199 sites in England were newly protected by the DCMS on the recommendation of Historic England during 2025, including 173 listed structures, 21 scheduled monuments, and five parks and gardens. Ranging from a Neolithic burial mound dating to 3400 BC in the Yorkshire Dales to an exceptionally rare shipwreck lost in 1903 known as the Pin Wreck in Dorset, the newly protected sites include a number of industrial heritage structures.
Industrial heritage sites newly protected are:
- Adams Heritage Centre, 17 Main Street, Littleport, Cambridgeshire
- Cast-iron guideposts (finger posts), Ashley, Cheshire
- Cleveland Bay public house and proto-railway station, Durham
- Cast-iron coal duty boundary markers, Essex
- Cowran Bridge, Skellion Bridge and revetment walls to Cowran cutting on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
- Drive Cottage and former motor garage, Devon
- Electricity junction boxes, Worcester
- Flockton Wagonway Viaduct, West Yorkshire
- Havenstreet railway station building, Isle of Wight
- K6 telephone kiosk, Barnsley
- K6 telephone kiosk, St Andrews Street, Cambridgeshire
- K8 telephone kiosk, Ferndown, Dorset
- Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal milestones
- Railway Overbridge, Swanage, Dorset
- Sheringham Railway Station, Norfolk
- Swanage locomotive shed, turntable pit and retaining wall, Dorset
- Submarine telephone cable hauler and gantry at Enderby’s Wharf, Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Turnbridge Mills (Hirst’s Mill), spinning block, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Weybourne Railway Station, Norfolk
Several industrial sites also recieved increased protection, including Draper’s Windmill, Kent, upgraded from II to II* listing. For further details of all new listings follow this link: https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/19-remarkable-places-granted-protection-in-2025/
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