Is the SMALLEST City the GREATEST City?
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- #wales #uk #city #stdavids #pembrokeshire #turdtowns
Welcome back to Turdtowns the channel that visits the leaser known places in the UK! We are still over in Wales right now so I thought it was only appropriate that whilst here I make a video about the smallest City in the UK to find out if it’s also the best City in the UK!
This is St David’s in Pembrokeshire Wales. It’s a very pretty place and it made a real change to the normal places I have to visit for this channel. 
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You dropped the ball with this one. 10 minute further drive and you get to White sands......amazing beach and an incredibly unique coastline with "mini mountains" to climb.
If you're still in Wales..........Check out Cowbridge, Llantwit Major and Barry.
Loved your best towns in somerset video. Maybe Turdtowns and Terrific Towns will give you more content for the future and increase the channel size. Once you have done Turdtowns in each county it will be difficult to get more content. Peace.
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St David’s is my favourite place in west wales. Whitesands bay is paradise, and the coastal walk along the cliffs is breathtaking ❤
My local turdtown in Ireland,.. Ennis, was due to gain city status many years ago but the council refused to upgrade the infrastructure to suit the guidelines. The recently spent their budget on a new glass covered market area. It was shite. The market moved out to a different area. Local councils are the worst thing to happen to most towns.
I'm from Pembrokeshire and I do actually go on the ferry to Ireland on day trips. I am only a teenager so I think It's quite rare that a teenager will enjoy that
All a young person needs is an internet connection and a games console and they are sorted no matter where they live. (Just kidding).
On day trips?! As I recall (it has been quite a while, though), it's over three hours each way? You must really like ferries 😁
I don't think I could afford it but I'd rather like to live there. Quiet and boring sounds good to me.
I live just down the road from st davids,..... You can buy a house around here for around 100 grand
@@gilesleonard6876exactly how far is just down the road…? Would you be calling a caravan a house ? As you could buy a second hand airstream for about £100G..
Paradise I want to more than anything powrreslking the hills woods cliffs mountains utter bliss
@@griswald7156 close enough that my kids go to school there.... Not sure what an airstream is, but I bought a 2 bed cottage with all round gardens, down a country lane for just over 100k a couple of years ago.... property is still relatively cheap in west Wales..... But there's no work or prospects around here, it's definitely a place for the laid back or retired
You should have stayed longer. St. David's is populated with a significant number of creative & eclectic artists, musicians, actors, writers, cool surfer dudes and thoroughly lovely people.
Mind you they wouldn't want everyone to know that. Best to keep it secret and tell everyone it is boring.
I suspect/hope that our narrator is underselling St David’s to keep it as wonderful as it is…
'creative & eclectic artists' - I've always loved St David's, but I have to say you've now given me second thoughts 😁 Maybe I've just seen one too many bits of driftwood with pastel coloured yachts nailed to them 😁
@@davidf6326 well there is at least one major Hollywood actor living in the area as well many musicians and film makers. Graham Hurd-Wood, David Hughes and Raoul are renowned. But there are many more. It really is a very special place but not at a superficial level.
I think Rochester in Kent used to be a cathedral city back in the day but they forgot to put in the paperwork last time and so now it’s not… Even though it still has a Cathedral!
St David's it is not only about Cathedral! there are some amazing remains of old medieval harbours and chapels just out of the City and along one of the most stunning British stretches of the Coast.
As an aussie we loved spending a week in St Davids. Simply beautiful.
St Davids and north Pembrokeshire generally is full of people who look and sound like Tubbs and Edward from The League of Gentlemen.
Fun fact - St David's Cathedral is also known as, the Heart attack capital of Wales (Courtesy of my dark humoured Paramedic friend that covers the area for the NHS)
St Davids is beautiful out of season. Whitesands is fabulous. Lovely people. A great ambience. Well worth visiting the cathedral. A car park down the bottom. No need to climb all the steps. Limited Disabled parking to the left of the great doors. The ride from Haverfordwest or from Fishguard is very picturesque. Beaches and countryside. Not boring at all.
It is good for the reasons you say - that really appeals to someone of your age.
To me, and most youngsters it is incredibly boring.
At the same time you'd probably say that my love of drifting cars whilst wearing suspenders is boring.
Each to their own
I visited St. David's a very long time ago when I used to live in the North of Wales and we'd travel around and to the South and West coastlines to visit. Lovely little city and the boat trip to the island is peaceful, we saw a seal peek up and stare at us from the boat before dipping back down when we went across which I remember as if it was yesterday.
It's more than just a pile of rocks; it's history you ballbeg! 😂
Great video as always!
