Amusingly the filmmakers included a beautiful picture of Leeds Castle in the Leeds section. The problem with this is that Leeds Castle is 300 miles away from Leeds in Kent!! 😉
This may come as a huge shock, but not everyone commutes to London to work. Peasants, like me, have menial jobs in servitude in other, poorer regions of the country. Joking aside, this is a video promoting areas within commuting distance of Londim. England is a fabulously diverse, tiny little bomb of a country. I’m 68 and live in Lancashire, actually near Wigan. The countryside is so spectacular I have my own UA-cam channel dedicated to it. I have spent my life climbing, hiking, camping in our lovely country in all seasons. Actually, London and the south east is the area that holds the least attention. What do I know. I’m a mere northerner.
@@primalengland London holds the least attention?? Wtf? To who? Maybe to you but you are in the minority. The UK is centred around London and the whole world knows about London and not the wee town you hail from. You sound bitter and jealous. Probably because you can't afford to live in London. Get over it. 😎
Salisbury not only has the cathedral, with its famous spire and the Magna Carta, but it also stands on the Hampshire Avon (with its great angling). It's situated between Salisbury Plain , Cranborne Chase and the New Forest, and is pretty close to Bournemouth and Poole (Sandbanks) for the seaside. My dad went to Bishop's Wordsworth School there, and was taught by William Golding (Lord of the Flies). We like to think that he and his fellow pupils were the inspiration...😂
The mention of Leeds as a former mill town refers to it previously being a major centre of textile mills before China became the world's preeminent textile producer!
Of all the towns and cities on this somewhat idiosyncratic list, Leeds stands out as the one which has most obviously recreated itself as a vibrant, young-minded, chic place after 150 years of being associated with the famous "dark satanic mills" and the associated squalor and poverty. Well done Leeds!
I'm a Canadian who has visited the UK over a dozen times and love the UK but mostly the smaller villages, especially the market towns. London is amazing simply for the diversity and history but...a city is a city...and I'm a country girl. In Bristol the Clifton Suspension Bridge (@15:09) is very historic and a marvel of engineering, built in the 1800's. Brighton is cool but touristy. For cities, I enjoy York and Warwick. For the country, Devon, Cornwall and Yorkshire.
Haha I made a comment about how is places in Cornwall or Devon not on the list, and I find your comment, I've lived in London a nice Borough all my life but we'd go to Cornwall or Wales each year n Devon. You have great taste.
Salisbury well deserves its premier place in this list. Of all the British cities I have seen, Salisbury has the fewest signs of urban decay. It is a beautiful place to visit and no doubt to live in. The Cathedral Close alone would rank it highly in any desirable place to live
Manchester’s town hall is famous for its decor - lots of bees, to indicate hard workers. Salford Quays is the new TV town. The quays have gigantic fish in them that are a bit scary as you can’t really see them but the water moves …
I’m from Stroud and I can confirm it’s a thriving arts town with a very bohemian culture, not near London though, it’s in Gloucestershire in the West Country and whilst it does have good connections to London, it’s connection to Bristol is far more prevalent
I lived in Bristol for over 10 years and absolutely loved it, but I moved out to the Cotswolds to buy my first home because, ridiculously, it's much cheaper here!
Omg, wow, I am so happy to see my town bury st Edmunds In there 😊. The first picture showed st Edmunds Church. Right next to that was my 0rimary school. High quality of life and an Abbey that has been opened to the public for over 1000 years, really recommend visiting, the green building is actually an exclusive hotel in the town centre
The plants growing up the buildings are either Virginia Creeper or Ivy. In both cases the climb by themselves and need no help (other than savage pruning every few years to keep the windows clear and to stop the tendrils going under roof tiles or guttering)
Brighton - famously an actor’s commuter town as the last train from London is well after the theatre’s final curtain. He didn’t mention Brighton Pavilion, The Prince Regent’s (George IV) seaside retreat - a mix of Chinese and Indian decor. Fabulously weird place. Queen Victoria didn’t like it and sold it to the local council but not before removing some of the fireplaces and other items, now to be found in Buckingham Palace. Great shopping in The Lanes, although many of the antique and craft shops closed down because of covid. Great clubs. University. Large Beach. Pier. Very colourful town.
Instead of building the i360 the remains of the West Pier should have been rebuilt or a new one built, I can just remember it when it was still mostly intact although closed, by squeezing through the locked gates one could explore it, carefully as some of the timbers were a bit rotten, hoping not to get caught and a clip around the ear for being a naughty kid. It was sad to see it slowly disappear with each gale and the couple of arson attacks. Brighton is a great town, now a city.
If you’re ever over here, go to the oldest and most intact medieval street in the UK, ‘The Shambles’ in York. Also visit Chester, an old Roman walled City whose walls still exist. The Cotswolds are a must visit as it represents a quintessentially English village. The Malvern Hills, Shropshire; home of the first iron bridge in the now appropriately named Ironbridge, still standing today, named because of its influence in the start of the industrial revolution, thanks to Abraham Darby, which then revolutionised the whole world.
I have In my time lived in Windsor,Ascot, Wokingham, Guildford, I now live in The Cotswolds and a bus ride from both Bath and Salisbury, I get the best of both worlds.
Don't forget that all English town names have a meaning (long, long before those same names were transported across the pond). "Bury" is Anglo Saxon, so that puts the origin of this name you queried, to about 6 or 7 hundred years after Christ. "Bury" means "a kind of fortified main centre". So today you can visit "Canterbury" - look on-line and you'll probably find also what "Canter" meant in that era. Then put the two together. This is the formula for ALL British towns (whether or not they subsequently were shipped out to North America).
Leeds, a Mill Town means that it used to have a huge amount of woollen Mills in it. Market towns were the main towns in an area where throughout history animals and produce were taken for sale at specific day in a month. I used to live in Wokingham and yes it's a great place to live.
East of the Pennine hills (where Leeds is) tends to be wool and flax mills, west of the hills is cotton, due to the higher rainfall on that side. Made better conditions for cotton spinning and weaving.
The official top 5 are as follows . 1. Harrogate, North Yorkshire. 2. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 3. Chester, Cheshire. 4. York, North Yorkshire. 5. Truro, Cornwall. How none are on that list is shocking, that is the definative top 5 best places to live in England.
St Edmundsbury used to be a non-metropolitan government district until 2019 when it was abolished. It included the town of Bury St Edmunds. The cathedral in Bury St Edmunds is, however, called St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
@@belindamay8063 I have had the pleasure of visiting Bury St Edmunds and its cathedral. I had never heard of the place "St Edmundsbury" either. I suspect some of these surveys were analysed by local government districts, many of which have unfamiliar (made-up) names as compared with more well-known towns. I don't think I had ever heard of Hart either but it would seem to not be far from where I live! Our neighbouring borough is Rushmoor but the centres of population are the well known towns of Aldershot and Farnborough.
Yeah my family lived in East Hertfordshire from 1957. We have all moved elsewhere because of very high house prices and the area becoming very busy. Lots of commuters taking the train into London. It is very pretty and sunny/dry. A good place to grow up in the 1960s and 70s.
Salisbury is the only city in Wiltshire and Stonehenge is just outside Salisbury. I live in North Wiltshire, about 45 minutes away. I’m actually closer to Bristol and the lovely city of Bath which is in Somerset.
