The 8 most expensive towns in The Cotswolds, UK
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Alright welcome back to Turdtowns the channel which covers the good and the bad places of the Uk. Today is a video which could be seen as a bit of both. We visited the most expensive towns in The Cotswolds. This was based on data from Rightmove for the last year. We also discounted anywhere with a population less than 1000. We had to draw the line somewhere! The Cotswolds is an area of outstanding natural beauty in the West of the UK. It is very touristy and posh.
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Went to college in Cirencester and spent a lot of time around people who live in the places mentioned on the list. One lad mentioned his father owning 5 BMWs and impromptu weekend trips to Venice like they were the most normal things in the world.
I’d love to know how many of these people in these towns are self made.
@@TurdtownsI'll explain, after Mater&Pater pay to give you public school contacts, they use their contacts to get you a well paying job exploiting the plebs.
You then claim you worked hard to get where you are.
It's not what you know, but who you know.
@@Turdtowns Not many - I've lived near Campden for 37 years
@@Turdtowns it’s 7 mate … 7
@@Turdtowns I live in Chipping Campden and I would say most people here are self-made.
'i doubt they've ever had to go two's on a cigarette' absolutely killed me. Love your humour!
Thanks Vinny means a lot!
Yeah that was funny 😂
Instead of 'Posh' Towns,,,,,you could have called it 'Polished Turd Towns' ;)
Spot on. Tetbury is full of inbreads
Or, "you can't polish a turdtown" but you can throw glitter on it category .......
"Like the new King himself, I'm all ears"
Lines like this are what make this one of the most watchable channels on YT!
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!
I left Burford school in 1975; went away to university; and didn't visit for some years. The biggest change, which ruined it for me, is the amount of traffic. It's gone from moderately busy to horrendous!
The house in your thumbnail used to be owned by my grandparents - I was very lucky to have spent childhood Christmases in such a gorgeous setting. They bought it before the M4 was constructed & back then the Cotswolds was mud & farmers rather than Farrow & Ball.
You mentioned Broadway. 30 years ago the high street had shops that regular people might use such as banks,butchers,bakeries and a post office .Now it is full of chi-chi boutiquey, art galleries and places selling rich, country ,lifestyle stuff.
Absolutely brilliant ! your shows just get better and better,I live in a small Cotswold town called Nailsworth and work in Cirencester as a delivery driver, so all these towns are familiar to me.
Keep up the good work and the banter.😊
I remember visiting Nailsworth and my car struggling to get up the hills.
Used to live there for a decade or so!
Ha Nailsworth is a Turd town no doubt in that son.
How in the world did you ever afford to live there on a delivery driver wage?
@@samthemadman5000Ever heard of Forest Green?
Big up, my man, the richest resident in Blockley, barrelling through on his tractor.
Safe in the knowledge he owns all of the 347 surrounding acres.👍
Hahaha yup he looked like he didn’t give a single turd 😂
Good one 'squire. A complete flip on your norm, yet retained your sarcasm, satire and humour.
With facts and reality included, for free.
This pointless human approves, for what it is worth.
Thank you.
An excellent summation from someone who has lived in the Cotswolds for 37 years. The house prices are skewed by the ex council houses and new build estates which, yes, even the Cotswolds has. That's the only reason Burford is number one.
Burford is the town Clarkson visited in an old top gear episode where he tested the F150 pickup truck. Because the towns close to his house.
Yeah he and Harry Metcalfe from Harry's Garage live just outside of Burford
“Trained to swoop and attack poor people as they enter” fucking gold 😂😂
Blockley? Unspoiled? That cafe and shop used to be a Cotswold stone toilet block.
All around, one can see where people cashed in and put mini housing estates on their front gardens! And... oh, BOY, you should've been there in the 60s and 70s! 4 pubs. 2 banks open full time. A post office/general store plus two other large convenience stores. 2 butchers, a hardware store, toy/sweet shop with newsagent and a chemist... a couple of cobblers, 2 independent greengrocers and a couple of bakeries.
