UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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A ring of stones on Salisbury Plain that has outlasted the empires that came after it — Stonehenge took over 1,500 years to build, aligns precisely with the summer and winter solstice sun, and still draws thousands of people to stand among the stones for free, twice a year, at dawn.
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A quiet Shropshire valley where a Quaker ironmaster’s furnace and the world’s first iron bridge quietly launched the Industrial Revolution — Ironbridge Gorge is Britain’s founding UNESCO World Heritage Site.