You'll probably understand the casual snobbery of people who live in Chippenham describing their town as a 'pretty decent place near Bath' - rather than the reality of being nearer to swindon.... 😂😂
@@BadcatV it’s definitely nearer to Bath (Google Maps tells me it’s 15 miles to Bath and 21 miles to Swindon). Chippenham is a slightly better sh** hole than Swindon 😉
I was born and bred in Leeds and back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, it was an oasis of commercial prosperity in a desert of rundown post industrial West Yorkshire as a former coal mining area. However, it became more and more devoid of mainstream culture. At one point, there were no cinemas at all in the city centre and there are still only two theatres. However in the 2000s it enjoyed a revival and there is now a full sized concert and event arena which means many major bands and artists include Leeds on their tour schedules. By the way, the picture of the riverside and the castle walls is the wrong Leeds. There's another place called Leeds in Kent (Southeast of London) which is most famous for its castle. Leeds, Yorkshire does not have a castle at all.
Salisbury - has the tallest cathedral spire in England. The cathedral and the surrounding area is beautiful. Lovely town. Old Sarum outside Salisbury was the old town from about 400BC and then in Roman times several roads converged there. The town was dissolved in the 1200s and the stone pinched to built the cathedral and the new town of Salisbury. It’s a good commute to London with lots of trains - and so very expensive. It’s not far from Stonehenge. (More recently, it’s where Russian agents smeared a deadly nerve agent on the door handle of the home of an ex-Russian agent and his daughter, allegedly, although they have denied it. The victims received new identities and moved to New Zealand, apparently.)
- You forgot to mention that The Magna Carta is held in Salisbury Cathedral, (14th century volume), which contains a transcription of the 1217 version of the Magna Carta, the third version of the document.
The perfume bottle the poison was in was found by a local guy. He gave it to his girlfriend. It killed her, hospitalised him. The cop that initially found the Russian and his daughter, a young bloke, has had to retire from his job.
Berkhamsted (or "Berko") has a nice high streeet with a few good pubs, restaurants, boutiques and you can walk along the canal. It's only about 15 miles away from where I grew up, and I often go there for shopping and a nice brunch/lunch with friends - it is a really nice to visit or live if you can afford it.
The Ferris wheel in Brighton was demolished in 2016. But the same year they built a 450 foot tall tower with a pod of glass windows that goes all the way up with the most stunning panoramic view. It's called British airways i360 👍😊
I know, yeah? So I tend not to take too much notice of any vids. showing the ferris-wheel, because those must have been made at the very least 8 years ago: - hardly a contemporary look at Brighton, is it?
I'm Norwegian, visited Brighton in the spring of 2015 and absolutely fell in love with the city! I also took a ride on the ferris wheel and I remember the amazing view of both the sea waves right underneath and the city behind it, glad I got to try the ferris wheel before it was demolished! If I go back to Brighton someday, I'll definitely give the new British Airways i360 panoramic tower a try! :)
Leeds centre has come a long way since I worked there in the last five years of the 70's. I went back for a visit in 2019 and was really surprised as to how it has "blossomed" into a cosmopolitan hub. It is a beautiful city. I am hoping to go back to the UK again in the not too distant future and this video has given me some insight into where I should think of settling. I am all for small town living but not small town mentality; been there, done that. Maybe a cabin in the heart of the Lake District?🤔 Great topic Tyler.
I might be a bit biased here cos I live in this area but what about surrounding towns of Wakefield such as Pontefract. It has very quick access to Leeds (takes me about 25-30 mins from my house) and Wakefield is a great city with a lot of pubs, nightclubs, train stations for some reason - but don't actually live in Wakefield it's kinda shit to live there - but Pontefract is decent has one of the country's best colleges, New College Pontefract, and the knife crime is a fraction lower than in Wakefield as knifes are only just becoming popular. Also if you're in Pontefract, you have direct access to the town of Castleford - which admittedly is shitter than Wakefield, like there have been stabbings outside of the one good point of Castleford, but aside from that - I think the best part of Castleford is Xscape, which is a huge building with bowling, skiing, a cinema and other shit. The best part is the parking, there is an overflow carpark for Xscape for when the main carpark becomes too busy. It's not too far away, and the only thing you'll really notice is the amount of people shagging in their cars after their last lecture at New College, but as long as you can get past that you'll have an alright day out.
This is mainly best places to live in if you want to commute to London, including Leeds then calling it an overlooked mill town when it was one of the power houses of the industrial revolution and world leading, and chucking in Brisol also now becoming the posh prefer places to commute to London after work from home - this so annoyed me - so many many places so much better when the ranking is not how quickly you can get to London - thanks for your reaction - fun channel😀
Ranking places that are close to London really annoyed me too. The majority of people don't want to work in London and there are so many beautiful places in Britain.
@@AM-dz2sh I agree a lot of people want to work in London but a lot of people don't. The prices of houses in commuting distance are extremely high, and out of reach of a lot of families. Tjere are so many great places in Britain containing people who have absolutely no wish to work in London.
One of the things you have to remember about the UK - the average salaries can be deceptive. For example, a few weeks ago on the south coast, I ate in a restaurant - fairly average price wise middle range independent hotel. Cost about £20 for a main course. I ate at a similar hotel in North Yorkshire a couple of weeks later, and it was about £12-ish for most main courses. The closer to London you get, the more *everything* costs. Personally I'd consider the best place to live to be the area round Lindisfarne, but of course it's out in the stix, and you have to travel for everything apart from pubs.
Number 10, is Bury st Edmunds, St Edmundsbury is the District. Named after the original patron Saint of England, King Edmund. Home of the Magna Carta., burial place of Mary Tudor, and home of the Greene king brewery. The big building you see with 'grass', is the Angel Hotel in the town, it's ivy. It is mentioned in Charles Dicken's Pickwick papers. Beautiful Abbey ruins, and Cathedral. Was a Holy place of pilgrimage.
"They didn't mention the pubs!" That could be a whole rabbit hole to explore. The pubs weren't mentioned because it's just assumed in England (and the rest of the UK!) that any decent town or city will have plenty of pubs to cater for all tastes in beer, wine, spirits and entertainment. When my partner and I were looking for a place for us to spend our retirement in, we decided what we were looking for and set out to find it. We kept refining our list and spent many evenings surfing the net to find out how good each place was. For 18 months, we spent almost every weekend visiting places to see whether we wanted to live there. We checked out an area about two thirds of England. We eventually decided that a particular Cheshire market town would suit our needs, but there were so many nice places, that we found it difficult to get the list into single figures, let alone select one town as being the one for us. It has many buildings dating back to the 1600s and some to the 1500s. Parts of the church have been dated back to 1280. The town has plenty of activity groups and several festivals, mostly during spring and summer. There is plenty to do for adults of all ages, ranging from young adults, right through to those with plenty of retirement years under their belts. After seven years here (retired at 60), I've never regretted coming here.
I was born in Brighton, its beautiful architecture is Regency and it was a favourite place of the Prince Regent in 1780's to 1820 when he became King. Leeds is a major centre in the 19th/20th century and was famous for Wool processing and clothes.
