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Black country UNESCO Global Geopark

GB

Visit the Red House Glass Cone, one of the UK’s last surviving glassmaking cones, now a visitor centre showcasing the region’s glassmaking heritage.Explore Bumble Hole and Warrens Hall, a historic coal mining landscape and active canal junction central to the Black Country’s industrial past.Discover Park Lime Pits, a former limestone quarry now transformed into a local nature reserve with clear pools and species-rich grasslands.

Black country UNESCO Global Geopark in GB
Photo: Dudley Council from England · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationGB
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2020
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 35,600 ha

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