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675 places in the atlas, 32 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Exeter Ship Canal, also known as the Exeter Canal, is a canal leading from (and beside) the River Exe to Exeter Quay in the city of Exeter, Devon, England.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Chance Brothers and Company was an English glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Middle Iron Age Atlantic (vitrified forte) · Minch Hebridean islanders
Summit vitrified dun (28×18 m) with plastered rock-cut rain cistern (5.5 m³) on Garbh Eilean, Shiants.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Medieval (1235 – 1362 CE) · Anglo-Norman / Hanse
13th-century Humber port that briefly outranked Hull — parliamentary borough lost 1362 to storms and sand-spit destruction, now under Humber silt.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Crinan Canal is a nine-mile-long (14 km) navigable canal in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Greek geographic phantom (500 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek geographer / Phoenician trade secrecy
Herodotus ten Tin Islands phantom – Cornish tin coast inflated to archipelago at 50°N 5°W.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age (Ewart Park, 1300–900 BCE) · Fenland Late Bronze (Deverel–Rimbury, 1300–900 BCE)
380-m southern Flag Fen causeway extension (1220–1120 BCE) — double-post drove way to Whittlesey.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
King's Harbour Submerged Plane Wreck Dorset in Dorset, King's Harbour, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Carn Menyn Bluestone Outcrop Preseli in Pembrokeshire, Preseli Hills, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Dunwich Submerged Church Ruin All Saints in Suffolk, Dunwich, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (Middle–Late Iron Age, 350–50 BCE) · British Iron Age (Meare–Glastonbury ware, southwest Iron Age)
Iron Age (350–50 BCE) Meare East lake village — 400 x 90 m east island with 20 brushwood roundhouses.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
West Kennet Long Barrow East Chamber in Wiltshire, Avebury, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.