The Anonymous Widower

World Heritage Sites

Listening to the warm-up to the Grand National today on Radio 5 this morning, it struck me that none of the UK’s historic racecourses are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Liverpool city centre is but surely one of Aintree, Ascot, Epsom and Newmarket should be listed.

After all Newmarket and the Heath have been associated with horses since the time of Boudicca.  Newmarket is actually a corruption of New Horse Market. And every thoroughbred horse can trace its ancestry back to the small town in West Suffolk. 

And when it comes to other places that should be listed, the Forth Bridge is rightly on the provisional list, but Joseph Balzalgette‘s historic London sewers are not!

April 9, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Liverpool, London, Newmarket, World Heritage Site