Furthermore, two hairdressers and a barber!
The place was alive!
These days, it's a fossilised themepark filled with god knows who doing who knows what but only at the weekends.
Such a lack of facilities that on that score, it's qualify as a TurdTown.
Yea I’m guessing it was the area by the church? It’s still expensive though so it counts for this list.
@@Turdtowns (I know, I just wanted to have a rant about what was a wonderful place to live)
@@jpofgwynedd3878the place itself looks incredible but it’s cut off with no infrastructure. I can see how it would have been a 10/10 back in the dya
Interesting to look at the financial history of most houses currently for sale in the Cotswolds. Whatever you bought in the late 90's for 200K will sell for close to 1M today.
There's a house for sale in Blockley on one of the mini housing estates you refer to, with a common garden, swimming pool and tennis court (1K per month for maintenance?). I can't escape the feeling the whole village is sh*g hotel for the rich, just like you suggest.
And let's not forget barn conversions. Plaster your pig stable, fit a few windows, kitchen and bathroom, and call it a medieval house.
@@jacquesmertens3369 it’s all essentially just dumb luck. I don’t know how anyone can think they are above other people when they just got lucky.
"even the local gym is called James" took a detour around the village before getting to me but man that was a good one LOL
I only came across this channel the other day but what a gem! Your quirky comments fit perfectly and has me in stitches. We’ll done on a great channel 👍
Great work man it’s nice to see the other end of the spectrum. Especially because most of the places people would purposefully visit are these types of beautiful towns and villages which abound South West and South East England
Excellent and humorous as always! Looking to visit Worcester in a few months. May get out and visit a few of these spots. 🙂
Loving the video's ❤ you really make us laugh. Thank you!
Nice, thanks for dropping it. Must be nice to go somewhere in summer where the houses are worth £4m.
These are excellent...... more please.....!!
A wild Slapnuts appears ❤ Good to see you branching out and enjoying all the content.
It's a great place to bring up kids: safe and good schools. btw did you notice all the London car reg plates? They've been flooding down here since everyone started working from home. Another reason why house prices have rocketed.
How do you know they’re London car plates?
@@Turdtowns L reg
@@Turdtowns If the number plate begins with L
@@user-cq3ez6fn6f learned something today. Also learned that my car has a London plate although I’m not from there!
Yes, the nicer parts of the West Oxfordshire areas are being bought up due to the decent (relatively speaking) rail link to London from Charlbury and Kingham.
A jolly good show, old chum!
Loved this video and your so finny 😂. Just subscribed thanks
Really informative,brilliant.
I love the sense of humor !
Loving these towns, yellow brick always did look nice 👍
Your narration is actually funny and very witty 👏🏻 most channels are cringe hah.
Also I love Stow because the coffee shops there are awesome
“Gym called James!” Proper funny!
Bourton on the Water is the crack den of the Cotswolds don't you know!!
Well done, nice list! I agree with your rankings. BTW - I live in one of these towns... Tetbury.
Man, I love those places. My heart's desire.
Classic affluent English market towns. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of rolling fields which always seem to have FA in them. (The odd cow perhaps)
Hilarious commentary in this episode, i needed a good laugh thank you, where i live is a small hamlet in Cornwall and seeing this busy towns , makes me happy to be here.
Don't care how posh the houses are, they are welcome to there polished turd towns.
Very good episode! Shame Banbury didn't quite make it (it does skirt the Cotswolds)..
I drove through nearly all of these towns on my way to Glastonbury festival (Shepton Mallet is a turd) last month to avoid the M5. I've actually been to all the places mentioned as a "tourist". A couple of towns you didn't mention were Shipston on Stour & Winchcombe, they seemed pretty posh when I visited.
Yup Shepton ain’t great I have to go there often
That situation in Burford with the parking reminds me of Stockbridge in Hampshire... remember to do a posh towns for Hants, there's definitely enough content for both posh and turd...