St Davids is a quaint holiday spot for a short visit, but not really a place to retire to - e.g. lack of public transport, and it's also 16 miles along the Welsh roads to the nearest hospital. BTW: Did you go to St Asaph, the UK's second-smallest city, also in Wales, but at the other end?
We love St David´s - Most of the year it is quiet, peaceful and stress free - the only time to avoid the journey to visit it is in July and August when tourists looking for fish and chips (with lager to wash them down) clutter up our beautiful lanes ...
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I grew up in Fishguard and as a kid there used to be special offers to go over to Rosslea in Ireland return for £10. When You arrive in Rosslea, there isn't anything to do other than a quick walk to a chip shop and then back to the port for the return trip about 3 hours after arriving. Riveting 😮
My over riding memory of St Davids is it's the first time I ever smelled weed.
Walking down the Hill to St Non's my grandmother wonders what the funny smell coming from a bunch of hippies was (late 70s) and my mother started laughing. Years later I was able to put 2 and 2 together.
Beautiful little place unlike some of the other ropey places in Wales.
I was in St David's in august, driven my motorhome from Dorset. A long way west, but well worth it if you haven't been.
Pembrokeshire resident- yes day trips to ireland arnt unheard of, but its not worth the length of the ferry trip for most of us to be bothered with. Also as a 20 something, dating in all of Pembrokeshire is tougher than wresting with a shark
Gonna be staying there for a few nights in June, taking our big noisy motorcycle and raising hell I shouldn't wonder. It's around 160 miles from our place in Flintshire and a great ride down. Please visit North Wales, there's some rich pickings for your fantastic channel - Wrexham, Deeside, Holywell, Rhyl, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Holyhead to name a few. 🙏🙏🤣🤣
Always look forward to gazing into the bowl of Turdtowns...
I love the commentary on this channel 🤣 and it's interesting to see all these places that I won't bother going to now.
You've got to do North Wales, plenty of material there!
Wrexham would qualify as a turd town.
100000% maybe good to show what its really like instead of that nonsense that is on netflix
Now try St Asaph on the other side of Wales, which is the next smallest city in the UK; it's much easier to drive to, being straight off the A55 dual carriageway. Having been there, I'd say it's arguably more boring than St Davids. At least St Davids actually has a fair amount of shops, galleries and cafes within such a tiny area whereas in St Asaph, the vast majority have shut down and have slowly been converted into private residences. What's more, St Asaph doesn't have the level of picturesque that St Davids presents you with; it feels more like a generic village than a stunning touristy one. It's kinda in the same boat in the sense where it isn't exactly a Turd Town, but quite boring too.
Noticed Newport (Pembs) at the end there! Looking forward to that upload.
Lovely vid, and the drone shots show how lovely the countryside is (even if there is nothing else to do).
I travel down from Newcastle to fish on the coast in Pembrokeshire
Canny effort mate! Hope youve caught some gooduns!
@lawrencelimburger9160 yes a load of tope I travel the uk Ireland Norway Iceland fishing if you want to see a bad area try Teeside Middlesbrough Stockton Thornaby Billingham you be glad to get home
@@jimmyoconnell6167 Ireland has some top fishing spots my grandad used to go every year and enter fishing tournaments
You should read Ken Follett' s The Pillars of the Earth which is all about building a gothic cathedral in the 12th century. The answer to how it was done was "over generations, and with serious amounts of manual labour." That, and Prior Philip and Tom Builder didn't need to get planning permission. The villainous Bishop Waleran Bigod was mere play compared to your local authority in current year.
I go and stay 5 miles out from there twice a year and love the peace and quiet.Seafishing is great round there.One word. Unspoiled.
Genuinely buzz when I see there's a new vid up! keep turding all over lad!!
If you live in pembrokeshire you cant afford to live near the sea as all the properties have been bought by money from England. Most normal non retired people live in land, if you wanted to visit a nice town in Pembs with good shops you should have gone to Narberth. They have a shop there that only sells alcohol and home made gelato!
One road in , one road out, nice countryside , lovely beach ( white sands ) apart from that it’s like Royston vasey.
You need to visit Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cumbernauld a town there is by far the worst major town to live in this country, and there are also a lot of other pretty bad places, literally no channels I've seen covered Scotland yet we need a video there!
You should come to Scotland, there's a huge amount of Turd Towns along the Central Belt
I camped here and my friend went off in the early morning to go to Ireland…he came back early the next day…
I just appreciated being by myself at Whitesands….lovely…it’s well worth the journey to st Davids and in the summer it’s absolute heaven..as long as you dont need bingo or slot machines..and appreciate gorgeousness..
Subscribed!!,love me a good turd town 😊
St.Davids itself is a bit quiet, but the coast path walks, beaches, and fast rib boat tours around Ramsey island are all within 2 or 3 miles.
Along with ancient Hill forts and burial sites near Whitesands.