Trivia fact about Selby, the Abbey there has a stained glass window that was paid for by the ancestors of George Washington known as the Washington Window. Leeds is the birth city of Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Peter O'Toole (the actor), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter) and as far as Americans are concerned a certain gentleman by the name of Benjamin Henry Latrobe who was known as the architect of the US Capitol. He also designed the White House Porticos among many other famous US buildings
Some of my ancestors come from Babergh, Suffolk. I had never seen it, there's a lot of old houses. I live half an hour from Brighton. These places would be a culture shock for Americans.
Market town - from early medieval times there were markets that sold the surrounding area’s farm produce. Nowadays, farmer’s markets tend to be fruit, veg and crafts, rather than sheep and cattle trading but they do sell meat. Locally, we have a French market once a month = cheese, bread, pâté, wine, etc.
I live in a farm market town, and we have Saturday "farmer's produce" market, and a Tuesday cattle market, both once a month. We also have French markets a lot too. 😁
The growth on buildings is generally either Ivy or a climbing plant such as Wisteria! And they can be very attractive, one point though, if you have a climbing plant growing on your house, you have to remember that it is an extra job to add to your routine, because it will need to be trimmed at least once a year! But it is lovely to see. I had Wisteria growing on my house, I loved it x
19:46 a mill town in this instance is referencing back to the industrial revolution ..watermills drove the machinery in the new (as they were) factories.
Maldon is lovely. I used to take my kids there for holidays, they loved the park with the splash pad and giant pirate ship - especially as it was free LOL. I live just down the road a bit from Brighton LOL in Eastbourne, which I prefer to Brighton because it is quieter, very picturesque and I just love it here. Moved from London over 20 years ago and have just loved bringing up my children here, plus we also have a pier with entertainment, a Ferris wheel on the beach, a harbour with nice restaurants, art gallery and theatres, Beachy Head and the Downs and not to forget the annual Airbourne festival...selling my town yet ? LOL
@Tyler how funny, you actually used picture of a town I live in in the tumbler for the video! It shows Mermaid street in Rye, East Sussex. Aslo great place to live in the South East of England :)
Apologies Tyler if yo've been told this a hundred times already but just in case you haven't: a helpful tip when pronouncing English place names (especially counties) is to pronounce them as an American! 9 times out 10 you will be correct that way. Case in point: in L.A you have a very famous road called Wilshire Boulevard. You guys pronounce it "Wil-shurr" and so would we! We have a similar sounding county in the west called Wiltshire and we pronounce it "Wilt-shurr" just like an American would. We also pronounce our Boroughs as "Burr-ah" rhyming with "brother" not "Burrow" as in "Borrow". This "shurr" ending applies for every county in England: Yorkshire, Berkshire, Worcestershire (pronounced wooster-shurr) and Gloucesterhire (pronounced gloster-shurr) You actually have a town called Gloucester in Massacheusetts that I'm sure every one there pronounces "glosterr" and that's probably because the town was founded by anglo-immigrants from the UK who also prounced the original English city as "gloster" too! This also applies for Southwark in south London. You have a very famous airport in New York called Newark airport. Think about how you pronounce that: "Newuk" not "New-wark". So when trying to pronounce Southwark in London, pronounce it the American way, as in "Suth-uhk", because that is how we pronounce it too. American pronounciation of towns and cities is pretty much identical to the British way, mostly because a lot of American towns and cities were founded by English immigrants so the sound is very similar. The only time we ever pronounce the word Shire as "Shy-er" is when we are talking about Shire horses! For every thing else it will always be "shurr" rather than "shy-er". Hope that helps!
Check out a Northwest (of England) Coastal seaside town ... BLACKPOOL and the ILLUMINATIONS that begin in November .... Quite a spectacle if you have never heard of them .... Blackpool Tower is a copy of the Eiffel Tower though not as tall .... Blackpool is a little further up the coast from Liverpool and approx 50 miles from Manchester .... Paula UK x
I used to have a daily commute to work, walking around the largest freshwater lake in Hart, although it is actually named a pond 😂 It is weird, he mentions Hart which covers quite a few towns and villages then says Wokingham which is a short drive from Hart and is one town lol
East Hertfordshire isn't a town either but an entire local administrative area in Hertfordshire, I border it in my area of North Hertfordshire as does the Hatfield and Welwyn administrative area though West Herts and Dacorum districts do not.
@@helenjarvis7755 It's a nice part of the county especially compared to Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead, a bit close to Essex though. Mind you we in the North end also border that place too.
Leeds...A Milltown is a town/ City that evolved out of the industrial Revolution....it has now superseded Bradford which was THE center of British Wool trading for almost a century.
Looks like Brixham wouldn't rate on their system due to it being distant from most cities, 5 hours from London would affect the ranking system they use.
East Herts (Hertfordshire) is where I lived for 20 years and brought up my family. It's pleasant with a plethora of historic and attractive small towns and villages, and is less than an hour's commute to central London - which is why earnings are so high for those who do so. As you guessed, this means property is more expensive. I have recently moved to the Midlands to be near family, and although my new property is about the same size and in a similar type of neighbourhood to my East Herts property it cost me only 3/4 of what I sold my old property for.
Leeds was never an overlooked mill town most towns and cities in the north west and north east were in the forefront of the industrial revolution Lancashire held the most cotton mills (in fact the town near where I live had over 400 cotton mills and produced approximately 25% of the cotton fabric produced in the UK at the hight of production) and Yorkshire was woollen mills
Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. It was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley Wintney Rural District. It was named the best place to live in the UK in the 2017 Halifax quality of life study.
Hart - never heard of it but I recognised that section of the dual carriageway. Not that far from me! Hampshire. It is nice. Can commute to London, hence expensive.
I live in Morecambe England and awesome views over towards lake district, as Morecambe is in a bay you get awesome sunsets I live 3 min walk to prom beautiful place ,bit run down but I'd not live anywhere else pal respect bro 😀 check up Morecambe n wise comedians funny in 80,s statue of Eric Morecambe on prom opened by the queen
I'm UK born and bred and have travelled the UK extensively for both pleasure and work. I still maintain that regardless of any list which is going to be a subjective representation of the people that completed the poll NOT of the entire UK population, Where I live has to rank among one of the nicest places to live in the UK. I live approx 30 miles North of London with great rail and road links to the capital in the worlds first garden city otherwise known as Letchworth Garden City. It has a population of around 30,000 so is a relatively small town with lots of green spaces and also a thriving industrial area. As for physical size its approx 2.5 miles x 2.5 miles so not very big at all, We also have the UK's (at one time allegedly the worlds, but this is unsure) first roundabout at Shollershott Circus. Like many other small towns in the UK its a beautiful place to live and bring up children.
I have lived in or near 5 of these places. Can confirm Bristol is amazing. Definitely live there. Brighton was amazing 20 years ago when it was boho, but its gone a bit up market and boojie so all the artistic types that made it so good to live in have been priced out (hastings/st leonards down the coast now has the vibe that Brighton used to have). Have lived in Hertford in East Hertfordshire and it is dull dull dull. Same for Birkhamsted. Suffolk is God’s waiting room… not fun. Leeds is a great night out (though I have never lived there) I live in Manchester now. It’s AMAZING!!!!!!! But don’t tell anyone from London… we don’t need any more of them moving up
Hart (never heard of it) apparently has the largest freshwater lake in England. What about the lakes in the Lake District, Windermere being the largest. Maybe Kielder Water in Northumberland although it is man- made. The list seemed to have trouble getting out of the south but no surprise there!!
