List of heists in the United Kingdom

|+{{sronly|List of heists in the United Kingdom}}

! scope="row" | Great Gold Robbery

| Between London and Folkestone

| £0.012 million (£12,000){{cite news |title=The Great Gold Robbery, 1855 |url=https://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/our_history/crime_history/the_great_gold_robbery,_1855.aspx |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=British Transport Police |date=n.d. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624194932/https://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/our_history/crime_history/the_great_gold_robbery,_1855.aspx |archive-date=24 June 2020 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Format price|{{Inflation|UK|12000|1855}}}}

! scope="row" | Theft of the Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

| Thomas Agnew & Sons, Mayfair, London

| £0.01 million (£10,605){{cite news |title=Gainsborough's "Duchess of Devonshire" |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1302&dat=18771013&id=3FwQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4265,3122836 |access-date=7 July 2020 |work=The Sydney Mail |date=13 October 1877 |archive-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821125637/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1302&dat=18771013&id=3FwQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4265%2C3122836 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Format price|{{Inflation|UK|10605|1876}}}}

! scope="row" | Hatton Garden Post Office robbery

| Hatton Garden, London

| £0.08 million (£80,000){{cite web |title=Hatton Garden Post Office Robbery |url=https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/hatton-garden-post-office-robbery/ |website=The Postal Museum |access-date=29 November 2020 |date=5 March 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170137/https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/hatton-garden-post-office-robbery/ |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.08|1881|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" |Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, regalia of the Order of St Patrick and other jewels

| Dublin Castle, Dublin{{efn|Then in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.}}

| £0.033 million (£32,550){{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%E2%80%9Ccrown-jewels%E2%80%9D-2007/photo-gallery/dmp2/ |title=DMP – poster 2 |year=2007 |orig-year=Original date 8 July 1907 |publisher=Dublin Metropolitan Police |access-date=2 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019194512/http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%e2%80%9ccrown-jewels%e2%80%9d-2007/photo-gallery/dmp2/ |archive-date=19 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%E2%80%9Ccrown-jewels%E2%80%9D-2007/photo-gallery/dmp/ |title=DMP – poster 1 |year=2007 |orig-year=Original date 8 July 1907 |publisher=Dublin Metropolitan Police |access-date=2 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206073814/http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%e2%80%9ccrown-jewels%e2%80%9d-2007/photo-gallery/dmp/ |archive-date=6 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |author= |title=The mystery of the missing Crown Jewels |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-mystery-of-the-missing-crown-jewels-1.1055099 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location= |date=26 March 2002|access-date=2 March 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%E2%80%9Ccrown-jewels%E2%80%9D-2007/photo-gallery/dmp3/|title=DMP – poster 3|year=2007|publisher=National Archives of Ireland|access-date=2 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019201511/http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/online-exhibitions/the-theft-of-the-irish-%e2%80%9ccrown-jewels%e2%80%9d-2007/photo-gallery/dmp3/|archive-date=19 October 2013|url-status=dead}}

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.032550|1907|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Great Pearl Robbery

| Hatton Garden, London

| £0.15 million (£150,000){{cite web |title=Great pearl robbery |url=https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/history/catastrophes-and-claims/great-pearl-robbery |website=Lloyd's |access-date=29 November 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170144/https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/history/catastrophes-and-claims/great-pearl-robbery |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.15|1913|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Croydon Aerodrome robbery

| Croydon Airport, Surrey

| £0.021 million (£21,000){{cite news |last1=Whalley |first1=Kirsty |title=Secrets of gold bullion heist revealed |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/4075336.secrets-of-gold-bullion-heist-revealed/ |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=Sutton & Croydon Guardian |date=26 January 2009 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091114/https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/4075336.secrets-of-gold-bullion-heist-revealed/ |archive-date=27 March 2019 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Format price|{{Inflation|UK|21000|1935}}}}

! scope="row" | Eastcastle Street robbery

| Eastcastle Street, London

| £0.287 million (£287,000)

| £{{Format price|{{Inflation|UK|287000|1952}}}}

! scope="row" | KLM bullion heist

| Holborn, London

| £0.04 million (£40,500){{cite news |title=Air Steward's Clue On Gold Robbery |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18461418 |access-date=29 November 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) |date=1 October 1954 |page=3 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170139/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18461418 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.045|1954|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington

| National Gallery, London

| £0.14 million (£140,000)

| £{{Format price|{{Inflation|UK|140000|1961}}}}

! scope="row" | Great Train Robbery

| Mentmore, Buckinghamshire

| £2.6 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|2.6|1963|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of the Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III

|Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

|£6.2 million
valuation in 2011{{cite book |last1=Amore |first1=Anthony M. |last2=Mashberg |first2=Tom |title=Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists |date=2011 |publisher=St. Martin's |location= Boston & New York City |isbn=978-0-230-33742-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5A05gzjmEsC |access-date=6 July 2020 |language=en |pages=68 |format=eBook |archive-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821125638/https://books.google.com/books?id=f5A05gzjmEsC&dq= |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|6.2|2011|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Barclays Bank robbery, Ilford