We always park in Burford garden centre and walk down.
You, my friend, are an absolute legend with your one liners and quips! Keep up the good work, don't ever let Turdtowns die.
If you ever do Poshtowns in Devon, I could probably give you number 1 already...
Salcombe?
@Turdtowns Sidmouth I'd suggest but Salcombe will be up there
Plzzz
I don't remember how i found your youtube channel but i love watching this stuff, i've watched nearly all your videos now, bro it's just what i needed and actual real human behing a camera.
We always have one of the Oxfordshire cross country races at Cirencester and, needless to say, it’s beautiful
This exercise was great fun and brought back memories of my own childhood in the not unposh part of the Cotwolds. I compiled a list first as best guess; then checked against yours. This is what I thought. Hon mention Broadway 1. Chipping Campden, 2. Burford; 3. Winchcombe; 4. Tetbury; 5. Fairford; 6. Nailsworth; 7. Wotton under Edge; 8. Lechlade. A few comments. I once knew somebody who rented a flat in Burford. It was tiny. Most of the houses are too small for habitation. You have to be a slow moving traffic lover to live in these places! The crime rate in Blockley looks to be high
Came for the Regional inequality, stayed for the overly inflated house prices. 😅
I really enjoy these PoshTowns segments. I'm not from the UK. Growing up I used to think all of it looked like these places.
I grew up in a village next to Broadway and went to school in Chipping Campden. In the late 90’s/early 2000’s Moreton in Marsh was considered the rough town in the area 🤣
Also, Stow on the Wold was Edgar Wright’s first choice to film Hot Fuzz but they council declined because they didn’t want the final shoot out scene to be filmed in the town square
I also went to chipping campden school(1 year ago) and grew up in a town next to broadway. I can assure you Moreton in Marsh is still considered to be the rough town in the area ... some things never change haha!
@@OGPodcastClipsOh really? In what sense is it considered rough?
As a local, I can tell you that these house prices have all happened within the last decade or so, its depressing as it means I have no way to stay close to my home if I want my own house.
If you want to eat in Stow there is a lovely small cafe called The Old Bakery. Highly recommend the homemade cream tea and their exceptional rich hot chocolate made with chocolate and cream! Always a favourite to swing by when in the area 😁
Burford is only making the top of the list in terms of average price is because of London influence. Broadway for me anytime😅
Broadway should have been number 8 really. I find the two places pretty similar?
Went to every single one of these places as a kid.....when going to places by car on a Sunday was special (in the 70's- early 80's)
I’ve visited the Cotswolds many times. There’s some lovely places and the people might not be that welcoming in some of the locations but the scenery is great!
I cannot wait till I get home just to watch this! 😆
Please review salisbury - could be in this collection. Scratch the surface and ...
Asking for the William and going to the local James threw me 🤣🤣🤣
I live in Painswick (although a I do rent a tiny little flat) but I’m surprised Painswick didn’t get a mention. It’s always rammed with tourists and impossible to find a place to park. Despite this, it is a very attractive area tow with over 1500 residents and loads of expensive gaffs.
Painswick is very expensive too. Could have made the list at the expense of Tetbury. Tetbury is the only exception I made because I didn’t want the list to be a bunch of places that all look the same.
@@Turdtowns this is true, once you’ve seen a couple… they all kind of look similar. Keep up the good work. I love your videos. Herefordshire would be easy pickings for you with places like Leominster and Bromyard 😉
@@tommyball1863I wa supposed to do Herefordshire. I’m just struggling to come up with more than three places. I don’t think it would make a very good video.
@@Turdtowns yeah, Herefordshire could be a struggle but my suggestions would be; Ross on Wye, Bromyard (which is really on its arse), Ledbury, Leominster and even Hereford itself, the latter does have some sketchy areas.
I lived nearby there in the tiny village of Sheepscombe (population only ~300) for 3 years in the 1970s.
