10 Most Loved Towns in England

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  • Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024

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  • @AndrewLeighton-zw9bk
    @AndrewLeighton-zw9bk 17 дней назад +1

    Altrincham is my hometown. I live down south now but love it when I go back. Absolutely love the place.

  • @DB-ub3wx
    @DB-ub3wx 2 года назад +16

    I live in Stamford and honestly it is beautiful such lovely people

    • @surpenc
      @surpenc Год назад +2

      And didn't even mention Burghley house

  • @LukeKubinec
    @LukeKubinec Год назад +5

    I can't believe seeing Knutsford and Altrincham as we just discovered them very recently. We love both of them, they are really beautiful.

  • @stevegregory2867
    @stevegregory2867 Год назад +1

    Lived in knutsford from 1969to 1983,then again 1987 to 2001.First Saturday in May is the Royal May Day Carnival,children dress up. In costumes and walk through the streets to the heath,where their is a large fair,maypole dancing,and crowning of the May Queen,

  • @rosemaryfranzese317
    @rosemaryfranzese317 Год назад +13

    I am amazed by this choice. I do hope to visit Stamford because it does look lovely but I have been to Frome which was frankly shabby and Knutsford which is overrated. The selection of photographs used in this video is unlikely to justify the selections made

  • @christinenightingale336
    @christinenightingale336 2 года назад +7

    Tonbridge,Kent was once a thriving market town,now barbers,coffee shops charity shops and not much more very sad!

  • @lemdixon01
    @lemdixon01 2 года назад +11

    Shrewsbury in Shropshire and Nantwich in Cheshire.

    • @oaktree5488
      @oaktree5488 2 года назад +3

      I lived in Shrewsbury for 14 years. A beautiful place to live.

    • @gammock9871
      @gammock9871 2 года назад

      Totally agree!

    • @Pluggit1953
      @Pluggit1953 2 года назад

      @@oaktree5488 I live there and love it.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      Used to visit Shrewsbury regularly. There's a lot that's nice about it.

    • @blackporscheroadster-yw8hb
      @blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

      @@oaktree5488 Traffic is horrific in Shrewsbury centre.

  • @Brippy
    @Brippy 2 года назад +23

    Shocking selection. Ok I know my way around most of England, but let’s consider just Yorkshire’s entries. Ilkley is pleasant but a massively traffic congested place. Selby has a Abbey but the rest of the town is dreary and very ordinary. Towns in Yorkshire that are far superior to Selby include..Helmsley, Ripon, Knaresborough, Hawes, Grassington,Richmond, Whitby, Thirsk, Skipton, Settle, and others that I have not immediately remembered !

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      For heavens sake don’t tell people, as this is where we live and we want it kept secret.

  • @rockerjim8045
    @rockerjim8045 Год назад +5

    Essex in North Yorkshire! Maldon is very nice

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад +2

      I replayed that about 5 times🤣🤣🤣

    • @hashbrown1392
      @hashbrown1392 5 месяцев назад

      @@KenFullman don’t worry, it also said that Stroud shares a border with both Wales and Bristol 🤦‍♂️

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      Yes, l did note Essex is now in NY

    • @emily.letsendbslintheuk554
      @emily.letsendbslintheuk554 5 дней назад

      Gotta admit I re listened a number of times and ended up laughing, guessing this bloke was high when he decided Essex was in north Yorkshire. Essex ain't even in north England so uck knows how it ended up in North Yorkshire. Agree Maldon is a nice place to visit, but gotta say living there would be like living in many other Essex towns, I spent just over a week there a good few years ago and by the time I went home (also a town in Essex) it didn't feel much different to home, people are just as nice as are the shops and the like 😊

  • @intensivecare1334
    @intensivecare1334 2 года назад +9

    Love it 👍

  • @stephenduncan3605
    @stephenduncan3605 2 года назад +11

    Why wasn't anywhere in Cumbria mentioned like Kendal, Penrith or Kirkby Lonsdale?

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      This part of the world has enough towns to fill the 100 most liked. But we don’t want it floodedvwith tourists.

