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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emily Beament

Transatlantic cable equipment and gnome garden among heritage protected in 2025

The submarine telephone cable hauler and gantry at Enderby’s Wharf, Greenwich, is among the sites protected (Historic England Archive/PA) - (PA Media)

Transatlantic cable equipment, an Arts and Crafts garden with gnomes and elves and an “exceptionally” rare shipwreck are among the unusual heritage protected in 2025.

Government heritage agency Historic England has highlighted 19 of the most remarkable buildings and places given new or updated listed status this year – from a neolithic burial mound in the Yorkshire Dales to Second World War “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank defences in Surrey.

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