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.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2008-01-01
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2015-11-04
Identifier
HESWHS
Presentation form
Digital map
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Distributor
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Maintenance and update frequency
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

  • Protected sites
Other constraints
Limitations on Public Access
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
Distance
3  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Denominator
2500
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
2001-09-20
 
Temporal extent
 
Additional 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 Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

FILE:GEO

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/AtomService/DATA/WHS.zip

ESRI Shapefile Download

OGC:WMS

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/World_Heritage_Sites/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OGC:WFS

 		https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/World_Heritage_Sites/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites - Guidelines v 3.1.0
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.
Degree
true
Conformity
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation

This Spatial Data Service set is conformant with the INSPIRE

Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and

services
Degree
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
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2020-09-24T14:29:03
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland
Position name

GIS Officer
Voice

0131 668 8832
Delivery point

Longmore House, Salisbury Place
City

Edinburgh
Administrative area

Scotland
Postal code

EH9 1SH
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

GIEnquiries@hes.sco GIEnquiries@hes.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
 
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Protected sites

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

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