  • @chamkaur1160
    @chamkaur1160 2 года назад +13

    Southalabad in Lundonistan, and birmingapur in the Midlands also loved very much

    • @kamranhashmi1575
      @kamranhashmi1575 2 года назад

      And birminghur😃😃

    • @chamkaur1160
      @chamkaur1160 2 года назад +1

      @@kamranhashmi1575 and Leicestergarh, also bradfud kalan.

    • @chamkaur1160
      @chamkaur1160 2 года назад

      @@kamranhashmi1575 rotherharam, Newcaslsar

    • @DavoInMelbourne
      @DavoInMelbourne 11 месяцев назад

      @@chamkaur1160Bradistan sounds better.

    • @leroyengland1777
      @leroyengland1777 9 месяцев назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @BanjoGirl101
    @BanjoGirl101 2 года назад +2

    Frome is on my list of places to go. I'd love to go to one of their festivals and on one of their walking tours to fins out the history. This world is full of interesting places to go but we never have enough time to discover where we live. I like how most of the towns featured were in the middle of England.

  • @TomBartram-b1c
    @TomBartram-b1c 2 года назад +12

    Are we talking about places to go and have 3 days of wild fun or places to live all year round?

  • @darthvirago
    @darthvirago Год назад +3

    I thought Chester would be on the list. I don't live there, but i do like to visit.

  • @LyleFrancisDelp
    @LyleFrancisDelp Год назад

    I so very deeply want to visit Holmfirth. I'm a long time fan of Last of the Summer Wine.

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 3 месяца назад

    Knuts ford: the cutest name of them all 😍

  • @mahreda5335
    @mahreda5335 2 года назад +3

    great job
    i would like to ask about BedFord any useful information about this town please ??

    • @LabRat6619
      @LabRat6619 2 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      We visited a couple of people staying at the Swan hotel in Bedford in the summer of 1995. A river or waterway ran by the hotel,full of swans at the time. But I'm not sure that's very useful to you.

    • @axolotlgamer615
      @axolotlgamer615 6 месяцев назад

      I can tell you its named after a lorry company thats closed now

  • @arthuwood8255
    @arthuwood8255 2 года назад +4

    Driffield East Yorkshire, wonderful town.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      Nearly got to go there once when driving from Scarborough to Beverley,but my companion on that trip,who is from Hull,liked it.

    • @unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765
      @unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 Год назад

      Don't tell everyone I don't want every fu##er coming here aspecially the hotels getting filled up. Besides we have a slight issue with the little turds with bowl haircuts and northface jckets on causing a nucence near flemimgate and the tesco..

  • @alanabyss9246
    @alanabyss9246 10 месяцев назад +1

    How’s Brighton?

  • @ganrimmonim
    @ganrimmonim 2 года назад +1

    I now have "where has ye been scene I saw three" playing in my head.

    • @rorylyons1091
      @rorylyons1091 2 года назад +1

      "Where has tha bin, since I saw thee". It means where have you been since I last saw you.

    • @elainechubb971
      @elainechubb971 2 года назад

      Darn! Now so have I (at least, Rory Lyons' version of the words is the one I know).

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      That was my point you have to learn the local English, like in Chop Yat, reet?

  • @emmahalliday9870
    @emmahalliday9870 Год назад

    What about Morpeth in Northumberland. It has everything you need plus beautiful countryside all around

  • @druidswillow1052
    @druidswillow1052 2 года назад +11

    No Luton? That's a criminal omission IMHO

    • @Buildbeautiful
      @Buildbeautiful 2 года назад +6

      He has it on most hated list

    • @druidswillow1052
      @druidswillow1052 2 года назад +2

      @@Buildbeautiful Yes I was being sarcastic, don't think Luton would be on anyone's Most Loved Towns list

    • @landsea7332
      @landsea7332 Год назад

      Luton - Stay Clear - If only there was a way to flush it into the Atlantic .