He probably should have pointed out that even in the era when Rome ruled Britain, the Cotwolds were extremely posh.
There were more large Roman villas in the Cotswolds than anywhere else in the UK.
Cirencester was the second most important Roman city, behind only London.
Bourton on the water smells a bit better than venice
Glad to see you calling out the car parks that often blight the centre of beautiful market towns. Surely people can park on the edge and walk for five minutes instead.
Have you covered plymouth? I went recently, never been, and thought as it appears to be a major landmark was shocked to be greeted with derelict buildings that once said "employment agency", then few chain shops in between empty "to let" shop spaces. whole place looks and feels unaccommodating and couldnt be there more than 1 hour before I have to leave, a true dump!
What an eye opener. What's become apparent in the last few years during the cost of living crisis, is there is an opposite end to the scale and there seems to be an abundance of extremely wealthy people about.
How do so many people make such vast amounts of money.
My opinion is that if someone is making millions, then they are over charging for their service and ripping people off.
A lot of these people probably had money in the family. And imagine your family owning multiple houses in these towns. You would be laughing all the way to the bank without actually doing much do it.
@Turdtowns that's a lot of wealthy families.
I live in the Midlands and for every 10 poor or average family just making ends meat, there seems to be at least 1 extremely wealthy person, driving around in their super car and extending their 1 million home. I've never seen so many wealthy people.
I love Burford. Only been here once, but it’s got about 6 or 8 pubs. A curry house and decent shops. Plus it’s pretty as fuck. Each to their own I guess 😅
Beautiful, tiny houses which you can actually live in if you happen to be dwarf-sized.
Or don’t mind bashing your head every morning
I think you meant 'vertically challenged'
The Bird Centre at Moreton in Marsh is excellent should anyone be passing by !
T, can you please do a feature on North Wales ?
Places like Rhyl, Llandudno, Flint, Pwllheli, Caernarfon .... these places are dog rough.
The Cotswolds are much prettier than North Wales.
@@valeriedavidson2785The sky is blue and, water is wet.
First half of my honeymoon was in Burford. Second half was in Wapping. Both very nice. 😀
Live on the Gloucestershire/Warwick shire border so know all these towns except Tetbury very well as most are in the North Cotswolds.
Few observations
Stow-On-The-Wold - has huge traffic issues and is an absolute nightmare to drive through as it has major roads criss crossing through it. Locals use back roads to avoid this, would never live there.
Moreton-In-Marsh - is actually a lovely place and more attractive than the video portrays. The market on Tuesdays is NOT worth a visit and is NOT large at all.
Blockley - is a strange place. A village of second homes mainly it lacks any community atmosphere whenever I’ve visited and leaves me cold, Ilmington a Cotswold village in Warwickshire is far prettier and charming.
Chipping Campden - Stunning town, my friend lives on the high street and The Volunteer Curry House there does delicious Indian food and the staff are great.
Broadway should not be an honourable mention but should be on your list!! It’s beautiful especially the top half of the high street, it’s much nicer than Burford, which although has a lovely high street is constantly jammed up with traffic.
Bourton On The Water - Sorry just too many tourists make it a place I could never live.
I love your vids
Please do TurdTowns in Cheshire.
the video would be 3 days long
Nine out of ten of these places are in Gloucestershire although you always get other counties mentioned. A beautiful area.
Yep, and then you get to Gloucester itself....
@@ThatGuyRBY How is that relevant?
Gloucester is not in the Cotswolds. I live in Cheltenham and NEVER go to Gloucester. Some villages in the Cotswolds are 25 miles from Gloucester.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Interesting comment. I bet you're devastated the county is called Gloucestershire and not Cheltenhamshire.....and for the record Cheltenham is far rougher than Gloucester! Hesters Way....no thanks!!
@@jimmymac8993 Don't be stupid. All towns have poorer areas. Even Bath. Get real!!
