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United Kingdom - East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands
The English East Coast is globally important for migratory waterbirds and for its nearly contiguous complex of ecologically connected, coherent and immensely variable coastal wetlands. It includes many exceptional, extensive and biodiverse habitats located across a range of dramatic and dynamic estuaries as well as open coast ecosystems. These extensive coastal wetlands support over 155 different bird species most of which migrate internationally along the East Atlantic Flyway (EAF) which extends from the Arctic to South Africa. The extent and boundary of the proposed Natural World Heritage Site is largely defined by a series of existing protected nature conservation areas, designated for their international importance, including 21 Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for avian interest, 21 Ramsar Convention Wetlands of International Importance and 19 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for habitats and nonavian species, plus six nationally designated Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs). These sites are also underpinned by other national designations such as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The area within the proposed boundary contains almost 170,000 hectares (ha) of coastline including large expanses of coastal grazing marsh and c85,000 ha of intertidal including c17,500 ha of saltmarsh habitat, some reedbeds and c67,500 ha of mudflats and sandflats.
United Kingdom - Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park
Birkenhead Park is situated in the town of Birkenhead, in the Wirral Peninsula. The proposed site includes the originally designed parkland (44 ha), the Park’s eight lodges, and a selection of the mid- 19th century residential properties. The total site area is 51 ha.
Designed in the style of the English Landscape School, its undulating parkland consists of a crafted combination of earthworks, substantial tree stands, lakes, shrubs and grassland, and iconic buildings and structures. The core area of historic significance is bordered by Victorian villas, in line with the 1844 plan.
Aerial views reveal how the Park’s ‘organic’ shape breaks with the grid-iron of surrounding streets, creating the sense of a picturesque ‘natural’ landscape. The manner of its design – the irregularity of the lakes, planting, earth modelling, rockwork, as well as its carefully ‘hidden and revealed’ views – provides a feeling of countryside in an urban conurbation. The Boat House, the Swiss Bridge, the Rockery, the Grand Entrance as well as the Park’s six lodges (e.g. Italian, Gothic, Castellated, Normans, and Central) reflect different architectural styles, to enable all visitors to appreciate key phases in architectural history and the development of major European styles. There is no principal focal point, and all elements are of equal importance. This egalitarian approach shaped Birkenhead Park as a pioneering ‘democratic landscape’.
United Kingdom - City of York: historic urban core
York is a 2000-year old continuously inhabited, historically important English city, second to London in importance for much of this time.
York is submitted for listing as a World Heritage Site as the outstanding example of urbanisation in north-western and northern Europe initiated by the Romans and developed through successive influences (Anglo-Saxon, Viking-age, Norman) to the present day. It is the pre-eminent example of such a city because the coherence of its surviving buildings and townscape, augmented by well-preserved archaeology below ground, provides an unparalleled physical record of the fusion of successive cultures. This dynamic, well-managed city contains well-preserved evidence from all periods and as such provides exceptional testimony to the evolution of the urban culture of cities in north-western and northern Europe from the Roman arrival to the present day and meets UNESCO`s Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) Criteria (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) and (vi).
Historic York forms the centre of the modern city. It sits at the southern end of the Vale of York where a glacial moraine crosses the vale from west to east and is breached by two rivers, the Ouse and the Foss: these three key natural features define the city’s topographic setting. The city developed around the strategic tidal river crossing, an inland port connected by river and sea to Europe and beyond. The c.200ha site is enclosed by the 3.5km circuit of multi-period defences together with selected extra-mural areas and approach roads. From the 1st century CE, the Roman legionary fortress, its civilian settlement and the colonia shaped the town, extended and augmented since by successive Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian (Viking-age) and Norman developments. York Minster sits within the well-preserved defences, physically and visually dominating the site.
The site contains a diverse and well-preserved ensemble of buildings and structures dating from the 2nd to 21st centuries above-ground and an almost unparalleled set of multi-period, waterlogged, anoxic archaeological deposits below-ground. Exceptional public, corporate, ecclesiastical and private archives and internationally important museum collections are located in this outstanding compact and dynamic urban heritage site.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List
York is submitted for listing as a World Heritage Site as the outstanding example of urbanisation in north-western and northern Europe initiated by the Romans and developed through successive influences (Anglo-Saxon, Viking-age, Norman) to the present day. It is the pre-eminent example of such a city because the coherence of its surviving buildings and townscape, augmented by well-preserved archaeology below ground, provides an unparalleled physical record of the fusion of successive cultures. This dynamic, well-managed city contains well-preserved evidence from all periods and as such provides exceptional testimony to the evolution of the urban culture of cities in north-western and northern Europe from the Roman arrival to the present day and meets UNESCO`s Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) Criteria (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) and (vi).
Historic York forms the centre of the modern city. It sits at the southern end of the Vale of York where a glacial moraine crosses the vale from west to east and is breached by two rivers, the Ouse and the Foss: these three key natural features define the city’s topographic setting. The city developed around the strategic tidal river crossing, an inland port connected by river and sea to Europe and beyond. The c.200ha site is enclosed by the 3.5km circuit of multi-period defences together with selected extra-mural areas and approach roads. From the 1st century CE, the Roman legionary fortress, its civilian settlement and the colonia shaped the town, extended and augmented since by successive Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian (Viking-age) and Norman developments. York Minster sits within the well-preserved defences, physically and visually dominating the site.
The site contains a diverse and well-preserved ensemble of buildings and structures dating from the 2nd to 21st centuries above-ground and an almost unparalleled set of multi-period, waterlogged, anoxic archaeological deposits below-ground. Exceptional public, corporate, ecclesiastical and private archives and internationally important museum collections are located in this outstanding compact and dynamic urban heritage site.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List
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