  • @elainechubb971
    @elainechubb971 2 года назад +4

    Well, first, who chose these towns? Their residents? A random poll? Some organization that assessed them according to certain criteria, such as housing, jobs, beauty, climate, or what? A couple I haven't heard of. (I am English-born and -raised, but have lived in the U.S. for many years.) I have to say, I lived for a few years in Timperley, a rather unappealing bedroom suburb of Manchester next to Altrincham. We occasionally went into Altrincham, such as to the public library, but I really don't remember the town as being in any way outstanding. Mind you, this was from 1943 to 1947, when a lot of towns undoubtedly looked and were a bit bleak. We'd had to move from Loughborough, Leics., which was much more appealing to a child. I note many of the towns are in the North. Perhaps residents are just more passionate about their towns there. From vacations in different areas over the years, I've seen some towns that were a lot more appealing to a tourist, but I suppose that is a specialized view.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад +1

      The nearest I've been to it is passing through on a train up to Manchester,but one of the late 80s Madchester scene groups (cannot remember which) or artists released a song called Timperley Sunset; I think it was meant to be a response to Waterloo Sunset from a couple of decades previously.

  • @whyohwhy3407
    @whyohwhy3407 2 года назад +6

    What a lot of cobblers!

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад +2

      I didn't see Northamptonshire on the list.

    • @nickda1
      @nickda1 Год назад

      @@rjjcms1 Did you mean Northampton? Northamptonshire is a county not a town

    • @nickda1
      @nickda1 Год назад

      No its not cobblers they mend shoes lol

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Год назад

      @@nickda1 I did,and I know. Were/are some of the tanneries in other towns within the county?

  • @simonballard6413
    @simonballard6413 2 года назад +4

    What about lovely Leamington Spa?

  • @bowlerwildcatGaming1991
    @bowlerwildcatGaming1991 Год назад

    As a West Yorkshireman it make me proud to know West Yorkshire has a loved town evenyhough i don't live in West Yorkshire anymore

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад

      And I bet you never knew that Maldon in Essex is actually in NORTH YORKSHIRE? 2:20

    • @bowlerwildcatGaming1991
      @bowlerwildcatGaming1991 11 месяцев назад

      @@KenFullman no didn't know that thanks for the info

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад

      @@bowlerwildcatGaming1991And I do hope you DON'T believe that. 😁

    • @bowlerwildcatGaming1991
      @bowlerwildcatGaming1991 11 месяцев назад

      @@KenFullman No

  • @PeterSimmonds-mk8dl
    @PeterSimmonds-mk8dl 7 месяцев назад +1

    Whilst no problem with list, all nice towns but where are those in South of England, Kent to Cornwall. My own county has at least three to match lose listed, Arundel, Lewes and Rye.

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      We are blessed with the number of Great Towns in this Great Britain 😊

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 2 года назад

    4:20 : Illkey?? Never heard of it. I have heard of Ilkley.

  • @omaronnyoutube
    @omaronnyoutube 4 месяца назад +1

    I heart Hart

  • @tillthewheels
    @tillthewheels 2 года назад +4

    Is Malden in North Yorkshire, Essex or Surrey?

    • @coling7819
      @coling7819 8 дней назад

      New Malden and Old Malden are in Surrey,Nr Kingston.

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      Think someone is confusing Malton and Pickering with Maldon

    • @emily.letsendbslintheuk554
      @emily.letsendbslintheuk554 5 дней назад

      Maldon is in Essex, so no where near North Yorkshire. Maldon is about half hour from where I live and it is quite nice there but wouldn't say it was one of the top 10 most loved towns in England, it's liked but not loved

  • @sharontracey353
    @sharontracey353 2 года назад

    I love my bromine miss there in the USA 🇺🇸 now

  •  9 месяцев назад

    St. Austell, Cornwall or King's Lynn, Norfolk.

  • @woodenseagull1899
    @woodenseagull1899 2 года назад +2

    Burgess Hill Town. Its great culture and
    Art Gallery's are something to experience. It far outways the local
    Village of Brighton for culture. It has
    Everything going for it..Known for its
    Roman Baths, still active since
    Caesar .The Buck Centre is worth
    a visit..

    • @VincentComet-l8e
      @VincentComet-l8e 2 года назад +1

      That's some sense of humour!
      B.Hill is the town I use most for shopping, coming in from the sticks.
      But it is a place unloved by most - with no culture, art galleries or, especialy, Roman Baths.
      just take a walk through the shopping centre and observe the great unwashed shoppers...

