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
Member since April 2020
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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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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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10Jan. 28, 2025Istanbul
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About James Bowyer
- Member since
- April 2020
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #479
- WHS
- 107
- Tentative Sites
- 23
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 26
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Vatican City 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 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
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Mafra 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Sighisoara 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Forth Bridge 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.5
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 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
- 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
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 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
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Longobards in Italy 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Saltaire 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 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, …