East Hertfordshire is not a town but one of the local council districts within the overall county of Hertfordshire, it contains multiple towns and villages and is densely populated while retaining a largely rural theme. I live in North Hertfordshire which borders East Hertfordshire along with Essex, Cambridge and a tiny bit of Suffolk so I know the area quite well, Hertfordshire is a highly affluent county of high population density and with a very extensive history dating to some 4000 years and is the county that sits across the northern border of Greater London.
My mate lives in Ware these days and Stansted Abbots before that, It's pretty decent. I'd rather live around St Albans though, we lived and went to school there in the sixties and seventies. Couldn't afford to live there now?
@@johnp8131 Ware's OK, the east side in general is pretty nice. I like St Albans but if I lived there the traffic would drive me nuts, maybe somewhere like Redbourn or Childwick Green would be more to my taste? TBH anywhere in Herts now is pretty pricey as it goes. The North of the county is nice because you have easy access to Cambridge which I prefer generally over going into London. Herts is pretty nice overall if you ignore Stevenage and Hemel.
@@eddihaskell the title of the video says react? You thought there was a place in England where residents 'lived forever'? do you take everything literally?
Lots of these selections were from Suffolk and the East of England where I grew up. It's alright if you have kids, commute to London etc but there's very little opportunity for young people. I moved to the second city and never looked back When they say people have high income, I think it means that they were already well off and then moved to a nice place. Also they pronounced Babergh totally wrong, it's said Bay (like where the sea comes in) -ber (like the sound you make when your cold brr) !
If you live in Manchester (I don't) kids are virtually born with football boots on. Generations will follow their team like a religon. The only difference is whether you are a Manchester United fan (red and gold) or Manchester City fan (pale blue and white). Its an age old rivalry past down from father to son/daughter. You should react to a few football history and compelations videos as you are a sports lover.
Sr Edmundsbury (Bury St Edmunds) Suffolk was the Burial place & Shrine of St Edmund Martyred King of Anglia & England's first Patron Saint the whole area was extremely wealthy in the middle ages from the production of wool & wollen cloth, present day houses several US Airforce bases.
That is OXFORD UNIVERSITY with all the spires .... It is IVY that grows on that building ..... LEEDS is over 200 miles north of London .... But good transport for London ..... Manchester is Great .... Outside of most towns in the UK is a lot of countryside .... If I had a choice, I would live in St Ives, Cornwall, the next bay is Carbis Bay and in my opinion the best beach in the whole of the UK .... Paula UK x
You also deserve to go to the Scottish Highlands in August, and go to a wooded area. You'd disappear under a cloud of midges... You'd long for the time you just had one gnat.
21:00 a market town is also a call back to the past .. few (if any) market towns have any importance as locale trade hubs and farmers markets any more, calling a town a market town is normally more about what it was than what it is these days.
I live close to Bury St Edmunds they said it wrong and this place is over 1000 years old the cathedral is 1001 years old the history is linked to the St Edmund and abbey gardens is very popular all year around we are one hour away from London and 30 mins by train from Cambridge, Green King is here one of the best beer brewery in uk with so many microbreweries as well here a link to the town there is a good video on UA-cam walking around the town and the cathedral and gardens
Did a real ale crawl around Bury St Edmunds prior to covid. Bloody good! Probably better now than when I was stationed at Honnington in the seventies? Glad the Nutshell's still going.
@@johnp8131 yes bury good place for a good drinking session weather spoons, oaks barn, rose and crown, beer cafe, The Old Cannon Brewery then home good day out 👍👍🍺
Finally, Bristol is a great place! For all you Americans, ‘shire’ at the end of a county name, like Yorkshire, is pronounced formally as ‘sheer’ (Yorksheer), but colloquially as ‘sher’ (Yorksher), with a short, clipped ‘r’ sound at the end, so it doesn’t trail off.
My nana was from Manchester and I get clothes from two little businesses just outside of Manchester and I live in Canada. I’m even friends with some of both businesses staff and owners.
A hart is a male red deer, synonymous with stag and used in contrast to the female hind; its use may now be considered mostly poetic or archaic. The word comes from Middle English hert, from Old English heorot; compare Frisian hart, Dutch hert, German Hirsch, and Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish hjort, all meaning "deer". Heorot is given as the name of Hrothgar's mead hall in the Old English epic Beowulf. Historically, hart has also been used generically to mean "deer, antelope", as in the royal antelope, which Willem Bosman called "the king of the harts".[1] The word hart was also sometimes used in the past specifically to describe a stag of more than five years.
Small towns in US are usually MILES from anywhere large, in the UK most 'small towns' are no more than an hour from a sizable city. The scale is different.
These are not towns as such but council districts. Hart, for instance, is a whole collection of separate towns in the county of Hampshire. Likewise, East Hertfordshire.
We have enough beautiful places in the UK for us not to be clamouring to live in a select few. However, I have to agree about Salisbury, which is a short drive or bus trip from me. Really lovely place, and friendly, what's not to like?🤪 🙋♀️🇬🇧
Hello Tyler, given that your videos show off a lot of beautiful towns and scenery may I suggest that you use a larger screen for the video and a smaller screen for your narration? No disrespect, but the video would be better and we can still hear and see you.
there plenty of small beautiful small towns throughout the whole of the UK, I live in Lincolnshire & it is a farming place with lots of countryside, plenty of history & not far from the beaches, it is a wonderful place to live.
@@juliecobbina2024 I grew up in Liverpool & left for lincolnshire in my 30s & have never looked back, have lived here now for over 20 yrs, couldn't imagine myself ever moving back to city life, I love the peacefulness of it all.
This list, while better than most on this subject because of its mix of middle-sized towns and big cities, is still very skewed towards places within commuting distance of London. Of course there are places I would use to leaven this bias. Perhaps Winchester or Weymouth, Truro or Hereford, and York or even Alnwick.
Amusingly the filmmakers included a beautiful picture of Leeds Castle in the Leeds section. The problem with this is that Leeds Castle is 300 miles away from Leeds in Kent!! 😉
Mate, spot on 😂
Yup 😂
I thought that too. Very funny. I bet it was deliberately done for comments. Haha
also they show Oxford Universtiy as a representation of Oxford.
This may come as a huge shock, but not everyone commutes to London to work. Peasants, like me, have menial jobs in servitude in other, poorer regions of the country.
Joking aside, this is a video promoting areas within commuting distance of Londim.
England is a fabulously diverse, tiny little bomb of a country. I’m 68 and live in Lancashire, actually near Wigan. The countryside is so spectacular I have my own UA-cam channel dedicated to it.
I have spent my life climbing, hiking, camping in our lovely country in all seasons. Actually, London and the south east is the area that holds the least attention. What do I know. I’m a mere northerner.
Maybe they're all near London because that's where all the places with the highest standard of living just happen to be.
@@adambattersby8934 Very true. But for those of us who value quality of life over than material wealth…. It’s all swings and roundabouts.
@@primalengland London holds the least attention?? Wtf? To who? Maybe to you but you are in the minority. The UK is centred around London and the whole world knows about London and not the wee town you hail from. You sound bitter and jealous. Probably because you can't afford to live in London. Get over it. 😎
Salisbury not only has the cathedral, with its famous spire and the Magna Carta, but it also stands on the Hampshire Avon (with its great angling). It's situated between Salisbury Plain , Cranborne Chase and the New Forest, and is pretty close to Bournemouth and Poole (Sandbanks) for the seaside.