@@ThatGuyRBY Look at the property prices in Gloucester and then look in Cheltenham. There is a vast difference. I think that answers your silly comment.
Excellent script this episode.
Thanks. Not easy making fun of people who have everything 😂😂
I live in Bulgaria and you could buy pretty much the whole village for the average cost of one house in Burford.
I grew up in Cirencester, the worst thing about it was the RAG students. Spending daddy's money and driving around in old land rovers with RAG stickers on the back. Generally be rude and obnoxious.
RAG?
@@Turdtowns royal agricultural college. I believe it's an university now.
What about the fact there’s hardly anywhere to park?
Im in the south of the cotswolds and i can confirm most of the houses in the village high street are owned by people from London now.Anyone born or brought up here has to live in an ex council estate or an ex MOD house.
I think everyone wishes Londoners would fuck off back to London.
Ayy? Chippenham is classed as Cotswolds - news to me, was born there, and have spent collectively 10 plus years there. Damn, all that time and I could have used "I live in the Cotswolds as a chat up line"
Surprised you missed out Broadway. I work in Cirencester. There are some rough-arse parts I can tell you. Some houses have outdoor swimming pools and only one butler!
lol yeah I’ve lived in Cirencester my whole life and am just a middle class guy in a generic semi detached. But the most rough parts of ciren are normal for most of the UK.
May you please do some videos on surrey
im from witney which is literally just outside the cotswolds (oxfordshire) and I love the cotswolds unfortunately I dont tlive there anymore
Just spent a few days in the Cotswolds. Love it there. However the week before we were in Wales. You have to visit Port Talbot, utter toilet. Or Barmouth the dullest seaside town, even worse than Weston Super Meh. Oh and the Gypsys Horse people in Stow, I did not get the impression from locals that anybody welcomes them, all the pubs and shops put up shutters and flee.
Very well written, I really enjoyed some of the dry satire and take it the maker isn't a Tory fan, lol.
Neutral all parties are bad on this channel 😂
@@Turdtowns likewise, same here!
Would be interesting to see a video on the Turd towns of Surrey, stereotypically being a posher county
Me too. I expect most of them are gated communities private roads etc
@@Turdtowns Was just exploring on Google Maps the absolute size of The Manor in Weybridge as a gated community
You should request people make a pot of tea and cucumber sandwiches (no crusts) before watching this episode.
Never heard of some of these towns and probably will never go there either. Interesting though.
The Cotswolds are a prime example of what happens when you don't ruin the landscape with poor housing quality housing, introduce incompatible cultures and value it's historic British heritage. Nice things can exist if you're willing to look after them.
I have to admit all the new build estates looked great. A lot of thought went into the designs.
@@Turdtowns I agree, it's because we have rules on what's acceptable to fit in with the existing landscape. Plus good craftsmanship!
The buildings are certainly pretty but they appear to be choked with cars instead unfortunately, kinda takes away from it a bit
@@Nukeguy909 It's not too bad, the majority of people who come to the towns do a lot of walking anyways. Tourists mainly come by coach from London and they can only park in certain areas.
Are you joking? There are many new houses going up...and some are within some of these listed in this video.
i want trurdtowns back they are hilarious
Mummy buy tetbury for me ive been awful good at St John's Wood's American School of London
Ahhh The Cotswolds. Where a children's home in the center of the lakes was closed due to ill treated and abused children. The security guard told me they found hidden letters that were intended for their parents back home documenting the abuse they suffered but obviously those letters were stashed away. Action for children and The Bruderhorf community were the ones that ran it most time. Just to let you know 😊
That is nothing to do with the beauty of the area.
@@valeriedavidson2785 No but it is most deceitful to portray somewhere to be so beautiful, outstanding and community driven with such dark pasts almost on their doorsteps.. I prefer to let people know my personal dealings with these areas as this is social media where we're allowed to say these things. Not like people don't have the right to know either... Do your research i'm not lying. :)
@@letteringtypes You would probably be able to find a dark past in most places in Britain. You have to leave that behind and as I said, it is nothing to do with the beauty of the area.
