bring greenery to municipality environments - it inspired the improvement and instauration of parks crossed the satellite including New York's Central Park
- The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, a postulation of 3 past settlements dating backmost thousands of years
- The East Atlantic Flyway, a migratory vertebrate way implicit occidental parts of Europe including Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. It joins the database successful designation of its captious value to vertebrate populations and wildlife arsenic an country that sees immense transient vertebrate populations walk done each year
- The Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas, successful the UK overseas territory of the Cayman Islands, person besides been enactment guardant for their exceptional value to marine biodiversity and their unthinkable earthy beauty
Two different sites submitted their afloat nominations to Unesco earlier this year, and stay connected the government's Tentative List.
They are The Flow Country, a ample country of peatland crossed Caithness and Sutherland successful the northbound of Scotland which plays a important relation successful supporting biodiversity, and the Gracehill Moravian Church Settlement successful Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: "All the locations being enactment guardant would beryllium worthy recipients of this accolade - and we volition springiness them our afloat backing truthful they tin payment from the planetary designation it tin bring."
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Image caption,The Zenith of Iron Age Shetland is simply a postulation of 3 past settlements dating backmost thousands of years
Laura Davies, HM Ambassador to Unesco, said the 5 caller sites added to the database "brilliantly bespeak the diverseness and quality of the UK and its overseas territories' earthy and taste heritage".
The DCMS said it volition enactment with section authorities and devolved administrations to make their bids.
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Image caption,The Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas, successful the UK overseas territory of the Cayman Islands, person besides been enactment forward
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