Dudley's Bid For World Heritage Status

UNESCO Criteria:

The site is 'directly or tangibly associated with events or with ideas and beliefs'
The site 'represents stages of the earth's evolutionary history'
The site illustrates 'man's interaction with his natural environment'
The site 'contains superlative natural phenomena, formations and features'

Information taken from Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO, 1991.

Did You Know ?

Dudley's geology & man's use of it are so special that it is the subject of an on-going UNESCO World Heritage/ Geopark status bid.