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,
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
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 !
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 😊
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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
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..
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...
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!!
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.
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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 😂
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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 !)
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 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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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 ........
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.
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,
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?
Altrincham is my hometown. I live down south now but love it when I go back. Absolutely love the place.
I live in Stamford and honestly it is beautiful such lovely people
And didn't even mention Burghley house
I can't believe seeing Knutsford and Altrincham as we just discovered them very recently. We love both of them, they are really beautiful.
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,
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
Tonbridge,Kent was once a thriving market town,now barbers,coffee shops charity shops and not much more very sad!
Shrewsbury in Shropshire and Nantwich in Cheshire.
I lived in Shrewsbury for 14 years. A beautiful place to live.
Totally agree!
@@oaktree5488 I live there and love it.
Used to visit Shrewsbury regularly. There's a lot that's nice about it.
@@oaktree5488 Traffic is horrific in Shrewsbury centre.
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 !
For heavens sake don’t tell people, as this is where we live and we want it kept secret.
Essex in North Yorkshire! Maldon is very nice
I replayed that about 5 times🤣🤣🤣
@@KenFullman don’t worry, it also said that Stroud shares a border with both Wales and Bristol 🤦♂️
Yes, l did note Essex is now in NY
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 😊
Love it 👍
Why wasn't anywhere in Cumbria mentioned like Kendal, Penrith or Kirkby Lonsdale?
This part of the world has enough towns to fill the 100 most liked. But we don’t want it floodedvwith tourists.
Southalabad in Lundonistan, and birmingapur in the Midlands also loved very much
And birminghur😃😃
@@kamranhashmi1575 and Leicestergarh, also bradfud kalan.
@@kamranhashmi1575 rotherharam, Newcaslsar
@@chamkaur1160Bradistan sounds better.
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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.
We're moving there next week!😊
Are we talking about places to go and have 3 days of wild fun or places to live all year round?
I thought Chester would be on the list. I don't live there, but i do like to visit.
City
I so very deeply want to visit Holmfirth. I'm a long time fan of Last of the Summer Wine.
Knuts ford: the cutest name of them all 😍
great job
i would like to ask about BedFord any useful information about this town please ??
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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.
I can tell you its named after a lorry company thats closed now
Driffield East Yorkshire, wonderful town.
Nearly got to go there once when driving from Scarborough to Beverley,but my companion on that trip,who is from Hull,liked it.
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..
How’s Brighton?
I now have "where has ye been scene I saw three" playing in my head.
"Where has tha bin, since I saw thee". It means where have you been since I last saw you.
Darn! Now so have I (at least, Rory Lyons' version of the words is the one I know).
That was my point you have to learn the local English, like in Chop Yat, reet?
What about Morpeth in Northumberland. It has everything you need plus beautiful countryside all around
No Luton? That's a criminal omission IMHO
He has it on most hated list
@@Buildbeautiful Yes I was being sarcastic, don't think Luton would be on anyone's Most Loved Towns list
Luton - Stay Clear - If only there was a way to flush it into the Atlantic .
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.
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.
What a lot of cobblers!
I didn't see Northamptonshire on the list.
@@rjjcms1 Did you mean Northampton? Northamptonshire is a county not a town
No its not cobblers they mend shoes lol
@@nickda1 I did,and I know. Were/are some of the tanneries in other towns within the county?
What about lovely Leamington Spa?
Lovely town. Went last year.
Too near Coventry.
Lots of crime in Leamington.
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
And I bet you never knew that Maldon in Essex is actually in NORTH YORKSHIRE? 2:20
@@KenFullman no didn't know that thanks for the info
@@bowlerwildcatGaming1991And I do hope you DON'T believe that. 😁
@@KenFullman No
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.
We are blessed with the number of Great Towns in this Great Britain 😊
4:20 : Illkey?? Never heard of it. I have heard of Ilkley.
I heart Hart
Is Malden in North Yorkshire, Essex or Surrey?
New Malden and Old Malden are in Surrey,Nr Kingston.
Think someone is confusing Malton and Pickering with Maldon
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
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St. Austell, Cornwall or King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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..
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...
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.
Well done for using the correct pronunciation for the town 'Frome'
Strange tower of the church they have there in Molden, ...
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!!
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Maldon in Yorkshire? Really? Thought that was in Essex. Maybe he meant Malton!!!!
The photos were Maldon and he did mention the the River Blackwater
By "Hart", do you mean the entire district, or a specific town there?
There’s no such town called Hart in England, so it’s the district. That entry makes no sense whatsoever
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.
Ephemeral!
