As the weaker sterling makes European holidays more expensive and interest rises in staying at home within the UK, how many of the UK world Heritage sites have you managed to visit? Did you know that there are currently 26 sites designated by UNESCO as being of world Heritage standards within the UK. These are:

Bath (city)*
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blenheim Palace *
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine’s Abbey and St. Martin’s Church
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape* (the Eden project is part of this, surely this must make future lists)
Derwent Valley Mills*
Dorset and East Devon Coast*
Durham Castle and Cathedral*
Edinburgh, New Town*
Edinburgh, Old Town*
Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast*
Greenwich (Maritime Heritage)*
Gwynedd – Castles and Town Walls of King Edward
Hadrian’s Wall*
Ironbridge Gorge*
Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens of
Liverpool (surely The Three Graces?)*
London, Tower of*
London, Westminster Abbey*
London, Westminster Palace and Saint Margaret’s Church*
New Lanark
Orkney  (Neolithic heart)
Saltaire
St. Kilda
Stonehenge (plus Avebury and associated sites)
Studley Royal Park, including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

I have put a star by the ones I’ve managed to get to so far (16 down, ten to go), and hope that I can make it to a few more this year. How I’ve never been to Stonehenge is thoroughly unforgiveable, I’ll have to admit, and I will also be honest and say that it took me four years of study at Edinburgh University before I finally went inside the castle.

What are your local tourism ‘not seen yet’ confessions?