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 !
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
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,
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.
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.
Is it because the assessment is ten years or more out of date that it makes no sense?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.
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.
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'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.
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 ........
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!!
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..
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 😂
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 !)
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.
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.
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.
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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,
Bland, bland, bland. Should have called it "least offensive towns". Hart ??? - if your dream is to live in an anonymous housing estate with easy access to a motorway and go to work in Basingstoke.
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.
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!
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?
If you have nothing to say about a town except its geographic location, stop wasting time and just read off the list in less than a minute. It's like saying "Please accept this comment as a bit of a critique left by a viewer. There are certainly a lot of viewers of videos and they often like to leave comments. This, in fact, is just such a type of comment. And reading it fills out a video when in fact there is no real information to be conveyed, it is often said. Please know this is true, especially in this case." 👎
Ridiculous. Wilmslow is basically a huge modern suburb of Manchester filled with chain-stores, and anyone who calls it quiet has clearly never been there. It's merely rich and smug. Altrincham is little better, another big suburb. Hart is not a place at all. I agree with Stamford, Knutsford, Ilkley and Stroud though. (I've never been to Selby). What about Halesworth, Dorchester, Clitheroe, Ludlow, Ledbury, Weobley, Whitby?
As someone who knows wilmslow well, I can say that it is rich but (like almost all towns) it has a couple of very small, lower density council housing estates. On the other hand I get how you say it is noisy as there is often heavy traffic and building work.
I spent my childhood hanging around knutsford it's now an over priced infested traffic jam, that's why my sister is getting out to somewhere quiet.....
@@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.