My dad went to Bishop's Wordsworth School there, and was taught by William Golding (Lord of the Flies). We like to think that he and his fellow pupils were the inspiration...😂
The mention of Leeds as a former mill town refers to it previously being a major centre of textile mills before China became the world's preeminent textile producer!
India before china, we sold the looms and equipment to India when the mills closed.
Our business buys most of our fabric from Bangladesh and India
Most of what was West Riding was, it was know as the Woolen district
Of all the towns and cities on this somewhat idiosyncratic list, Leeds stands out as the one which has most obviously recreated itself as a vibrant, young-minded, chic place after 150 years of being associated with the famous "dark satanic mills" and the associated squalor and poverty. Well done Leeds!
@@davebirch1976 The West Riding indeed - why did they ever get rid of that name and the other Ridings - The North and East Ridings of Yorkshire
I'm a Canadian who has visited the UK over a dozen times and love the UK but mostly the smaller villages, especially the market towns. London is amazing simply for the diversity and history but...a city is a city...and I'm a country girl. In Bristol the Clifton Suspension Bridge (@15:09) is very historic and a marvel of engineering, built in the 1800's. Brighton is cool but touristy. For cities, I enjoy York and Warwick. For the country, Devon, Cornwall and Yorkshire.
Haha I made a comment about how is places in Cornwall or Devon not on the list, and I find your comment, I've lived in London a nice Borough all my life but we'd go to Cornwall or Wales each year n Devon. You have great taste.
@@garyskinner2422 - We both have GREAT taste! 😜 Was in the UK earlier this month.
@@susieq9801 I have to say I'm really biased and really lucky, I live in a village in Devon in the Dartmoor National Park
@@katetackaberry8263 - What's for supper tomorrow? I will book my flight tonight! 🤣
@@susieq9801 It's gotta be Cottage Pie!! 😁
Salisbury is my home town, so glad to see it at number 1! 🇬🇧
Salisbury well deserves its premier place in this list. Of all the British cities I have seen, Salisbury has the fewest signs of urban decay. It is a beautiful place to visit and no doubt to live in. The Cathedral Close alone would rank it highly in any desirable place to live
Manchester’s town hall is famous for its decor - lots of bees, to indicate hard workers. Salford Quays is the new TV town. The quays have gigantic fish in them that are a bit scary as you can’t really see them but the water moves …
My nana was from Manchester. Her mum owned two pubs in the late 1800’s. One was still open in the 1980’s.
I’m from Stroud and I can confirm it’s a thriving arts town with a very bohemian culture, not near London though, it’s in Gloucestershire in the West Country and whilst it does have good connections to London, it’s connection to Bristol is far more prevalent
I'm from S. Wales, and can confirm Stroud is a beautiful town, in a truly stunning part of England.
Bristol, my home town. Can only recommend it for visitors. Great history, great entertainment. Expensive to buy property.
My home too. Love it here but yes. Bloody expensive to buy 🤯
mine too
I lived in Bristol for over 10 years and absolutely loved it, but I moved out to the Cotswolds to buy my first home because, ridiculously, it's much cheaper here!
Bristol lol
Bristol , Is an Anti car driver town ...Awful place to drive around , The council has done all it can to stop you driving around Bristol.
Omg, wow, I am so happy to see my town bury st Edmunds In there 😊. The first picture showed st Edmunds Church. Right next to that was my 0rimary school. High quality of life and an Abbey that has been opened to the public for over 1000 years, really recommend visiting, the green building is actually an exclusive hotel in the town centre
The plants growing up the buildings are either Virginia Creeper or Ivy. In both cases the climb by themselves and need no help (other than savage pruning every few years to keep the windows clear and to stop the tendrils going under roof tiles or guttering)
With lots of added spiders & other creepy crawlies lol
It's ivy .. not sure we even have Virginia Creeper in the UK, don't know if I know the plant .. but I know the place 🤗 and it's ivy.
Brighton - famously an actor’s commuter town as the last train from London is well after the theatre’s final curtain. He didn’t mention Brighton Pavilion, The Prince Regent’s (George IV) seaside retreat - a mix of Chinese and Indian decor. Fabulously weird place. Queen Victoria didn’t like it and sold it to the local council but not before removing some of the fireplaces and other items, now to be found in Buckingham Palace. Great shopping in The Lanes, although many of the antique and craft shops closed down because of covid. Great clubs. University. Large Beach. Pier. Very colourful town.
Instead of building the i360 the remains of the West Pier should have been rebuilt or a new one built, I can just remember it when it was still mostly intact although closed, by squeezing through the locked gates one could explore it, carefully as some of the timbers were a bit rotten, hoping not to get caught and a clip around the ear for being a naughty kid. It was sad to see it slowly disappear with each gale and the couple of arson attacks.
Brighton is a great town, now a city.
If you’re ever over here, go to the oldest and most intact medieval street in the UK, ‘The Shambles’ in York. Also visit Chester, an old Roman walled City whose walls still exist. The Cotswolds are a must visit as it represents a quintessentially English village. The Malvern Hills, Shropshire; home of the first iron bridge in the now appropriately named Ironbridge, still standing today, named because of its influence in the start of the industrial revolution, thanks to Abraham Darby, which then revolutionised the whole world.
I have In my time lived in Windsor,Ascot, Wokingham, Guildford, I now live in The Cotswolds and a bus ride from both Bath and Salisbury, I get the best of both worlds.
Don't forget that all English town names have a meaning (long, long before those same names were transported across the pond).
"Bury" is Anglo Saxon, so that puts the origin of this name you queried, to about 6 or 7 hundred years after Christ.
"Bury" means "a kind of fortified main centre".
So today you can visit "Canterbury" - look on-line and you'll probably find also what "Canter" meant in that era.
Then put the two together.
This is the formula for ALL British towns (whether or not they subsequently were shipped out to North America).
Bristol - has lots of old ships to visit. Bath is nearby which is a very nice stone built city.
My home city is bath
How they don't have places from Cornwall or Devon on the list is amazing, how about York or Bath also
Slightly surprised they didn’t mention that Stonehenge is very close to Salisbury … !
Or that the cathedral is home to an original copy of Magna Carta.
I live in a small village near Maldon, no 15 and can confirm it is a lovely town, very historical.
Leeds, a Mill Town means that it used to have a huge amount of woollen Mills in it. Market towns were the main towns in an area where throughout history animals and produce were taken for sale at specific day in a month. I used to live in Wokingham and yes it's a great place to live.
East of the Pennine hills (where Leeds is) tends to be wool and flax mills, west of the hills is cotton, due to the higher rainfall on that side. Made better conditions for cotton spinning and weaving.
Leeds had woolen mills, not cotton mills, which were in Lancashire.
I had put cotton Mills by mistake, now corrected thanks.
The official top 5 are as follows
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1. Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
2. Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
3. Chester, Cheshire.
4. York, North Yorkshire.
5. Truro, Cornwall.
How none are on that list is shocking, that is the definative top 5 best places to live in England.
I'm from Shrewsbury and I totally agree! We are literally the birthplace of Charles Darwin and it's so nice here! We are so underrated.
Yeah this videos list is weird
That’s more like after correct list! How do you not have Chester or York? But you have Leeds!
