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Scheduled Monuments

Sites of outstanding universal value for all humanity

what is a world heritage site?

World heritage sites are places of outstanding universal value.

What is a world heritage site?

Details of the criteria required to achieve world heritage status.

Scotland currently has five world heritage sites.

World heritage sites in Scotland

The Antonine Wall is one of the UK’s most important Roman monuments.

The Antonine Wall

St Kilda is a group of five remote islands which lie in the North Atlantic.

St Kilda

This site is comprised of a number of significant monuments.

The heart of neolithic Orkney

An eighteenth century restored cotton mill village on the banks of the River Clyde.

New Lanark

This site contains nearly 4,500 buildings more than 75% of which are listed.

View world heritage management plans in our publications section.

Free publications

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Interested in visiting Scotland's World Heritage sites? Visit our Places to Visit section.

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