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 Год назад +1

      As a resident of Burgess Hill, you gave me a real good laugh mate. I was surprised to not see it in the list of ten WORST places to live.

  • @MrRQBQ
    @MrRQBQ 2 года назад

    Well done for using the correct pronunciation for the town 'Frome'

  • @brentisone
    @brentisone 11 месяцев назад

    Strange tower of the church they have there in Molden, ...

  • @ellsw
    @ellsw 8 месяцев назад

    Great video with lots of info, but, somehow not as fun as your least liked towns series. Interestingly in some 'hated town' videos resodents sometimes complain that its empty and there's nothing to do, so I was amused that one of the best towns had residents saying they liked it cause it's empty and quiet!!

  • @raghuchetana5688
    @raghuchetana5688 2 года назад

    Super

  • @snowysnowyriver
    @snowysnowyriver 2 года назад +11

    Maldon in Yorkshire? Really? Thought that was in Essex. Maybe he meant Malton!!!!

    • @rockerjim8045
      @rockerjim8045 Год назад

      The photos were Maldon and he did mention the the River Blackwater

  • @itzumetric
    @itzumetric 2 года назад +1

    By "Hart", do you mean the entire district, or a specific town there?

    • @hashbrown1392
      @hashbrown1392 5 месяцев назад

      There’s no such town called Hart in England, so it’s the district. That entry makes no sense whatsoever

  • @ianmansbridge3646
    @ianmansbridge3646 2 года назад +19

    Is it because the assessment is ten years or more out of date that it makes no sense? For many of the towns shown it was obvious that they had little character to photograph but most of all it underlined how efemeral are the bases on which folk pick favourites. The big demon in all English towns is planning and development of exceptionally low quality compared to continental Europe, cheap and shoddy is considered more than adequate for us peasantry by our feudal masters. Very depressing.

  • @andrewsmith-cm9qw
    @andrewsmith-cm9qw 2 месяца назад

    BEACONSFIELD in Buckinghamshire beautiful rich SHOPS NOT BOARDED UP

  • @TheBish187
    @TheBish187 2 года назад +5

    Maybe a bit research is needed, Maldon is in Essex not Yorkshire

  • @pete280
    @pete280 2 года назад +1

    Oakham in rutland, the best place to live,

  • @colcester
    @colcester Год назад

    Where is Saffron Walden, or Rye, Stocksbridge in Hampshire????

    • @coling7819
      @coling7819 8 дней назад

      Saffron Walden ,,,,Essex,,,,Rye ,,,,,,East Sussex ,,,,Stockbridge,,,,Hampshire.

    • @colcester
      @colcester 8 дней назад

      @coling7819 jeez, catch up will you, this was a YEAR ago... 😄😀

  • @johannabezuidenhout4252
    @johannabezuidenhout4252 Год назад

    I think there are other towns that's got much more to offer. These ones is OK! On my visit I saw beautiful towns time was a factor to see more!

  • @wendypoole7041
    @wendypoole7041 2 года назад

    I don't agree at all. What is the source data? Olney, Buckinghamshire? Arundel? Oakham?

  • @sharontracey353
    @sharontracey353 2 года назад

    Love the West Midlands love me some brommie

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  • @flyinghedgehog3833
    @flyinghedgehog3833 2 года назад +3

    Bradford didn't make the list ? Shocker!

    • @stephenduncan3605
      @stephenduncan3605 2 года назад

      Ilkley is actually part of Bradford City Council area!

  • @mallydaballer
    @mallydaballer 9 месяцев назад +1

    Mate please add Harrogate

    • @markswales762
      @markswales762 Месяц назад

      Not for long a mosque on the way….down hill now

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      No, don’t tell people, keep it secret

    • @GeoffHome-u6r
      @GeoffHome-u6r 6 дней назад

      @@markswales762true

  • @simonjbrand
    @simonjbrand Год назад

    Who on Earth voted for these ? Seems like a competition for obscure towns few in England know about

  • @johnfoster7428
    @johnfoster7428 2 года назад +6

    Barnsley in South Yorkshire is the most loved town in England but the locals moan about it all the time because they don't want outsiders coming in (cummersin) to spoil it
    😂

    • @robertallmark248
      @robertallmark248 2 года назад

      Forener from Wolverhampton see you soon

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      It's either that or the Gotham strategy.