I love Chester. I was brought up there.
🤣 I always want to know what Mr Rumple has to say!! You have a great sense of humour 😁 (and yes, that is how you spell humour) 😉
St Edmundsbury used to be a non-metropolitan government district until 2019 when it was abolished. It included the town of Bury St Edmunds. The cathedral in Bury St Edmunds is, however, called St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
@Keith Bulley. I’m British and I have never heard of “ St. Edmundsbury”. Bury St. Edmunds is a famous and very historic town.
@@belindamay8063 I have had the pleasure of visiting Bury St Edmunds and its cathedral. I had never heard of the place "St Edmundsbury" either. I suspect some of these surveys were analysed by local government districts, many of which have unfamiliar (made-up) names as compared with more well-known towns. I don't think I had ever heard of Hart either but it would seem to not be far from where I live! Our neighbouring borough is Rushmoor but the centres of population are the well known towns of Aldershot and Farnborough.
Yeah my family lived in East Hertfordshire from 1957. We have all moved elsewhere because of very high house prices and the area becoming very busy. Lots of commuters taking the train into London. It is very pretty and sunny/dry. A good place to grow up in the 1960s and 70s.
Salisbury is the only city in Wiltshire and Stonehenge is just outside Salisbury. I live in North Wiltshire, about 45 minutes away. I’m actually closer to Bristol and the lovely city of Bath which is in Somerset.
You'll probably understand the casual snobbery of people who live in Chippenham describing their town as a 'pretty decent place near Bath' - rather than the reality of being nearer to swindon.... 😂😂
@@BadcatV it’s definitely nearer to Bath (Google Maps tells me it’s 15 miles to Bath and 21 miles to Swindon). Chippenham is a slightly better sh** hole than Swindon 😉
Bristol. The actor Cary Grant was born and brought up there. His real name is Archibald Leach. 🙂
I was born and bred in Leeds and back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, it was an oasis of commercial prosperity in a desert of rundown post industrial West Yorkshire as a former coal mining area. However, it became more and more devoid of mainstream culture. At one point, there were no cinemas at all in the city centre and there are still only two theatres. However in the 2000s it enjoyed a revival and there is now a full sized concert and event arena which means many major bands and artists include Leeds on their tour schedules.
By the way, the picture of the riverside and the castle walls is the wrong Leeds. There's another place called Leeds in Kent (Southeast of London) which is most famous for its castle. Leeds, Yorkshire does not have a castle at all.
the plant growing onthe side of the building is ivy
Salisbury - has the tallest cathedral spire in England. The cathedral and the surrounding area is beautiful. Lovely town. Old Sarum outside Salisbury was the old town from about 400BC and then in Roman times several roads converged there. The town was dissolved in the 1200s and the stone pinched to built the cathedral and the new town of Salisbury. It’s a good commute to London with lots of trains - and so very expensive. It’s not far from Stonehenge.
(More recently, it’s where Russian agents smeared a deadly nerve agent on the door handle of the home of an ex-Russian agent and his daughter, allegedly, although they have denied it. The victims received new identities and moved to New Zealand, apparently.)
- You forgot to mention that The Magna Carta is held in Salisbury Cathedral, (14th century volume), which contains a transcription of the 1217 version of the Magna Carta, the third version of the document.
You didn't mention that I was born there. Still waiting for my blue plaque. 😉 Seriously though, it's a lovely place and well worth a visit.
@@carolineb3527 - The British Heritage Society needs to get its butt in gear! No blue plaque??? Outrageous!!!
The perfume bottle the poison was in was found by a local guy. He gave it to his girlfriend. It killed her, hospitalised him. The cop that initially found the Russian and his daughter, a young bloke, has had to retire from his job.
Why does this have to be mentioned??-we in Salisbury were traumatised by it all and are still in our own way coming to terms with it!!
I literally just saw my old flat in the background of one of the images! The Crystal Palace pub in Berkhamstead was our local!!!!!
That guy at the pleasure seeker bit looked like he found his own pleasure just under the camera shot 😂
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Berkhamsted (or "Berko") has a nice high streeet with a few good pubs, restaurants, boutiques and you can walk along the canal. It's only about 15 miles away from where I grew up, and I often go there for shopping and a nice brunch/lunch with friends - it is a really nice to visit or live if you can afford it.
"St Edmundsbury"? As far as I know, it's "Bury St, Edmunds" on all the maps and in local parlance. Hence "Bury" as an abbreviation.
St Edmundsbury is the name of the cathedral and the district, Bury St Edmunds is the name of the town.
The Ferris wheel in Brighton was demolished in 2016. But the same year they built a 450 foot tall tower with a pod of glass windows that goes all the way up with the most stunning panoramic view. It's called British airways i360 👍😊
I know, yeah? So I tend not to take too much notice of any vids. showing the ferris-wheel, because those must have been made at the very least 8 years ago: - hardly a contemporary look at Brighton, is it?
I'm Norwegian, visited Brighton in the spring of 2015 and absolutely fell in love with the city! I also took a ride on the ferris wheel and I remember the amazing view of both the sea waves right underneath and the city behind it, glad I got to try the ferris wheel before it was demolished! If I go back to Brighton someday, I'll definitely give the new British Airways i360 panoramic tower a try! :)
@@DidrickNamtvedt Det bør du virkelig gjøre! Det er helt fantastisk utsikt derfra 🙂
@@TravellingTorunn Tviler ikke, det er notert på min bucket list! :)
Leeds centre has come a long way since I worked there in the last five years of the 70's.
I went back for a visit in 2019 and was really surprised as to how it has "blossomed" into a cosmopolitan hub. It is a beautiful city.
I am hoping to go back to the UK again in the not too distant future and this video has given me some insight into where I should think of settling. I am all for small town living but not small town mentality; been there, done that.
Maybe a cabin in the heart of the Lake District?🤔
Great topic Tyler.
I might be a bit biased here cos I live in this area but what about surrounding towns of Wakefield such as Pontefract. It has very quick access to Leeds (takes me about 25-30 mins from my house) and Wakefield is a great city with a lot of pubs, nightclubs, train stations for some reason - but don't actually live in Wakefield it's kinda shit to live there - but Pontefract is decent has one of the country's best colleges, New College Pontefract, and the knife crime is a fraction lower than in Wakefield as knifes are only just becoming popular. Also if you're in Pontefract, you have direct access to the town of Castleford - which admittedly is shitter than Wakefield, like there have been stabbings outside of the one good point of Castleford, but aside from that - I think the best part of Castleford is Xscape, which is a huge building with bowling, skiing, a cinema and other shit. The best part is the parking, there is an overflow carpark for Xscape for when the main carpark becomes too busy. It's not too far away, and the only thing you'll really notice is the amount of people shagging in their cars after their last lecture at New College, but as long as you can get past that you'll have an alright day out.
Check out Dorking, Reigate & many parts of Surrey. BOXHILL! Area of outstanding natural beauty. All within commuting distance of London
This is mainly best places to live in if you want to commute to London, including Leeds then calling it an overlooked mill town when it was one of the power houses of the industrial revolution and world leading, and chucking in Brisol also now becoming the posh prefer places to commute to London after work from home - this so annoyed me - so many many places so much better when the ranking is not how quickly you can get to London - thanks for your reaction - fun channel😀
Ranking places that are close to London really annoyed me too. The majority of people don't want to work in London and there are so many beautiful places in Britain.