Got the ferry from Pembroke Dock once, but spent about 5 days in Ireland. They do offer duty free shopping trips around christmas where you don't even disembark, just pay £10 or so to sail out and back and stock up on booze and gifts.
Might do it just for the ride tbh
Pretty much spot on, nice place but quiet. Countryside around it is stunning though, decent pubs and restaurants (You should have checked out Grain for great pizza).
Never been to Ireland for the day (36 year old Pembrokeshire resident).
you should do a full video Rame peninsula Cornwall would love to hear your thoughts
This channel reminds me what a great decision is was to relocate to Bavaria, in southern Germany. Clean, organised, beautiful countryside, great railways and infrastructure, very low crime rate and fresh air!
"a bug farm"
sounds so father ted
Wasn’t someone cured there?
@@southcalderno Dougal, someone was lured there!
Younger folk don't really tend to take the ferry over anymore. My parents often used to drive from Swansea to Fishguard to go for a night on the piss in Ireland and also to buy duty free bevvy and cigarettes to sell in the pub when they came back
*The best sausage & bacon butty ever purchased by myself was in St David's, highly recommended*
Loads of Welsh travel to Ireland on cheap day tickets to load up on the Duty Free.
I went to Pembroke Dock once for the ferry that was grim 😅
I approve of St. David's because it's such a cool name and looks beautiful.
Ilkeston, derbyshire
your right about wales being such an interesting place
Sounds perfect. When you get to 'a certain age', boring is appealing.
Come to Christchurch, Milford or highcliff, in dorset and Hampshire, they're very old
Maybe, but far from turd towns!
Go to derby in the east midlands !!! And explore all the surrrounding towns there’s loads!!!
I was posted to Wales (RAF) in the mid nineties and have lived here ever since but NEVER been to St Davids
Peace and quiet outdoor activities well kept and civilized, that will do me.
I think you should visit North East Wales especially Rhyl. You’ll love it there 🤣
Love it there :-)
Turdtowns needs to come up north to Greater Manchester/Lancashire/Merseyside
Great to see you posting videos in Wales! St Davids is really boring I must say but it has its charm
Been their lovely placenr newgale and solva .. theirs a small prison behind the cathedral!
Solva is beautiful... St. David's is pleasant... but for me Solva is the place to visit...
I watched the Solva villages by the sea last night. It looks like a lovely spot. 😊
I work in bay view stores in Upper solva. Love it!
Some places just don't grow for whatever reason. St Davids must have been an important place in the early Middle Ages to get that magnificent cathedral, which must have had hundreds of people working on its construction. The whole of Wales only had a population of 150,000 at that time and the vast majority of the people lived in the countryside. For all we know St Davids might have had a population of a thousand 800 years ago, which would have made it quite an important place at the time and one of the larger settlements in Wales. A typical county town at the time only had a population of a thousand or so - Leicester had a population of 1,500. St Davids was clearly important to the Church, but not really anyone else because it is remote and rather isolated from the major population centres in Wales, so it is not surprising it has not grown on the scale of Cardiff or Swansea.
Have you done Crickhowell, Abergavenny and Hay-on-Wye in Wales?
They've go a nice National Park which was recently un-named next door.
'Bug farm' soon to be a fast food outlet.
I thought fast food outlets ARE bug-farms!
Cromer, Wells next sea, Kings Lynn. For example. The east is really weird
visit "Mold" in northern wales and see if it lives up to its name
Yes!
maybe try Conwy or Flintshire both counties have spectacular turdtowns worth a visit.
As a Scot watching this content. All these places in England make Cumbernauld look like Dubai.
I think we have some right turds here in Scotland, but then seeing this content reminds me mostly it's just areas here and very few towns or villages that overall bad. Don't get me wrong, some area's are absolutely terrible. Still, they pale in comparison to some of the places featured here.
I thought Glasgow was bad in places till I visited Sunderland. Never again!
Most amusing are the posh town videos. A lot of them just look like an average Scottish town or village.
im 27 and St David's is amazing, honestly a 10/10
Beautiful cathedral, but in summer takes ages to get there, parking difficult, impossible to get a seat in any cafe to eat. Forget Whitesands bay which has turnstiles on the toilets and cost 20 p to get into. I watched one poor bloke who was so desperate that he left his car in the middle of the car park and rsn to the toilets only to find that he didn't have a 20p coin. He then run back to his car and scrabbled around trying to find a coin. I took pity on him and gave him 20p. The cafe had long queues for rubbish food. Nothing else to do there.
I lived there for a couple of years during the lockdowns. It’s very pretty but quiet unless you venture out at night and there are quite a few drug dealers about !
The 20mph exists in many places in England too...
didnt wilko like make a comeback starting from plymouth,exeter,luton and then the locations will follow thanks to the range/c.d.s?
