Top 10 PRETTIEST Towns in HERTFORDSHIRE

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @jayhemmantcricket
    @jayhemmantcricket 11 месяцев назад +19

    Im very happy to have been born in the beautiful country of Hertfordshire, I still have to tell people I come from North London though...

  • @claireseyeviewonredbubble
    @claireseyeviewonredbubble 5 месяцев назад +9

    I was hoping to see Wheathampstead, place of my childhood. I lived in St Albans for a few years so that was lovely seeing it.

  • @earyb1
    @earyb1 8 месяцев назад +11

    I am from Hartford, Connecticut in the U.S. and planning to study abroad at the University of Hertfordshire this autumn. I always found it ironic that the I'm going from Hartford to Hertford. I was watching this video to lean more about the region and it just blew my mind to find out that my home city is actually named after the city that I'm going to be studying in. 🤯

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  8 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, there's often a connection when it comes to UK and US towns and cities with shared place names! It's something I find quite fascinating myself.

    • @Trish-ql9kz
      @Trish-ql9kz 7 месяцев назад

      So you will be based in Hatfield? I studied at this University 20 years ago while living in Stevenage, Herts

    • @Trish-ql9kz
      @Trish-ql9kz 7 месяцев назад

      Royston!! no way 🤨

    • @01tk69
      @01tk69 6 месяцев назад

      This is a small world !!!

  • @gregbeard6057
    @gregbeard6057 11 месяцев назад +14

    Another great video. I grew up and went to school in Bishop's Stortford. I was somewhat surprised that Harpenden wasnt included.

  • @Ajf_24
    @Ajf_24 Месяц назад +1

    Great video, mate! Been living in St Albans for the past 3 years and it is such a gem. Bonus points for the 'blurst of times' reference ;)

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  Месяц назад +2

      Ah cheers! Yeah, you can't beat a bit of classic Simpsons!

  • @christinawatkinsyoutube
    @christinawatkinsyoutube 10 месяцев назад +4

    I feel very proud that my hometown is number one. St Albans is just so wonderful. But this video was really informative S I notice I’ve never been to the other cities, only driven past them, even though they’re so lovely!!

    • @stop-the-greed
      @stop-the-greed 9 месяцев назад

      St Alban's . Where I spent my youth . Nowadays like everywhere . Full of homeless

  • @davidmiller4078
    @davidmiller4078 11 месяцев назад +9

    Yeah interesting neat that you gave Hemel Hemstead a mention well done done

    • @expressoevangelism80
      @expressoevangelism80 6 месяцев назад +1

      How on Earth did he swing that? I was an estate agent there ‘77 & ‘79. It was awful, apart from some little niches along the old high st.

  • @paulinesvisuals
    @paulinesvisuals Год назад +6

    Thanks, I really enjoyed this!

  • @JansViews
    @JansViews 11 месяцев назад +3

    Totally agree with your selection. I moved to WGC from London 20yrs ago and still enjoy how pretty the town centre is.
    I often visit St Albans as it’s only a 15 min drive and also think it is very pretty and worthy of being placed as your No.1. 👏🏽

  • @expressoevangelism80
    @expressoevangelism80 6 месяцев назад +2

    I’m really loving some of these reintroductions to quite a few happy memories. You do find some lovely locations dotted around. Thank you.

  • @allthisway40
    @allthisway40 Год назад +3

    Excellent video, and I (mostly) agree with your list!
    Have you considered covering Buckinghamshire? Plenty of small, pretty towns there.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  Год назад

      Absolutely, Buckinghamshire may well be one of the next counties to feature as I've only got a few towns left to visit there.

  • @expressoevangelism80
    @expressoevangelism80 6 месяцев назад +3

    I can’t believe it! Hemel Hempstead got a mention, but yes that old High St is lovely.

  • @FreedomPhilosophyTV
    @FreedomPhilosophyTV Год назад +6

    My Dad was involved in the development of WGC. It’s pleasant if a little to regimented, like Milton Keynes. St Albans is a good pick for first position.