| Ilford, London

| £0.237 million (£237,000){{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Noel 'Razor' |title=The Dirty Dozen: The real story of the rise and fall of London's most feared armed robbery gang |date=20 August 2020 |publisher=John Blake |isbn=978-1-78946-227-2 |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6nvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT60 |language=en |access-date=29 November 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170136/https://books.google.com/books?id=R6nvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT60 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.237|1970|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Baker Street robbery

| Baker Street, London

| £3 million{{cite book |last1=Bowers |first1=Gordon |title=The Great Diamond Heist – The Incredible True Story of the Hatton Garden Diamond Geezers |date=2016 |publisher=Kings Road | location=London |isbn=978-1-78606-078-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzmtDwAAQBAJ |access-date=21 June 2020 |language=en |archive-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821125654/https://books.google.com/books?id=UzmtDwAAQBAJ&dq= |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|3|1971|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Barclays Bank robbery, Wembley

| Wembley, London

| £0.138 million (£138,000)

| £{{Inflation|UK|0.138|1972|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Bank of America robbery, Mayfair

| Mayfair, London

| £8 million{{cite news |last1=Summers |first1=Chris |title=The role of the 'inside man' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7154191.stm |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=BBC News |date=28 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305073600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7154191.stm |archive-date=5 March 2012 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|8|1975|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | A13 bullion heist

| A13, east London

| £3.4 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|3.4|1980|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Marlborough diamond robbery

| Sloane Street, London

| £1.5 million{{cite news |title=Armed robbers in '£1m' Graff jewellery heist |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1490922/Armed-robbers-in-1m-Graff-jewellery-heist.html |access-date=7 July 2020 |work=Daily Telegraph |date=28 May 2005 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728224037/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1490922/Armed-robbers-in-1m-Graff-jewellery-heist.html |archive-date=28 July 2019 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|1.5|1980|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Brink's-Mat robbery

| Heathrow International Trading Estate, Heathrow Airport, London

| £26 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|26|1983|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Security Express heist

| Shoreditch, London

| £6 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|6|1983|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery

| Knightsbridge, London

| £40 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|40|1986|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Loughton incinerator thefts

| Loughton, Essex

| £0.6 million{{cite news |title=Banknotes 'stuffed in woman's underwear': Bank sues families over |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/banknotes-stuffed-woman-s-underwear-bank-sues-families-over-stolen-pounds-600-000-1369661.html |access-date=16 December 2020 |work=The Independent |date=23 October 2011 |language=en}}

|£{{Inflation|UK|0.6|1992|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | City bonds robbery

| Nicholas Lane, City of London

| £291.9 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|291.9|1990|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Graff workshop robbery

| Hatton Garden workshop, London

| £7 million{{cite news |last1=Davenport |first1=Justin |title=£40m Mayfair raid is biggest gems heist in British history |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23730811-details/40m+Mayfair+raid+is+biggest+gems+heist+in+British+history/article.do |access-date=7 July 2020 |work=Evening Standard |date=11 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812110038/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23730811-details/40m+Mayfair+raid+is+biggest+gems+heist+in+British+history/article.do |archive-date=12 August 2009 |location=London}}

| £{{Inflation|UK|7|1993|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Midland Bank Clearing Centre heist

| Salford, Manchester

! scope="row" | Theft of View of Auvers-sur-Oise

| Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

| £3 million{{cite news |last1=Ezard |first1=John |title=Smoke bomb masks burglar's theft of £3m Cezanne |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/03/johnezard |access-date=7 July 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=3 January 2000 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219072518/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/03/johnezard |archive-date=19 December 2019 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|3|2000|r=1|fmt=c|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of Charles Darwin's notebooks

| Cambridge University Library

| data-sort-value="999" |"£ millions"{{cite news |title=Charles Darwin: Notebooks worth millions lost for 20 years |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55044129 |access-date=29 November 2020 |work=BBC News |date=24 November 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170145/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55044129 |url-status=live }}

| data-sort-value="999" |"£ millions"

