Tentative Lists

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee asks each country to prepare and submit a Tentative List which identifies sites which they intend to nominate to the World Heritage List.

In 1999 the UK Government published 'World Heritage Sites: The Tentative List of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. This list has formed the basis for submitting nominations to the World Heritage Centre. Eight sites on that list that have since become World Heritage Sites including Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, The Dorset and East Devon Coast, Saltaire, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Liverpool and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.