{"id":1536,"date":"2010-07-21T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2010-07-21T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:58:32","slug":"38-uk-places-seek-whs-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"38 UK places seek WHS status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On Wednesday (7 July) Heritage and Tourism Minister John Penrose published the list of applications for the UK\u2019s new Tentative List of sites for World Heritage Site status.<\/div>\n<p>From the Tynwald Hill Norse assembly site on the Isle of Man, to Navan Fort in Northern Ireland, to Brunel\u2019s Great Western Railway in Southern England, the 38 potential sites cover a range of countries, historic environments and landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>An independent expert panel will now be set up to assess each bid, and a new list of potential sites will be drawn up for submission to UNESCO in 2011. Mr Penrose said of the applicants: \u201cWe wanted a strong and varied list to eventually put to UNESCO, and I\u2019m delighted that so many wonderful, diverse places have been put forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For photos of each site see Photo 1:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thedcms\/galleries\/72157624441386586\/\">LINK<\/a> &amp; Photo 2:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thedcms\/galleries\/72157624316793087\/\">LINK<\/a><br \/>\nCulture Gov News:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\/news\/media_releases\/7220.aspx\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday (7 July) Heritage and Tourism Minister John Penrose published the list of applications for the UK\u2019s new Tentative List of sites for World Heritage Site status. From the Tynwald Hill Norse assembly site on the Isle of Man, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}