Yes they did. Also several Wilco products are available in Range stores and you can get your shopping bagged in a Wilco bag at the counter if you like (or a larger ‘The Range’ bag if that’s your preference). I’ve started working there in the new store in Leamington in fact!
Come to South Wales! I need your invaluable opinion on our "beloved", "fantastical" region!
Check his uploads!
If you want depressing, visit Barry Vale of Glamorgan, just outside of Cardiff.
Is your application for Chair of the Welsh Tourist board in the mail then?
As a grandad this place really appeals to me...granny swapping you say?😋
We Welsh need educating to understand why we should dislike where we live while quite liking it. It was like my old school in Carmarthen. I never expected the showers to be hot after rugby training. 'West Wales' was invented by the BBC for the three counties after they refused to use the word 'Dyfed' because it has an extraneous Welsh letter in it the f being v. It still catches out those smart kids on University Challenge to this day.
Pembrokeshire really is a hidden gem!
Ssshhh!
Is there anywhere in the UK that is nice without being quaint or oldie worldly? My ideal is modern glass buildings and loads of green. I have visited such an area but unfortunately it is abroad.
Coventry has you covered with the newly renovated pathway between the railway station and the city centre, consisting of spacious green surrounding neatly paved squares and new glass buildings. Likewise, with your ideal most people would point you to Milton Keynes, even though whether to call it 'nice' or not (like Coventry) is severely debatable. However, if none of those cities appeal to you, then City of London has many roof terraces that are free to access like the Gardens at 120 Fenchurch Street, which is one you can just turn up reservation-free and join the queue and you'll be up in 10-20 minutes. Likewise, you'll love the terraces on the Central Library (itself an icon of modern architecture) at Birmingham, just a short 5-10 minute walk from New Street station. However, the best place to tick all your boxes would have to be Hulme Park in Manchester, where you get the best view of Deansgate's new skyscrapers but surrounded by loads of green space at the same time.
@@AymanTravelTransport Thank you for your time, much appreciated. I see that you are very well travelled. Coincidently, I just put a short vid together about MK. Unfortunately the overpriced houses there are the lego type new builds, neither would I be allowed to live in a park. You have made me curious about Hulme Park and the others though so they have gone on the bucket list to visit. I have basically given up on the UK as I don't think there is the will to improve or modernise living conditions. By the government or the people.
Visit Dewsbury. If you dare!
People who buy second homes and left them empty most of the year, don't the water pipes burst during winter?😮
If there is a vape shop in town than you know it’s going to be a bad one.
I'm noticing a theme... you seem to have been on holiday to all these turdtowns when you were a wee tot. I think we are watching half entertaining travel "log", half exorcism of bitter childhood holidays where you got taken to all the boring places with no amusement arcades. Either way. Great job!.
it's not a turd but the Gower is fkn stunning if you are exploring Wales
I like piles of "stupid rocks'.
If you are a old person it would be a 10/10 location
Try visiting Llangollen…
I love St. David’s … I was stationed at nearby RAF Brawdy … I was on guard of honour at the Cathedral when Charles and Diana visited and I talked to both of them …Love Whitesands and nearby Solva … So many memories of this is beautiful corner of the uk.❤
And then a wild St Davids appeared!
Nothing for somebody younger you say? I think this is the PERFECT place to raise kids who shouldn't get into being a jerk who watches TikToks and tells everybody how "useless" school is because he will be an influencer. I'm 32 and I already hate teenagers.
It isn't PC to raise winners.
With the prices of visiting, raising of taxes, cost of house ownership, and disinterest in religion of younger people, it wouldn’t surprise me if this becomes a ghost town in less than 50 years. Sad, but statistically inevitable.
If the place has got a pub, a hiking trail, (which it looks like it would) i'm already sold. and i'm 32, been doing that since i was in my early 20's though. Not every place needs to have a club or a circus to be amazing. not every young person wants to go to Ibiza. zero to low crime, no litter or graffiti, nice homogoneous people. looks like the Isle of Man.
Though it's not a city for sure. and trying to compare it to a metropolis is a bit weird.
North Wales mate...
I disagree with your towny view. I live in Pembrokeshire and I’m looking forward to seeing the Dyfed Choir perform Handel’s Messiah in the Cathedral on 16th December. A wonderful start to Christmas.
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HAWKAMANIA RUNNING WILD !
Durham City is very small but its z place where the wealthy live
Durham may be small, but it's bloody massive compared to St Davids!
@AymanTravelTransport co Durham huge full of old pit villages
@@AymanTravelTransport I thought ẁells was the smallest
Durham struck me as a dump
North Wales will be fun
Caerphilly got to be worth doing! 😂