World Heritage Sites

World Heritage Sites are described by UNESCO as exceptional places of ‘outstanding universal value’ and ‘belonging to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located’.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to protect and preserve such sites through an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, drawn up in 1972

Scottish Ministers identify and put forward sites to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for nomination.

This dataset includes both the legal designation and buffer zone boundaries of the World Heritage Sites in Scotland enscribed by UNESCO as well as non-statutory sensitive areas for planning advice. Once a World Heritage Site is inscribed, under the Convention, member states have a duty to protect, conserve and present such sites for future generations.

 
Citation proposal
. World Heritage Sites. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/011edcca-d7b5-4d90-9a57-4b5da5a3b9c0

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Date ( Creation )
2008-01-01
Date ( Revision )
2015-11-04
Identifier
HESWHS
Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

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Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
IPSV-Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary
  • Historic sites and monuments , Heritage
INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes
  • Protected Sites
General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus
  • Landscape Conservation , Conservation of Monuments , Protected Area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Protected sites
Use limitation

The dataset is INDICATIVE only.

This data is licensed under the UK Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ .

Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
If this data is reproduced it must be attributed with the following: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right [year]
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
3  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Denominator
2500
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Society
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S
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Supplemental Information
Historic Environment Scotland is a Non Departmental Public Body responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation's built heritage and promoting its understanding and
Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

  • WMS (1.3.0 )

  • WFS (2.0.0 )

OnLine resource
ESRI Shapefile Download  

Download zip file with World Heritage Sites shapefile, layer file and metadata

OnLine resource
WMS service for World Heritage Sites  

WMS service for World Heritage Sites

OnLine resource
WFS service for World Heritage Sites  

WFS service for World Heritage Sites

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-05-03
Explanation
This dataset is not in a conformed format (such as GML). However, it conforms to projection and metadata. Vertical data in metadata is currently from Chart Datum. The temporal extent of the data is not ended as this is a live dataset, which may change in the future. The version date of the data can be found under Temporal Extent.
Pass
true
Statement

St Kilda: created from Ordnance Survey Boundary Line (originally by Scottish Natural Heritage)

Edinburgh, Old and New Towns: created by onscreen digitisation against 1:2500 Ordnance Survey Landline from original georeferenced image from Management Plan.

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney: site boundary created from original scheduled areas at 1:10,000. Site buffer zone and sensitive area created by onscreen digitisation against ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping.

New Lanark: Site boundary and buffer zone created by onscreen digitisation against georeferenced maps from Management Plan at 1:25,000.

Antonine Wall: site boundary and buffer created by onscreen digitisation against Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping.

Forth Bridge: site boundary created by onscreen digitisation against Ordnance Survey 1:1,250 mapping.

Metadata

File identifier
011edcca-d7b5-4d90-9a57-4b5da5a3b9c0   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2019-09-24
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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