| REZONED | Designated a new |
| TELFORD | A town in Shropshire, designated a new town in 1963 (7) |
| LIVINGSTON | Largest town in West Lothian, Scotland, designated a new town in 1962 (10) |
| CRAWLEY | Town in West Sussex designated a new town in 1956 |
| STEVENAGE | Town in Hertfordshire designated a new town in 1946 |
| CWMBRAN | Welsh community south of Pontypool, designated a new town in 1949 (7) |
| EASTKILBRIDE | Town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, designated a new town in 1947 (4,8) |
| HEMEL | --- Hempstead, town in West Hertfordshire designated a new town in 1947 (5) |
| VERSAILLES | Gardens in a city near Paris designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site (10) |
| VEZERE | This valley has some 150 prehistoric sites, including Lascaux, a cave with hunting scenes painted on the walls that are tens of thousands of years old. The valley was designated a UNESCO World Heritag |
| HEADSMASHED | This rather forthrightly named site, near Fort Macleod in Alberta, is a cliff over which hunters chased buffalo; it was used for 6,000 years. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. It |
| IONA | New Rochelle school designated a university in 2022 |
| TAOS | New Mexico Pueblo designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| TONGARIRO | Oldest national park in New Zealand (1887), designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 (9) |
| JASPER | National park designated a Dark-Sky Preserve by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |
| AVIV | Tel ___, Israeli city designated a World Heritage Site for its extensive Bauhaus architecture (4) |
| OLDTOWNLUNENBURG | Nova Scotia community designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995: 3 wds. |
| GRANDCANYON | Deep gorge of the Colorado River in N Arizona designated a national park in 1919 (5,6) |
| FERRARA | Provincial capital in north-east Italy (pop about 130,000), designated a World Heritage Site (7) |
| IRONBRIDGEGORGE | Shropshire location designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 (10,5) |