  • @robertlloyd8948
    @robertlloyd8948 2 месяца назад

    Yeah Stroud made number 2

  • @michaelhoward7414
    @michaelhoward7414 Год назад

    Stamford is the only one I like on this list.where is richmond north yorkshire?

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 2 года назад +6

    Cost of living low in Wilmslow?? Yeah right.

    • @gammock9871
      @gammock9871 2 года назад

      Yes I am sceptical too!

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      I bet the Cheshire fake tan set have ruined that one.

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 2 года назад

      Wilmslow is a rich suburb of Manchester. Like a Northern Essex. Bloody awful place.

  • @patrickfitzgerald409
    @patrickfitzgerald409 2 года назад +1

    Major shipbuilding industry in Selby up til 1974!? I think not.

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 2 года назад

      Selby is a dump. Full of pound shops.

  • @juicyfruit4378
    @juicyfruit4378 Год назад

    Bury St. Edmunds????

  • @sadisunel5764
    @sadisunel5764 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for watching. Greetings from Izmir-TURKEY. 👋

  • @craigroberts1957
    @craigroberts1957 2 года назад +27

    Maldon is both in Yorkshire and Essex according to this bozo.

    • @lemming9984
      @lemming9984 2 года назад +1

      yeah, hilarious!

    • @borderlands6606
      @borderlands6606 2 года назад +4

      This is what happens when algorithms create their own channel. Artificial intelligence makes artificial places.

    • @ethelmini
      @ethelmini 2 года назад +5

      Malton-Maldon it's all the same to voice recognition software.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      That had me confused.

    • @gtageri100
      @gtageri100 2 года назад +1

      Can I sniff your mandarins Craig?

  • @paulbroderick8438
    @paulbroderick8438 7 дней назад

    All OK if you have been left a sizeable inheritance. For the average person, no way.

  • @emily.letsendbslintheuk554
    @emily.letsendbslintheuk554 5 дней назад

    Few hiccups in this vid eg Maldon being in North Yorkshire, its no where near Yorkshire let alone North Yorkshire its in Essex so South East England. Wouldnt say these were the top ten mpst loved English towns as some are just average but i guess it depends what you think makes a town loved, its it the people, the history or the shops available as take any of these into account and you would get 10 very, very different top 10 towns

  • @kynchan3332
    @kynchan3332 Год назад

    Maldon, Essex is not in North Yorkshire, ceremonially or otherwise.

  • @visionsinblue7093
    @visionsinblue7093 2 года назад +5

    No towns between Gloucestershire and Yorkshire then?! The whole of Central England ignored 🤣

    • @voodooguy2
      @voodooguy2 2 года назад

      Understandably, they were concentrating on Yorkshire but felt it necessary to list some other places too.

    • @Dodo-ds7yk
      @Dodo-ds7yk 2 года назад +1

      I live in Worcestershire, we have the Cotswolds on our doorsteps, I know they tend to be villages but they have towns also

  • @23715
    @23715 Год назад

    I can't believe St. Helens isn't on the list

    • @nickda1
      @nickda1 Год назад

      From the amount of loved towns in the uk i wouldn't be suprised im sure its hard to place towns in a rank

  • @zoedeterding9147
    @zoedeterding9147 Год назад +1

    Although this is a very interesting video, it has the hallmarks of being written by ChatGPT.

  • @streakeybacon1390
    @streakeybacon1390 2 года назад +2

    You forgot HARROGATE North Yorkshire

    • @mxbx307
      @mxbx307 2 года назад +2

      Harrogate and Ilkley are probably the poshest and richest places in Yorkshire as a whole. Not that being posh and rich up there means anything eh ba gum.

  • @rjjcms1
    @rjjcms1 2 года назад +2

    The pictures of the first few towns featured in this video show off some of the features that would entice people to those places,but a lot of the pictures shown for the last handful of towns don't exactly do them justice,unless you've got a thing for 50s/60s/70s brutalism. It looks as though you rushed it to get it finished.

