10 Most Loved Towns in England
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- What are the most loved towns in England? There is something about the towns in England that makes them famous the world over. Could it be because, in England, there is always a carnival or festival in one place or the other? You probably have to look past the large towns and cities to discover them. That's why we want to look at these 10 most loved towns in England to see why they're loved.
Some of these towns are neatly tucked away, in rolling green hills, on rugged cliffs, near forests, or moorland. Others have beaches and rivers. There’s something about these quintessential towns in England that makes them loved. Follow along and see if you too would love these most loved towns in England.
10. Selby
We start off with Selby a town in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District. With its status as a town council, Selby is 14 miles south of York on the River Ouse. The town with a population of 14,731 is one of the 10 most loved towns in England.
There used to be a large shipbuilding industry in this town which was historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It was also an important port on the Selby Canal that was bringing trades from Leeds. Something to be loved about this town is the market towns and picturesque villages. It’s one of the most loved also because house prices there are lower and people get more for their money.
9. Frome
When Frome was listed among one of the “Best Places to Live in Britain” by a popular ranking, we know it’s going to be one of the most loved towns in the country. Now, this town and civil parish in eastern Somerset is the ninth most loved town in England. Frome is built on uneven high ground on the Mendip Hills, at the eastern end and it centers on the River Frome.
The town about 13 miles south of Bath and the largest in the Mendip District of Somerset is loved for being welcoming, charming, and vibrant. A part of the parliamentary constituency of Somerton and Frome, it has a wealth of history, culture, and natural beauty. People from outside the town love it for its tranquility and antiquity.
8. Maldon
The next of the most loved towns in England is Maldon. The town council also in the ceremonial country of North Yorkshire is another town in the county on this list. Of course, North Yorkshire has a lot of loved towns, and this civil parish on the Blackwater estuary in Essex is just one of them. It is the seat of the Maldon District and the starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.
Known for Maldon Sea Salt being produced in the area, the town with a population of 14,220 is loved for being a good place to retire. You will find a lot of elderly people from whom you can learn about the rich English history and culture
7. Hart
We would love to include Hart here even though it is a local government district. It’s in Hampshire and derived its name from the River Hart with its council based in Fleet. Formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act of 1972, it doesn’t have city status. However, it’s a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley Wintney Rural District.
We consider Hart one of the most loved places in England after it was named the best place to live in Britain by the 2017 Halifax Quality of Life study. It’s indeed one of the richest and least deprived areas in the entire United Kingdom, according to the Indices of Deprivation 2015. The town ranked 326th least deprived out of 326 local authorities in England. That’s why people love Hart.
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I live in Stamford and honestly it is beautiful such lovely people
And didn't even mention Burghley house
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 can't believe seeing Knutsford and Altrincham as we just discovered them very recently. We love both of them, they are really beautiful.
Why wasn't anywhere in Cumbria mentioned like Kendal, Penrith or Kirkby Lonsdale?
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
Love it 👍
Tonbridge,Kent was once a thriving market town,now barbers,coffee shops charity shops and not much more very sad!
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,
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.
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.
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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Essex in North Yorkshire! Maldon is very nice
I replayed that about 5 times🤣🤣🤣
Are we talking about places to go and have 3 days of wild fun or places to live all year round?
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).
I so very deeply want to visit Holmfirth. I'm a long time fan of Last of the Summer Wine.
I thought Chester would be on the list. I don't live there, but i do like to visit.
City
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 .
Is Malden in North Yorkshire, Essex or Surrey?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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
Super
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.
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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!
Well done for using the correct pronunciation for the town 'Frome'
Maybe a bit research is needed, Maldon is in Essex not Yorkshire
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!!
4:20 : Illkey?? Never heard of it. I have heard of Ilkley.
What about Morpeth in Northumberland. It has everything you need plus beautiful countryside all around
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!
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
What about Hugh Town, St Mary's?
Love the West Midlands love me some brommie
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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..
St. Austell, Cornwall or King's Lynn, Norfolk.
I don't agree at all. What is the source data? Olney, Buckinghamshire? Arundel? Oakham?
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.
How’s Brighton?
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.
Where is Saffron Walden, or Rye, Stocksbridge in Hampshire????
Oakham in rutland, the best place to live,
Mate please add Harrogate
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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Forener from Wolverhampton see you soon
It's either that or the Gotham strategy.
Although this is a very interesting video, it has the hallmarks of being written by ChatGPT.
Strange tower of the church they have there in Molden, ...
What about lovely Leamington Spa?
Lovely town. Went last year.
Too near Coventry.
Lots of crime in Leamington.
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Major shipbuilding industry in Selby up til 1974!? I think not.
Selby is a dump. Full of pound shops.
Who on Earth voted for these ? Seems like a competition for obscure towns few in England know about
Bradford didn't make the list ? Shocker!
Ilkley is actually part of Bradford City Council area!
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
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?
Maldon, Essex is not in North Yorkshire, ceremonially or otherwise.
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.
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.
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 ........
Stamford is the only one I like on this list.where is richmond north yorkshire?
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.
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.
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
What's wrong with Scunthorpe, I ask?
Was this the 10 worst or best?
Bury St. Edmunds????
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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.
Bridgnorth
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,
Surprised to see Stroud included. Depressing dump.
Eee-by-gum, lad, where´s SCARBOROUGH ???
You forgot sunny suffolk
Woodbridge
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.
I think these towns were just drawn from a hat...
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.
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!
Wildly inaccurate point made about Whitbrook in reference to Stroud!
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.
Milton Keynes highest gdp in UK
COME ON STROUD
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.
Check once check twice check once again and then you won’t place Maldonado in Yorkshire Plank
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.
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.
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.
What a very subjective selection.
Try Living in America where there are real shity towns everywhere I go in England it seems Charming
Most of the people in England will never have heard of them unless you live near !!
Ive heard of pretty much all of them
Hexham not on here guardian voted it best
Walofs
A shire is not pronounced "sheer"
It is
It definitely is
You are having a laugh mate. No Stratford Upon Avon, no Bath.
Bath is a city, right? The definition of "town" is rather vague in this video, but it does seem to be based on some bureaucratic definition and no cities are included. Stratford is overrun with tourists (maybe not so much during the Covid era), so maybe people there don't love it so much. (On the other hand, I have relatives in Brighton, and once you get away from the seafront, it's a nice place to live, with a lot going on but also some quiet neighborhoods and of course gorgeous countryside. Hey, that makes me think: why no towns in Sussex and Kent or the rest of the South Coast? Are the nicest places all cities and not towns, or on the other end, villages?)
@@elainechubb971 Stratford upon Avon over run with tourist?it's aways being like that its still a nice place though
Wtf is this list lmfao. Is this a satire channel?
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.
Lymm knocks Altrincham, Wilmslow and Knutsford into a cocked hat, agree with you about Whitby and Clitheroe, not visited the other places you mention.
@@Bills-xk5nf Agreed - I'm not saying it's awful, just that it hardly belongs on a list of most-loved towns
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.....
Ludlow 🥰 such a beautiful & historic town, a bugger to park there though 😂
If you believe Maldon is in Yorkshire, you should not be doing these videos.
Whonis doing this voiceover? Is it a bot or just someone who has no idea how to use intonation and pauses when speaking?
Tedious
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." 👎