You say that.. but the data shows - People want to access London. Again and again polling show this.
@@AM-dz2sh I agree a lot of people want to work in London but a lot of people don't. The prices of houses in commuting distance are extremely high, and out of reach of a lot of families. Tjere are so many great places in Britain containing people who have absolutely no wish to work in London.
One of the things you have to remember about the UK - the average salaries can be deceptive. For example, a few weeks ago on the south coast, I ate in a restaurant - fairly average price wise middle range independent hotel. Cost about £20 for a main course. I ate at a similar hotel in North Yorkshire a couple of weeks later, and it was about £12-ish for most main courses.
The closer to London you get, the more *everything* costs.
Personally I'd consider the best place to live to be the area round Lindisfarne, but of course it's out in the stix, and you have to travel for everything apart from pubs.
Sussex is expensive
Number 10, is Bury st Edmunds, St Edmundsbury is the District. Named after the original patron Saint of England, King Edmund. Home of the Magna Carta., burial place of Mary Tudor, and home of the Greene king brewery. The big building you see with 'grass', is the Angel Hotel in the town, it's ivy. It is mentioned in Charles Dicken's Pickwick papers. Beautiful Abbey ruins, and Cathedral. Was a Holy place of pilgrimage.
Had to laugh when he said the river in Bristol was built into the middle - when its obvious that the place was built up around the river lol
"They didn't mention the pubs!" That could be a whole rabbit hole to explore.
The pubs weren't mentioned because it's just assumed in England (and the rest of the UK!) that any decent town or city will have plenty of pubs to cater for all tastes in beer, wine, spirits and entertainment.
When my partner and I were looking for a place for us to spend our retirement in, we decided what we were looking for and set out to find it. We kept refining our list and spent many evenings surfing the net to find out how good each place was.
For 18 months, we spent almost every weekend visiting places to see whether we wanted to live there. We checked out an area about two thirds of England.
We eventually decided that a particular Cheshire market town would suit our needs, but there were so many nice places, that we found it difficult to get the list into single figures, let alone select one town as being the one for us.
It has many buildings dating back to the 1600s and some to the 1500s. Parts of the church have been dated back to 1280.
The town has plenty of activity groups and several festivals, mostly during spring and summer.
There is plenty to do for adults of all ages, ranging from young adults, right through to those with plenty of retirement years under their belts.
After seven years here (retired at 60), I've never regretted coming here.
I was born in Brighton, its beautiful architecture is Regency and it was a favourite place of the Prince Regent in 1780's to 1820 when he became King. Leeds is a major centre in the 19th/20th century and was famous for Wool processing and clothes.
Shire is pronounced Sher. The monarch’s representative in a shire was called a Reave, so the Shire Reave morphed into Sheriff.
Only as a suffix. The word shire is pronounced shire.
Trivia fact about Selby, the Abbey there has a stained glass window that was paid for by the ancestors of George Washington known as the Washington Window.
Leeds is the birth city of Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Peter O'Toole (the actor), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter) and as far as Americans are concerned a certain gentleman by the name of Benjamin Henry Latrobe who was known as the architect of the US Capitol. He also designed the White House Porticos among many other famous US buildings
Prefer the Cotswolds over any of those. Just personal choice. Maybe you could look into this area see what you think?
Some of my ancestors come from Babergh, Suffolk. I had never seen it, there's a lot of old houses. I live half an hour from Brighton. These places would be a culture shock for Americans.
Market town - from early medieval times there were markets that sold the surrounding area’s farm produce. Nowadays, farmer’s markets tend to be fruit, veg and crafts, rather than sheep and cattle trading but they do sell meat. Locally, we have a French market once a month = cheese, bread, pâté, wine, etc.
I live in a farm market town, and we have Saturday "farmer's produce" market, and a Tuesday cattle market, both once a month. We also have French markets a lot too. 😁
market towns would have had a royal charter allowing a market to be set up
@@ianprince1698 yes...? Mine does!
The growth on buildings is generally either Ivy or a climbing plant such as Wisteria! And they can be very attractive, one point though, if you have a climbing plant growing on your house, you have to remember that it is an extra job to add to your routine, because it will need to be trimmed at least once a year! But it is lovely to see. I had Wisteria growing on my house, I loved it x
St Edmundsbury, Suffolk - not to be confused with Bury, Lancashire.
It's Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - not St Edmundsbury. Only local people call it Bury for short. My dad's from there.
The plant growing up the old building is ivy.
19:46 a mill town in this instance is referencing back to the industrial revolution ..watermills drove the machinery in the new (as they were) factories.
Maldon is lovely. I used to take my kids there for holidays, they loved the park with the splash pad and giant pirate ship - especially as it was free LOL. I live just down the road a bit from Brighton LOL in Eastbourne, which I prefer to Brighton because it is quieter, very picturesque and I just love it here. Moved from London over 20 years ago and have just loved bringing up my children here, plus we also have a pier with entertainment, a Ferris wheel on the beach, a harbour with nice restaurants, art gallery and theatres, Beachy Head and the Downs and not to forget the annual Airbourne festival...selling my town yet ? LOL
@Tyler how funny, you actually used picture of a town I live in in the tumbler for the video! It shows Mermaid street in Rye, East Sussex. Aslo great place to live in the South East of England :)
What the narrator didn't tell you, is - the number one city they chose - Salisbury - is very close to Stonehenge.
Leeds Castle is a great place to visit, and Salisbury is the home of Stone Henge, another great place to visit if you get the chance. :)
Apologies Tyler if yo've been told this a hundred times already but just in case you haven't: a helpful tip when pronouncing English place names (especially counties) is to pronounce them as an American! 9 times out 10 you will be correct that way. Case in point: in L.A you have a very famous road called Wilshire Boulevard. You guys pronounce it "Wil-shurr" and so would we! We have a similar sounding county in the west called Wiltshire and we pronounce it "Wilt-shurr" just like an American would. We also pronounce our Boroughs as "Burr-ah" rhyming with "brother" not "Burrow" as in "Borrow". This "shurr" ending applies for every county in England: Yorkshire, Berkshire, Worcestershire (pronounced wooster-shurr) and Gloucesterhire (pronounced gloster-shurr)
You actually have a town called Gloucester in Massacheusetts that I'm sure every one there pronounces "glosterr" and that's probably because the town was founded by anglo-immigrants from the UK who also prounced the original English city as "gloster" too! This also applies for Southwark in south London. You have a very famous airport in New York called Newark airport. Think about how you pronounce that: "Newuk" not "New-wark". So when trying to pronounce Southwark in London, pronounce it the American way, as in "Suth-uhk", because that is how we pronounce it too. American pronounciation of towns and cities is pretty much identical to the British way, mostly because a lot of American towns and cities were founded by English immigrants so the sound is very similar. The only time we ever pronounce the word Shire as "Shy-er" is when we are talking about Shire horses! For every thing else it will always be "shurr" rather than "shy-er". Hope that helps!