  • @robertnorman4306
    @robertnorman4306 Год назад +1

    You forgot sunny suffolk

  • @leegorman8322
    @leegorman8322 2 года назад

    What's wrong with Scunthorpe, I ask?

  • @Rob-fs8vq
    @Rob-fs8vq 2 года назад +10

    I'd find these videos interesting if you could be bothered to do some research instead of taking your "facts" straight off the internet. It's curious that of these "top 10 most loved towns in England," 3 are all within 10 miles of each other...either North Cheshire is a fabulous place to live or it's just lazy research. As for Marldon:- is it in North Yorkshire or Essex!

    • @trevorhart545
      @trevorhart545 2 года назад

      Maldon is Essex, Battle of Maldon 991, and of course the famous sea salt industry created by the Romans. Railways long gone, there were Two from Maldon, well across the River. Famous for its Thames Barges with their Ox Blood Sails and as a TV/Film location. Spoilt by massive housing development over the last 30 years. Blue Boar Inn is the original Coaching Inn. Close to where Jeremy Bamber murdered his sister (foster), her family and his foster parents. I lived between Maldon and Tolleshunt D'Arcy (Bamber Murders) and knew the parents socially. Jeremy IS Guilty and the TV version is accurate without that DS Jeremy would be free, never charged.

    • @liamgbooth
      @liamgbooth 2 года назад +3

      I think the narrator has somehow taken the research for 'Malton' an actual place in North Yorkshire, and got it all mixed up.

    • @blackporscheroadster-yw8hb
      @blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

      North Cheshire is one of the wealthiest areas in the UK. Most well known is Alderley Edge.

  • @stevegrant6464
    @stevegrant6464 2 дня назад

    Maldon is in Essex. Not Yorkshire.

  • @kubhlaikhan2015
    @kubhlaikhan2015 Год назад +6

    Your pronunciation of "Stroud" probably agrees with how most people pronounce it today, however it was once pronounced more like "strood". To my surprise, wikipedia agrees with me for once - in fact there is another town, in Kent, with the same original spelling and meaning and that is still pronounced "Strood" although they have changed the spelling. You can usually work out the original correct pronunciation simply by sounding each letter separately, so the "ou" in Stroud is oh-uh (almost "strode"). There is no phonetic basis for an "ow" sound. Alas it seems we usually give in to the bad pronunication of outsiders. Don't get me started on Frome.

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 Год назад +1

      Don’t be mad at the outsiders for not knowing how to pronounce names.
      Be mad at the locals for stubbornly sticking to a pronunciation that totally doesn’t match the spelling, and being weirdly patriotic about it.

    • @johnross2924
      @johnross2924 Год назад +1

      I've just messaged my daughter to see how she says it, she has been living in stonehouse for the last 5 years.

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад

      My son has lived in Stroud for 40 years and my daughter lived there for over 20 years. I never heard it called "strood" but when I moved to Colchester I discovered a road that connects Mersey Island to the mainland. This road is under water at high tide (so cutting the island off at time to time) and this road is called "The Stroud" (but pronounced "Strood") So that's quite interesting.

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад

      @@KasabianFan44It's not mad or weirdly patriotic to let someone know how to correctly pronounce a town name.

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 11 месяцев назад

      @@KenFullman
      I never said it was. What IS mad and weirdly patriotic is *making fun* of non-locals for “mispronouncing it”, or getting pissy about it. Big difference.

  • @jonahspiper
    @jonahspiper 2 года назад

    Was this the 10 worst or best?

  • @errolgonsalves8850
    @errolgonsalves8850 2 года назад

    Where does Middlesex feature?

    • @michaelrawson6261
      @michaelrawson6261 2 года назад +3

      It doesn't, because Middlesex is a COUNTY, not a town...!!!