  • @malcolmhull2335
    @malcolmhull2335 10 месяцев назад +3

    I’ve lived in St Albans for 30 years, so obvs biased, but your right, it is a great place to live

  • @greni7472
    @greni7472 5 месяцев назад

    Enjoyed this video. Nice to see the beautiful towns of Hertfordshire.

  • @taniayager3361
    @taniayager3361 11 месяцев назад

    I used to drive up to St Albans from London to visit my ex-sister-in-law who had a Start Right shoe shop slap bang in the centre of the town. Also had excellent Sunday Lunches there too! Fond memories of that place! Great vid of Hertfordshire and stunning towns with an abundance of history worth taking a visit to.

  • @adrian-ze9cz
    @adrian-ze9cz Год назад +3

    I have been to rickmansworth a million times visiting friends and a king time ago to st albans. Have forwarded this to ricky/st albans friend

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  Год назад

      Ah thanks, I appreciate it! :)

    • @Lei-2011
      @Lei-2011 10 месяцев назад

      My cousin lives in Rickmansworth and whenever I go their house I always see like massive rich looking houses on the streets I swear

  • @fliprim
    @fliprim 10 месяцев назад

    Good choices Alex!

  • @alantunbridge8919
    @alantunbridge8919 3 месяца назад +1

    I live in Cape Town since 1995 where there is a suburb ,Pinelands,modelled upon welwyn Garden City even a road named Welwyn Ave. It is a leafy,pleasant place. I would have been disappointed if Hitchin was not included as I knew it well,having close relatives who lived there & worked there before emigrating.

  • @nevster76
    @nevster76 5 месяцев назад +1

    Having lived bordering Rickmansworth for most of my life then moving to Hitchin, before settling just outside Ampthill, I am pleased to see that they are all deemed by yourself some of the prettiest towns in their county ❤

  • @svong8789
    @svong8789 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great video. No Baldock though - was it too small to make the list?

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  6 месяцев назад

      Thanks! Baldock was very close to making it, but I feel like the high street's a bit too wide and heavy on traffic.

  • @MayYourGodGoWithYou
    @MayYourGodGoWithYou Год назад +3

    Great video and great narration. You taught me a lot about my home county. I had family who lived in Stanborough, Welwyn, and always thought it was a lovely place to live. And I have family still living in other parts around the county.
    However I was thrilled to see my own birthplace as number one, the city where my parents grew up [within walking distance of Hatfield Aerodrome], went to school, married, where my brother and I were born - although dad was head hunted and we grew up in NZ. However my heart has always been in St. Albans [I just wish I could afford to live there but that is well out of my reach unfortunately] and the cathedral is, to me, the most beautiful in the country.
    AVE VERULAMIUM.
    And have you covered Suffolk, I lived in both Clare [my grandparents moved there from St. Albans] and Stowmarket and still fondly remember Sudbury, Bury St. Edmonds, Ipswich, as they were 30 years ago. While Long Melford will be known to many thanks to Lovejoy.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  Год назад +1

      Thanks very much, that's nice to hear! I've been to parts of Suffolk, although I'm a few filming trips short of being able to make a prettiest towns video for it at the moment. But I was pleasantly surprised by Ipswich, and Bury St Edmunds is beautiful, of course.

    • @MayYourGodGoWithYou
      @MayYourGodGoWithYou Год назад

      @@AlexinGreatBritain Lavenham normally wins in that regard and it is beautiful but personally I think there are many far prettier villages and towns to be found.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  Год назад

      @@MayYourGodGoWithYou Perhaps. In any case I'm avoiding villages as there are just too many of them, so I may have to disappoint a few Harry Potter fans in regard to Lavenham!

  • @nascot10
    @nascot10 11 месяцев назад +7

    No Harpenden?

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  11 месяцев назад +1

      I was very close to including Harpenden.

    • @JansViews
      @JansViews 11 месяцев назад +1

      Harpenden would probably make top 15. It’s a nice town, but not quite as pretty as the towns mentioned IMO.

  • @Andrea-ol3uo
    @Andrea-ol3uo 4 месяца назад +1

    Lived in Berko for 4 years. Beautiful, but not a lot to do there except eat and drink out. Which is very enjoyable but as young parents we had to drive all the time for entertainment for the kids, and larger choices of shops. Having said that Berkhamsted is forever in my heart.

