Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Category
Cultural
Inscribed under criteria (iii), (iv).
Region
Europe and North America
United Kingdom
Inscribed
2000
List reference
984
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape is about 30 km north of Cardiff. The nearest other World Heritage site is City of Bath, about 65 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Cardiff · about 861,000 peopleabout 30 km south
- Bristol · about 554,000 peopleabout 50 km south-east
- Swansea · about 294,000 peopleabout 60 km west
- Bath · about 93,000 peopleabout 65 km south-east
- Birmingham · about 2,285,000 peopleabout 110 km north-east
- Exeter · about 113,000 peopleabout 120 km south
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
United KingdomCultural67 km away
United KingdomCultural104 km away
United KingdomCultural110 km away
United KingdomNatural119 km away
United KingdomCultural119 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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