    • @gammock9871
      @gammock9871 2 года назад +1

      and indeed isn't even that now - just part of London

    • @michaelrawson6261
      @michaelrawson6261 2 года назад +2

      @@gammock9871:... No, not PART of London, yes the majority of it falls within the wider area of London, but Middlesex is, as it has been since its inception, a COUNTY in its own right. With its own COUNTY coat of arms, it's own COUNTY flag, (both depicting a crown, above three Heraldic Seaxes) and it's own COUNTY cricket team.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      Unfortunately,most of it's long been gobbled up by the urbanisation of London's ever-expanding sprawl.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад +1

      @@michaelrawson6261 Don't worry,a couple of us had an amicable argument with a gentleman in a pub who insisted Watford is in London when it's in Hertfordshire.

  • @Dunnlrs
    @Dunnlrs 2 года назад +2

    You are joking - Stroud at #2.I can hard,y believe that.agree countryside around the town is beautiful but the town? I find the town tired looking and run down.

  • @tomb7427
    @tomb7427 2 года назад

    Harrogate, North Yorkshire

  • @robinbrum
    @robinbrum 2 года назад +1

    I think these towns were just drawn from a hat...

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer8154 2 года назад +1

    Surprised to see Stroud included. Depressing dump.

  • @briansykes2806
    @briansykes2806 5 месяцев назад

    Has the video maker actually visited these towns, or even visited England at all? I am not convinced he has. Leaning Canteen is apparently based in Sumy, Ukraine (good luck in the war against Russia !)

  • @BadBoyV1
    @BadBoyV1 2 года назад

    I'd rather live in Letchworth Garden City than all of this list, yes it has City its name but really is a town

    • @paperchain1239
      @paperchain1239 2 года назад

      Welwyn Garden City is not bad.Good countryside around.

  • @RJPaul-px6vt
    @RJPaul-px6vt 2 года назад +7

    Stroud has some pleasant countryside around it. Otherwise, it's a horrible little polarized town inhabited by annoying middles-class women in knitted hats who make bad jewellery, and work-shy drug dealers living comfortable lives in large council houses. There is no interaction between the two sides and they live in apartheid-like sectors of the town, the woolly hats brigade trumping around Waitrose in wellington boots and the unwashed masses gloomily wandering around Tescos. If you actually want to buy anything more useful than a crochet table mat you will have to head into Gloucester or Cheltenham, where they actually have shops. Unless your idea of eating out is a kebab and chips you'll go hungry. The local comprehensive school has one of the worst Ofsted reports in the country. The local parks are fine if you enjoy the aroma of cannabis and don't mind vodka-swigging kids hurling stones at you, and the town 'center' at night is an excellent place to visit if you fancy a spell in intensive care. The architecture is mediocre, even the older buildings, and a lot of it simple needs to be pulled down. The library is a sort of Internet cafe without coffee (and not many books either). There is an excellent sweet shop, but the presence of a decent confectioners is not enough to save the town. If this is the second-best-loved town in the UK I'm afraid the country is beyond redemption. One more detail: it's near the village of Slad, which was the setting for Cider with Rosie, but don't bother going there because it's no longer anything like the book. On the weekdays it is a sort of ghost village; all the house owners are in Notting Hill, waiting for the chance to come down and pretend to be country folk at the weekends.

    • @elainechubb971
      @elainechubb971 2 года назад +3

      Your post is both funny and sad. I gather the Cotswolds have suffered greatly from the weekend-home or second-home folks.

    • @RJPaul-px6vt
      @RJPaul-px6vt 2 года назад +5

      @@elainechubb971 What a relief, I now live in fear of angry Stroudies chasing me with sticks of organic celery! But seriously, it is indeed very sad about the villages, and this isn't just in the Cotswolds. The cost of houses in many villages in England make them prohibitive to all but the wealthy. The sorts of people who would once have worked in agriculture or small local industries now live in council housing. The village shop has gone, the village school is now an expensive home, the village doctor, the policeman are things of the past. The gorgeous medieval churches I used to enjoy looking round in my youth are often locked and bolted, and one fears for their very survival. If you visit almost any village you will find a memorial to all the young men killed in WWI, but you will not find their descendants there anymore. It is sad, and indeed the past is another country. 💙

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад +1

      @@RJPaul-px6vt That's sad,and one of the things that's gone wrong in our country.