    • @Herts1776
      @Herts1776 День назад

      I live in Berkhamsted, 5 years now. It’s got everything, except: McDonalds, KFC, John Lewis. You could live in Brent Cross, or move back to London ( where I’ve thankfully left).

  • @bobmathews9072
    @bobmathews9072 11 месяцев назад +5

    I’m shocked , shocked I tells thee , that my own town of Watford aka “Grotty Watty” didn’t make the list . Actually I’m not , as the High Street’s a craphole , although we do have some of the best parks in the country . The last film in the “cornetto trilogy” (Shaun of The Dead , Hot Fuzz & The Worlds End) was filmed in Letchworth & Welwyn , you’ll have recognised the high street straight away if you’ve seen the film

  • @WwBb-t2v
    @WwBb-t2v 6 месяцев назад

    And st Albans was my home for 23 years , loved living there

  • @peterallam6494
    @peterallam6494 10 месяцев назад +1

    11 02 24, Icknield Way ? Said to be a Pre-Roman route, & others, upgraded during Roman occupation. Topic for another video ?

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  10 месяцев назад

      Could be, I do find Roman roads and Celtic trackways quite fascinating!

    • @peterallam6494
      @peterallam6494 10 месяцев назад

      @@AlexinGreatBritain 11 02 (2), Keep up the good work ! What was your Home Town /Village ? Best Regards.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  10 месяцев назад

      @@peterallam6494 Cheers! I'm from Louth, Lincolnshire. Well technically a tiny village nearby with no shops called North Ormsby.

    • @peterallam6494
      @peterallam6494 10 месяцев назад

      @@AlexinGreatBritain 11 02 (3), My late Parents retired to Sutton on Sea, my Dad & l used to get our haircuts there. My Mum & wife enjoyed shopping there too - Dept' Store, Butchers, Outfitters & other ranges of shops - all pre 'net days. Surrounding countryside captivating too. Happy Days !

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  10 месяцев назад

      @@peterallam6494 Ah nice, it's a great stretch of coast there. I've got fond childhood memories of Mablethorpe.

  • @rogerking7258
    @rogerking7258 11 месяцев назад +13

    How on earth can you include Bishop's Stortford in this list? I grew up there in the fifties and sixties when it was absolutely lovely, but the insidious process of "modernisation" started in the late sixties. Just one example of what they did was to fill in the river and waterfall in the town centre and replace them with a car park. Since then it's been a non-stop process of cramming in more and more multi-storey car parks and unlovely residential buildings; and you should see the cinema; one of the ugliest buildings on the planet. I got out of there in 1980 and have never regretted it.

  • @ShayDrumm
    @ShayDrumm 29 дней назад +1

    Bishop stortford is crazy

  • @Villanellexvibess
    @Villanellexvibess 5 месяцев назад +1

    what about tring the museum there is amazing

  • @NMiller80666
    @NMiller80666 8 месяцев назад +2

    Hertford is the prettiest town off all :). You missed out Folly Island, Hertford.

  • @User58747
    @User58747 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for reminding me that there are still some decent places left in England. Having lived in Reading and Peterborough, I was beginning to loose faith!!!

  • @stevetkocz
    @stevetkocz 5 месяцев назад

    Fantastic walk through of towns near me, amazed to see my home town of Stortford made it 4th lol

  • @davemurphy1
    @davemurphy1 10 месяцев назад +1

    No Tring?

  • @notquiteatory971
    @notquiteatory971 5 месяцев назад +1

    Where’s the mighty cheshunt?

  • @crzxr
    @crzxr 10 месяцев назад

    No Hereford, for those who like to cross their Ts comprehensively?

  • @WangoBango
    @WangoBango 2 месяца назад

    How can you not include the picturesque town of Waltham Cross.

  • @Treskersic
    @Treskersic Год назад +3

    where's ware ? hehe

  • @KingdomofEngland1
    @KingdomofEngland1 4 месяца назад

    no watford?

  • @susangailcortes8006
    @susangailcortes8006 3 месяца назад +1

    I was lucky enough to be born in St.Albans. Shame I was stupid enough to leave, something I wasn be sorry for.

