Much has been said about the highlights of Hadrian’s Wall, particularly the area around Housesteads and Vindolanda, and these are indeed best-preserved sections so should be top of the list …
James Bowyer
United Kingdom \ Member since April 2020
#462 115 23 3
From the North of England, became interested in World Heritage Sites just before all international travel was banned in early 2020 - what luck!
My most impressive site: Rome/Vatican City
My proposal for a new site: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone/Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
Recent Visits
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80Sept. 1, 2025Brussels & Cologne: Aachen Cathedral, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust, Cologne Cathedral ...
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10June 7, 2025Caves and Ice Age Art
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60May 25, 2025Botanical Garden, Padua, Longobards in Italy, Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles, Venice and its Lagoon, Verona …
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About James Bowyer
- Member since
- April 2020
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
Visits
- Rank
- #462
- WHS
- 115
- Tentative Sites
- 23
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 26
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Rome 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Neolithic Orkney 4.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Epidaurus 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 4.0
- Warsaw 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Mafra 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Sighisoara 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Forth Bridge 3.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Pienza 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- The Flow Country 2.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Longobards in Italy 2.0
- Major Town Houses 1.5
- Saltaire 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Lower German Limes 1.0
- Danube Limes 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- City of York
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof
- Birkenhead Park
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Qawra/Dwejra
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Coastal Cliffs
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas
- The Television Tower Stuttgart
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
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Reviews by James Bowyer
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Inscribed)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Derwent Valley Mills (Inscribed)
Derwent Valley Mills
This is an easily accessible site by public transport, with trains running hourly from Derby up to Matlock. For my visit, I disembarked at Whatstandwell and crossed the footbridge which …
Ironbridge Gorge (Inscribed)
Ironbridge Gorge
The Iron Bridge is an attractive if small structure over the River Severn, which was repainted in 2018 to what historians have determined was its original red colour. Set against …
Durham Castle and Cathedral (Inscribed)
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Hidden amongst the flurry of new inscriptions in the bumper 2020/21 session, the UK attempted to expand the boundaries of one its first ever sites. Durham was inscribed in 1986 …
Forth Bridge (Inscribed)
Forth Bridge
I enthusiastically agree with Squiffy’s assessment that the best way to view the Forth Bridge is from the water. Both the Maid of the Forth and Forth Tours are operating …
The Flow Country (Inscribed)
The Flow Country
I visited the Flow Country by train in July of 2021, taking the 07:00 ScotRail service from Inverness to Wick. It took 3.5 hours to cover the distance to Forsinard, …