    • @RJPaul-px6vt
      @RJPaul-px6vt 2 года назад +1

      @@rjjcms1 Indeed it is Ralph, and one of the reasons why I relocated overseas (something that I am not alone in having done). Interestingly, in this rather dire series of 'best' 'worst' 'deprived' videos there is one about the 'best' place to move to. Number 1 was Swindon! I nearly choked on my green tea! Best wishes.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 года назад

      @@RJPaul-px6vt Swindon? 🤣 It must be all those tourists wanting to have a go on the Magic Roundabout! Best wishes too.

  • @slapdogpuppyspank8754
    @slapdogpuppyspank8754 Год назад +1

    What about Hugh Town, St Mary's?

  • @qman2261
    @qman2261 Год назад +1

    Pretty obvious that the narrator/writer has never been to any of these, judging by the commentary. It sounds very much like an AI generated load of nonsense - the descriptions of each are logical but seem most likely to have been harvested from Wikipedia entries and are a million miles from the comments that any resident or even any British person would make about their towns.

  • @druidswillow1052
    @druidswillow1052 2 года назад +8

    Who the F**K compiled this list? I think a slightly senile rambler from Cheshire who hasn't set foot outside their own house in 40 years, Altrincham FFS!

  • @paperchain1239
    @paperchain1239 2 года назад

    In no particular order.
    London,especially Highgate.
    Welwyn Garden City.
    Bath
    Cromer
    Dorset, towns incl Beer,Seaton.Bridport.
    West Bay.
    Some parts of Newmarket.
    Cambridge.
    Stckport/Manchester.
    Lyme Regis.
    Hunstanton.

  • @rockerjim8045
    @rockerjim8045 Год назад

    Bridgnorth

  • @stephenav3986
    @stephenav3986 Год назад +1

    Doing a video like is always going to be controversial. I’m sure if there was a poll on this subject the outcome would be vastly different from your video. I think there are other towns in England that should be on your list such as Chester ........

  • @gilliantill1214
    @gilliantill1214 2 года назад +1

    Most of the people in England will never have heard of them unless you live near !!

    • @no-dm6hj
      @no-dm6hj 2 года назад

      Ive heard of pretty much all of them

  • @alexashmead6800
    @alexashmead6800 5 месяцев назад

    Stupid learning canteen got all wrong😅

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay 2 года назад +1

    Like all ''BEST OF' anything, opinions are devided in so many ways, some trivial some personal etc. It may be a distraction for a few minutes but has no real purpose.

  • @williamstroker6805
    @williamstroker6805 2 года назад +4

    What happened to all the beautiful Cotswold towns apart from Stroud and nothing in Devon and Cornwall. I like Stroud and all the surrounding areas, but funny you should have a picture of the most ugly brown building, a former Civil Service place, on the way to Stroud,

  • @AntonioSilva-md4ec
    @AntonioSilva-md4ec 5 месяцев назад

    Milton Keynes highest gdp in UK

  • @suedenym8666
    @suedenym8666 3 месяца назад

    Where on earth did you get the evidence that these are the most loved towns? This is nonsense and not based on any proven fact. Perhaps the town councils are grateful to you for promoting them?

  • @MrBreezeeh
    @MrBreezeeh 2 года назад +2

    Wtf is this list lmfao. Is this a satire channel?

  • @royfearn4345
    @royfearn4345 2 года назад +1

    What a very subjective selection.

  • @johnhealy6676
    @johnhealy6676 2 года назад

    Check once check twice check once again and then you won’t place Maldonado in Yorkshire Plank

  • @ianrogerburton1670
    @ianrogerburton1670 2 года назад

    Eee-by-gum, lad, where´s SCARBOROUGH ???

  • @JoshL109
    @JoshL109 Год назад

    COME ON STROUD

  • @davidappleton5813
    @davidappleton5813 Год назад

    Wildly inaccurate point made about Whitbrook in reference to Stroud!

  • @KenFullman
    @KenFullman 11 месяцев назад +1

    2:20 What the heck are you blithering on about. What has Yorkshire got to do with Maldon. There nowhere near each other.

    • @fmcb269
      @fmcb269 7 месяцев назад

      They've confused it with Malton, midway between Scarborough and York.