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
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- James
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- April 2020
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World Heritage Sites
- Pompei 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Brugge 4.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Stonehenge 4.5
- Neolithic Orkney 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Warsaw 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 4.0
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Potsdam 4.0
- Epidaurus 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Rhaetian Railway 4.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Sighisoara 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Forth Bridge 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Mafra 3.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Amiens Cathedral 3.5
- Graz 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Belem 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Pienza 3.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Lake District 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- The Flow Country 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5
- Semmering Railway 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Longobards in Italy 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- Saltaire 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
- 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, …