! scope="row" | Hatton Garden safe deposit theft

| Hatton Garden, London

| £1.5 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|1.5|2003|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Graff robbery 2003

| New Bond Street, London

| £23 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|23|2003|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of Buccleuch Madonna

| Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

| £25 million{{cite news |last1=Cramb |first1=Auslan |title=Four held as stolen da Vinci painting found |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565071/Four-held-as-stolen-da-Vinci-painting-found.html|work=Daily Telegraph |access-date=7 July 2020 |date=4 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617220028/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565071/Four-held-as-stolen-da-Vinci-painting-found.html |archive-date=17 June 2020 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|25|2003|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Waddesdon Manor heist

| Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

| £5 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|5|2003|r=1|fmt=c|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Whitworth Art Gallery heist

| Manchester

| £4 million{{cite news |title=Stolen paintings back on show |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3037731.stm |access-date=29 November 2020 |work=BBC News |date=19 May 2003 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129170142/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/3037731.stm |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|4|2003|r=1|fmt=c|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Gallaher Group cigarette robbery

| Belfast

| £2 million{{cite news |last1=Bowcott |first1=Owen |last2=Oliver |first2=Ted |title=£20m stolen in UK's biggest bank robbery – was it paramilitaries or common criminals? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/22/ukcrime.northernireland |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=22 December 2004 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218225756/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/22/ukcrime.northernireland |archive-date=18 February 2020 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|2|2004|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Northern Bank robbery

| Belfast

| £26.5 million{{cite news |title=Police say IRA behind bank raid |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4154657.stm |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=BBC News |date=7 January 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101121344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4154657.stm |archive-date=1 January 2007 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|26.5|2004|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Graff robbery 2005

| Sloane Street, London

| £2 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|2|2005|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of Reclining Figure 1969–70

| Perry Green, Hertfordshire

| £3 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|3|2005|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Ramsbury Manor heist

| Ramsbury, Wiltshire

| £30 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|30|2006|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Securitas depot robbery

| Tonbridge, Kent

| £53 million{{cite news |title=£53m raid gang 'kidnapped child' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6237470.stm |access-date=21 June 2020 |date=26 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703111205/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6237470.stm |archive-date=3 July 2007|work=BBC News |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|53|2006|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Graff robbery 2007

| Sloane Street, London

| £10 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|10|2007|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Graff Diamonds robbery

| New Bond Street, London

| £40 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|40|2009|cursign=£|r=1}} million

! scope="row" | Chatila heist

| Old Bond Street, London

| £1 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|1|2010|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Fitzwilliam Museum burglary

|Trumpington Street, Cambridge

|£57 million{{Cite news |date=2016-04-05 |title=Museum raids gang: How police caught £57m heist masterminds |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35941797 |access-date=2024-06-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

|£{{Inflation|UK|57|2012|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary

| Hatton Garden, London

| £14 million

| £{{Inflation|UK|14|2015|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Feltham book heist

| Feltham, London

| £2.5 million{{cite news |last1=Bland |first1=Archie |title=Rare books stolen in London heist found under floor in Romania |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/18/rare-books-stolen-london-heist-found-floor-romania |access-date=19 September 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=18 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919131644/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/18/rare-books-stolen-london-heist-found-floor-romania |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|2.5|2017|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of the Portland Tiara

| Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

| £3.75 million{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=Jessica |title=Ashley Cole among other targets of gang who stole £3.75m tiara, court told |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/11/ashley-cole-targets-gang-stole-375m-tiara-portland |access-date=11 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=11 April 2022 |language=en}}

| £{{Inflation|UK|3.75|2018|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Theft of America

| Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

| £4.6 million{{cite news |last1=Media |first1=P. A. |title=Artist pans claims he orchestrated theft of solid gold toilet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/15/artist-pans-claims-he-orchestrated-theft-of-solid-gold-toilet |access-date=21 June 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=15 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915153933/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/15/artist-pans-claims-he-orchestrated-theft-of-solid-gold-toilet |archive-date=15 September 2019 |url-status=live }}

| £{{Inflation|UK|4.6|2019|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Le Vian diamond robbery

| Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey

| £4.1 million{{Cite web|title=Gang convicted of £4.1m jewellery robbery |publisher=The Crown Prosecution Service |date=31 January 2020 |url=https://www.cps.gov.uk/south-east/news/gang-convicted-ps41m-jewellery-robbery|access-date=17 August 2020 |language=en|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204031508/https://www.cps.gov.uk/south-east/news/gang-convicted-ps41m-jewellery-robbery|url-status=live}}

|£{{Inflation|UK|4.1|2019|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Tamara Ecclestone jewellery theft

| Kensington, London

| £26 million{{Cite news |last=Harrison |first=Ellie |date=2022-07-25 |title=Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone's Diamonds? The story behind the biggest domestic burglary in British history |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/tamara-ecclestone-diamonds-true-story-bbc-iplayer-b2130537.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |work=The Independent |language=en}}

|£{{Inflation|UK|26|2020|r=1|cursign=£}} million

! scope="row" | Christ Church Picture Gallery heist

| Christ Church, Oxford

| £10 million{{Cite web|last=Coke|first=Hope|date=17 March 2020|title=Suspected boat escape in £10 million Oxford art heist|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/10-million-artworks-stolen-christ-church-gallery-oxford|access-date=17 August 2020|website=Tatler|language=en-GB|archive-date=21 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821125641/https://www.tatler.com/article/10-million-artworks-stolen-christ-church-gallery-oxford|url-status=live}}

|£{{Inflation|UK|10|2020|r=1|cursign=£}} million