  • @minimaxi802
    @minimaxi802 10 месяцев назад +1

    I thought Bishops Stortford is in Essex near Stanstead airport.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  10 месяцев назад +1

      It's near Stansted, but on the Herts/Essex border.

  • @simonfiveash3810
    @simonfiveash3810 7 месяцев назад +2

    I can't believe you missed out TRING which is nicer than your top 10 ,unbelievable and did you actually visit TRING 🤔

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yep. It's alright but a little too much mock tudor in Tring for my taste. But if it floats your boat, here's the footage from my main channel: ruclips.net/video/DujP6gAEsFc/видео.html

  • @LynnHypno
    @LynnHypno 5 месяцев назад +1

    Tring? Did you not visit Tring?

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  5 месяцев назад

      Of course. Tring had just a little too much mock Tudor architecture going on for my taste.

  • @ptolemyegan8578
    @ptolemyegan8578 8 месяцев назад +1

    Buntingford robbed. Still enjoyed; thanks for the upload.

  • @johnorchard4
    @johnorchard4 11 месяцев назад +1

    James Stewart was not crowned king of Scotland after his stay in Royston, he had been crowned king of Scotland years before!

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  11 месяцев назад

      I know - I was referring to him becoming James I of England in addition to already being the VI of Scotland.

    • @robgriffiths55
      @robgriffiths55 9 месяцев назад

      It's Stuart for God's sake!

    • @johnorchard4
      @johnorchard4 9 месяцев назад

      @@robgriffiths55Good to see someone rooting for their school history lessons. Yes, the normally accepted spelling in recent times has been Stuart, but the reality is that the family name derived from a title one of their forebears had held - and is still held by the Prince of Wales, that being Grand Steward of Scotland. It was not rendered as Stuart very often throughout the manyyears of them being the ruling house in Scotland.

  • @stevej1818
    @stevej1818 10 месяцев назад +2

    I love how you picked loads of towns around the slum town of St Evenage. I was born and raised in this town. Spent years collecting water from the neighbouring town Hitchin. Like Lewis Hamilton I was able to get out and no longer living in poverty.

  • @arl2839
    @arl2839 11 месяцев назад +4

    I could buy Hertford as a pretty town if they hadn't driven a dual carriageway through the middle of it and plonked the world's ugliest multi-storey car park alongside it! What happened to Tring? Also Buntingford?

    • @JansViews
      @JansViews 11 месяцев назад +1

      I agree, although it is still steeped in historical buildings, which have a beauty of their own.
      Over the past 10 years it has lost its charm and now seems to be in limbo as the council continue to screw up its aesthetic.
      There are still some lovely spots but it's sad to see the town centre gobbled up by new builds.

  • @matfresco
    @matfresco 8 месяцев назад

    excellent stuff... my channel is all Hertfordshire based. Drop by some time.

  • @alexgroushko3142
    @alexgroushko3142 4 месяца назад

    So you have never been to Bushey.

  • @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe
    @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe 9 месяцев назад +2

    Whato Alex,
    I see you've left Stevenage and Watford for your ugliest towns in Hertfordshire. Quite right too.

    • @AlexinGreatBritain
      @AlexinGreatBritain  9 месяцев назад +7

      To be honest though, there won't be an ugliest towns series from me. Those types of videos may get a lot of views, but that kind of negativity's not what my channel's about. And there are more important things in life than ad revenue. But to each their own and all that.

  • @Tweek.___
    @Tweek.___ 9 месяцев назад

    cambridge robbed

  • @MrTonyHeath
    @MrTonyHeath Год назад +1

    This would have been a five star job but for the dire voce-over.

    • @paulinesvisuals
      @paulinesvisuals Год назад +18

      That's rude. There was nothing at all wrong with the voice-over.

    • @531c
      @531c 11 месяцев назад +10

      Very rude. A fine voice over, well informed

    • @johncummins2604
      @johncummins2604 11 месяцев назад +7

      It’s good to have a real human voice.

    • @fredbloggs8072
      @fredbloggs8072 11 месяцев назад +7

      I liked it.

    • @rogerking7258
      @rogerking7258 11 месяцев назад

      Me too!@@fredbloggs8072