Abstract: As a heritage country, Britain has a unique advantage in the quantity and the protection situation of heritage according to the world cultural heritage list. Due to the long process of heritage protection, Britain has its own protection concepts and methods, and has accumulated rich experience in the heritage protection under the cultural dimension. This paper studied the two cultural heritage protection situations of the ancient cities of York and Bath, through the comparative analysis of the buildings, streets and the surrounding environment, and walls, the British cultural heritage protection and inheritance experience was studied from the perspective of historical and cultural, and then the experience enlightenment on cultural heritage protection in our country was also discussed.