Heritage News: Lake District chosen as 2016 World Heritage nomination

Heritage News: Lake District chosen as 2016 World Heritage nomination.

The Lake District has been put forward as the UK’s World Heritage nomination for 2016, following an announcement this week by the Culture Secretary, Ed Vaizey. Five other UK sites had been considered for World Heritage nomination, including Chatham Dockyards and its Defences, the Flow County, Jodrell Bank Observatory, the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, and the Twin Monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow.

The Lake District World Heritage Site Status submission is to the UNESCO Category of Cultural Landscape. This reflects the area’s long tradition of independent farming, which has created a distinctive pattern of landscaping giving it outstanding universal value.

For more information on this announcement, please see the DCMS press release here.