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Great that Unesco might recognise  "an area of remarkable uniqueness and breath-taking beauty".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57945263

Provided they don't decide that climbers are spoiling it!

Shouldn't would heritage sites be almost unique, a one off, stonehenge, great wall, pyramids... a slate quarry hardly seems worth protecting, and protecting from what!? 

Like damaging it by placing bolts? 

Indeed. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In 1982 I walked across Swaledale on the PW and saw abandoned lead mine workings for the first time. My mate thought they were ugly and should be erased whilst I thought they were fascinating and added a unique quality to the scene. I still hold this view.

Bolting? Chalk?

As for "breathtaking beauty", I think they may have meant "breathtaking ugliness". The heritage thing makes sense though.

Possibly it's the sum of many individual parts creating a whole landscape. Roman forts and various associated structures are common in Britain but at Hadrian's Wall they all combine in a unique way. That's why it's a UNESCO site.

I think with quarries it depends, there are quite a lot of them. Simply being a quarry can't really be enough. Intact historic building, original equipment, ramps, rails etc.. something that's more akin to a museum, not just a pile of spoil. 

The wall marking the most northern point of the roman empire is quite significant. If you ignore the earth wall that ran across Scotland, through Glasgow that you can still find parts of today. It's a fairly major piece of European history. 

Slate? Not so sure. It doesn't mean something doesn't have local, regional or national value. But globally, is it really significant? 

I'm not well up on Welsh slate history but didn't it 'roof' the empire? I did read somewhere that Dent 'marble' is somewhere in the Vatican so slate going global wouldn't be too farfetched.

Glad they have been awarded it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57986167