People have a right to know. These things shouldn't be shunned and ignored until forgotten. I'm not denying it's a beautiful place just spreading some truths before it's shoved under the rug like so many other child abusive and pedophile acts. @@valeriedavidson2785
Yes it is , their farts obviously do stink @@valeriedavidson2785
I spend a fair bit of time out Tetbury, beautiful gaff where my parents retired too👌🏻Decent shout out for the Gumstool Hill as well, that is one steep fucker!
Class episode and quite a turn up from the case study on Welsh valley shitholes😂🤦🏻
Thanks. Punching up is definitely more difficult. See how the views go.
I cant believe you missed chipping norton!
Just for the record Bourton is a village. And we use goalpost and not the bridges for goals. come up and see us on the 28th Aug.
I think I would have put Chipping Campden above Burford. Oxfordshire is more expensive than Gloucestershire because it's closer to London.
Burford is right on the county line and nearly ALL of these beautiful places are in Gloucestershire.
But nearly all the Cotswold villages are in Gloucestershire. Tetbury is very expensive and not far from the M4 - ( Prince Charles home). There is only a very small part of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire. I live in nearby Cheltenham and know all of them.
Everyone likes the smell of their own brewed fart! XD
Keep up the good content, hope you dont loose any more drones!
Thanks I hope not got a big trip planned next month
@@Turdtowns
Best of luck! Come see Northumberland one time, Plenty o turd to be found!
@@lawrencelimburger9160there’s a very good chance of that. I could do Cumbria and Northumberland on the same trip. Feel free to email me any highlights! Be very helpful and I shall be greatful.
These places always remind me of the lyrics of Pink Floyd's Dogs.
Too many carrot crunchers!😂
😂
I thought that was Somerset 😂
How do you explain Barrow-in-Furness then?
Funny stuff indeed!
So glad my Cotswolds town didn't make the mix, good old Chippy (Chipping Norton) - yep, that famed town of "The Chipping Norton Set", except nobody rich actually lives _in_ the town, they all live in the countryside around it.
A little Labour town in a sea of Tory blue, down to earth, a little bit grubby around the edges, but as real as it gets.
Still a working town ... just about.
Sadly, time is taking its toll on the town - it's becoming more gentrified, slowly but surely.
Still not posh - god help us if it does become that - but it looks like it may go that way.
Once the cheapest of towns in the Cotswolds to buy a house, right on the very edge - but lots of development is starting to ruin it.
Such is life.
I wanna visit Bourton-on-the-water. It’s supposed to have beautiful scenery
I can’t believe Tetbury made this list and I can’t believe Burford topped it.
Cars have killed all these places. No point in living in a film set when the ground floor is hidden by shiny German automotive products.
True
I'm surprised Bibury didn't make the list but I guess the population wasn't high enough
Yea population. It also had over one million average. Not sure why I can’t stand the place. Was forced to go there all the time as a kid. All I remember is one pub and some vicious peacocks 😂
Take a trip to Pembroke Dock you'll love it here 😂😂
😂😂 The best part of Pembroke Dock is the bloody Irish ferry leaving the dump.
@@The58stupot I know 😆
The crazy thing is, if you look up the index of multiple depravation, a lot of these places are pretty much average, especially the cotswolds constituancy itself. The neighboring constituancy of Tewkesbury is actually less deprived, despite Tewkesbury itself being a bit of a dive. I guess all the Cotswold dwellers spend all their money on housing so they can't afford anything else...
If you research your birth town, you'll find most places in the UK looked like this. Most these towns aren't even that old - sure some buildings may be original - yet many buildings will be recreations of architectural eras. Posh = old money/established families.
The majority of the cotswolds is expensive. Before watching this, in the list will be bourton on the water, stow on the wold, chipping Camden, Broadway, Cirencester, Malmesbury to name but a few!