BEACONSFIELD in Buckinghamshire beautiful rich SHOPS NOT BOARDED UP
Maybe a bit research is needed, Maldon is in Essex not Yorkshire
Oakham in rutland, the best place to live,
Where is Saffron Walden, or Rye, Stocksbridge in Hampshire????
Saffron Walden ,,,,Essex,,,,Rye ,,,,,,East Sussex ,,,,Stockbridge,,,,Hampshire.
@coling7819 jeez, catch up will you, this was a YEAR ago... 😄😀
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!
I don't agree at all. What is the source data? Olney, Buckinghamshire? Arundel? Oakham?
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Bradford didn't make the list ? Shocker!
Ilkley is actually part of Bradford City Council area!
Mate please add Harrogate
Not for long a mosque on the way….down hill now
No, don’t tell people, keep it secret
@@markswales762true
Who on Earth voted for these ? Seems like a competition for obscure towns few in England know about
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
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It's either that or the Gotham strategy.
Yeah Stroud made number 2
Stamford is the only one I like on this list.where is richmond north yorkshire?
Cost of living low in Wilmslow?? Yeah right.
Yes I am sceptical too!
I bet the Cheshire fake tan set have ruined that one.
Wilmslow is a rich suburb of Manchester. Like a Northern Essex. Bloody awful place.
Major shipbuilding industry in Selby up til 1974!? I think not.
Selby is a dump. Full of pound shops.
Bury St. Edmunds????
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Maldon is both in Yorkshire and Essex according to this bozo.
yeah, hilarious!
This is what happens when algorithms create their own channel. Artificial intelligence makes artificial places.
Malton-Maldon it's all the same to voice recognition software.
That had me confused.
Can I sniff your mandarins Craig?
All OK if you have been left a sizeable inheritance. For the average person, no way.
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
Maldon, Essex is not in North Yorkshire, ceremonially or otherwise.
No towns between Gloucestershire and Yorkshire then?! The whole of Central England ignored 🤣
Understandably, they were concentrating on Yorkshire but felt it necessary to list some other places too.
I live in Worcestershire, we have the Cotswolds on our doorsteps, I know they tend to be villages but they have towns also
I can't believe St. Helens isn't on the list
From the amount of loved towns in the uk i wouldn't be suprised im sure its hard to place towns in a rank
Although this is a very interesting video, it has the hallmarks of being written by ChatGPT.
You forgot HARROGATE North Yorkshire
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.
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.
You forgot sunny suffolk
Woodbridge
What's wrong with Scunthorpe, I ask?
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!
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.
I think the narrator has somehow taken the research for 'Malton' an actual place in North Yorkshire, and got it all mixed up.
North Cheshire is one of the wealthiest areas in the UK. Most well known is Alderley Edge.
Maldon is in Essex. Not Yorkshire.
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.
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.
I've just messaged my daughter to see how she says it, she has been living in stonehouse for the last 5 years.
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.
@@KasabianFan44It's not mad or weirdly patriotic to let someone know how to correctly pronounce a town name.
@@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.
Was this the 10 worst or best?
Where does Middlesex feature?
It doesn't, because Middlesex is a COUNTY, not a town...!!!
and indeed isn't even that now - just part of London
@@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.
Unfortunately,most of it's long been gobbled up by the urbanisation of London's ever-expanding sprawl.
@@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.
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.
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
I think these towns were just drawn from a hat...
Surprised to see Stroud included. Depressing dump.
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 !)
I'd rather live in Letchworth Garden City than all of this list, yes it has City its name but really is a town
Welwyn Garden City is not bad.Good countryside around.
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.
Your post is both funny and sad. I gather the Cotswolds have suffered greatly from the weekend-home or second-home folks.
@@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. 💙
@@RJPaul-px6vt That's sad,and one of the things that's gone wrong in our country.
@@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.
@@RJPaul-px6vt Swindon? 🤣 It must be all those tourists wanting to have a go on the Magic Roundabout! Best wishes too.
What about Hugh Town, St Mary's?
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.
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!
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.
Bridgnorth
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 ........
Most of the people in England will never have heard of them unless you live near !!
Ive heard of pretty much all of them
Stupid learning canteen got all wrong😅
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.
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,
Milton Keynes highest gdp in UK
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?
Wtf is this list lmfao. Is this a satire channel?
What a very subjective selection.
Check once check twice check once again and then you won’t place Maldonado in Yorkshire Plank
Eee-by-gum, lad, where´s SCARBOROUGH ???
COME ON STROUD
Wildly inaccurate point made about Whitbrook in reference to Stroud!
2:20 What the heck are you blithering on about. What has Yorkshire got to do with Maldon. There nowhere near each other.
They've confused it with Malton, midway between Scarborough and York.