Check out a Northwest (of England) Coastal seaside town ... BLACKPOOL and the ILLUMINATIONS that begin in November .... Quite a spectacle if you have never heard of them .... Blackpool Tower is a copy of the Eiffel Tower though not as tall .... Blackpool is a little further up the coast from Liverpool and approx 50 miles from Manchester .... Paula UK x
I used to have a daily commute to work, walking around the largest freshwater lake in Hart, although it is actually named a pond 😂 It is weird, he mentions Hart which covers quite a few towns and villages then says Wokingham which is a short drive from Hart and is one town lol
East Hertfordshire isn't a town either but an entire local administrative area in Hertfordshire, I border it in my area of North Hertfordshire as does the Hatfield and Welwyn administrative area though West Herts and Dacorum districts do not.
@@darthwiizius East Herts is where my family come from. Lived in Bishop's Stortford fir the first 42 yrs of life.
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It's a nice part of the county especially compared to Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead, a bit close to Essex though. Mind you we in the North end also border that place too.
Leeds...A Milltown is a town/ City that evolved out of the industrial Revolution....it has now superseded Bradford which was THE center of British Wool trading for almost a century.
Looks like Brixham wouldn't rate on their system due to it being distant from most cities, 5 hours from London would affect the ranking system they use.
Lancashire and Yorkshire used to have a lot of cotton mills..
Yorkshire had more woollen mills Lancashire was better for cotton due to the climate
East Herts (Hertfordshire) is where I lived for 20 years and brought up my family. It's pleasant with a plethora of historic and attractive small towns and villages, and is less than an hour's commute to central London - which is why earnings are so high for those who do so. As you guessed, this means property is more expensive. I have recently moved to the Midlands to be near family, and although my new property is about the same size and in a similar type of neighbourhood to my East Herts property it cost me only 3/4 of what I sold my old property for.
Leeds was never an overlooked mill town most towns and cities in the north west and north east were in the forefront of the industrial revolution
Lancashire held the most cotton mills (in fact the town near where I live had over 400 cotton mills and produced approximately 25% of the cotton fabric produced in the UK at the hight of production) and Yorkshire was woollen mills
Yay! Manchester ranked #2 .. I'm from there 🥰 My great Uncle was the Lord Mayer of Leeds.
Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. It was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley Wintney Rural District. It was named the best place to live in the UK in the 2017 Halifax quality of life study.
Hart - never heard of it but I recognised that section of the dual carriageway. Not that far from me! Hampshire. It is nice. Can commute to London, hence expensive.
I live in Morecambe England and awesome views over towards lake district, as Morecambe is in a bay you get awesome sunsets I live 3 min walk to prom beautiful place ,bit run down but I'd not live anywhere else pal respect bro 😀 check up Morecambe n wise comedians funny in 80,s statue of Eric Morecambe on prom opened by the queen
Ipswich is a beautiful place surrounded by beautiful villages
I live at Ascot, about 8 miles from Wokingham … I feel like I’ve made it now ;-) !!
I'm UK born and bred and have travelled the UK extensively for both pleasure and work. I still maintain that regardless of any list which is going to be a subjective representation of the people that completed the poll NOT of the entire UK population, Where I live has to rank among one of the nicest places to live in the UK. I live approx 30 miles North of London with great rail and road links to the capital in the worlds first garden city otherwise known as Letchworth Garden City. It has a population of around 30,000 so is a relatively small town with lots of green spaces and also a thriving industrial area. As for physical size its approx 2.5 miles x 2.5 miles so not very big at all, We also have the UK's (at one time allegedly the worlds, but this is unsure) first roundabout at Shollershott Circus. Like many other small towns in the UK its a beautiful place to live and bring up children.
I have lived in or near 5 of these places. Can confirm Bristol is amazing. Definitely live there. Brighton was amazing 20 years ago when it was boho, but its gone a bit up market and boojie so all the artistic types that made it so good to live in have been priced out (hastings/st leonards down the coast now has the vibe that Brighton used to have).
Have lived in Hertford in East Hertfordshire and it is dull dull dull. Same for Birkhamsted. Suffolk is God’s waiting room… not fun.
Leeds is a great night out (though I have never lived there)
I live in Manchester now. It’s AMAZING!!!!!!! But don’t tell anyone from London… we don’t need any more of them moving up
Was that a photo of Leeds Castle included in the segment on Leeds?
Wait! I think I just saw my grandparents' car in Bury ST Edmunds. I recognise the car park. Also, Salisbury was a bold choice for top but I do agree.
Hart (never heard of it) apparently has the largest freshwater lake in England. What about the lakes in the Lake District, Windermere being the largest. Maybe Kielder Water in Northumberland although it is man- made. The list seemed to have trouble getting out of the south but no surprise there!!
East Hertfordshire is not a town but one of the local council districts within the overall county of Hertfordshire, it contains multiple towns and villages and is densely populated while retaining a largely rural theme. I live in North Hertfordshire which borders East Hertfordshire along with Essex, Cambridge and a tiny bit of Suffolk so I know the area quite well, Hertfordshire is a highly affluent county of high population density and with a very extensive history dating to some 4000 years and is the county that sits across the northern border of Greater London.
My mate lives in Ware these days and Stansted Abbots before that, It's pretty decent. I'd rather live around St Albans though, we lived and went to school there in the sixties and seventies. Couldn't afford to live there now?
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Ware's OK, the east side in general is pretty nice. I like St Albans but if I lived there the traffic would drive me nuts, maybe somewhere like Redbourn or Childwick Green would be more to my taste? TBH anywhere in Herts now is pretty pricey as it goes. The North of the county is nice because you have easy access to Cambridge which I prefer generally over going into London. Herts is pretty nice overall if you ignore Stevenage and Hemel.
Re. Bristol - the River (Avon) was not "built into" the city. What does that even mean? The river existed long before the town was built.
You're turning into a pretty good comedian Tyler. "You get to be rich and you live forever? Okay." Hilarious!
I now get it. I thought he was serious! Tyler is a riot!
@@eddihaskell you thought he was serious about what?
@@acushla_music Doing reviews and stuff. I thought this was an informative channel for the past week.
@@eddihaskell the title of the video says react? You thought there was a place in England where residents 'lived forever'? do you take everything literally?
The fruit market in Brighton is fantastic. ;P
Lots of these selections were from Suffolk and the East of England where I grew up. It's alright if you have kids, commute to London etc but there's very little opportunity for young people. I moved to the second city and never looked back When they say people have high income, I think it means that they were already well off and then moved to a nice place.
Also they pronounced Babergh totally wrong, it's said Bay (like where the sea comes in) -ber (like the sound you make when your cold brr) !
Leeds also shares a big music festival with Reading
If you live in Manchester (I don't) kids are virtually born with football boots on. Generations will follow their team like a religon. The only difference is whether you are a Manchester United fan (red and gold) or Manchester City fan (pale blue and white). Its an age old rivalry past down from father to son/daughter. You should react to a few football history and compelations videos as you are a sports lover.
Sr Edmundsbury (Bury St Edmunds) Suffolk was the Burial place & Shrine of St Edmund Martyred King of Anglia & England's first Patron Saint the whole area was extremely wealthy in the middle ages from the production of wool & wollen cloth, present day houses several US Airforce bases.
I live in Maldon and never expected to see my little town on here! 😁
Leeds was massive. Still is. Built on profits from cotton mills, but cloth production moved to India.
That is OXFORD UNIVERSITY with all the spires .... It is IVY that grows on that building ..... LEEDS is over 200 miles north of London .... But good transport for London ..... Manchester is Great .... Outside of most towns in the UK is a lot of countryside .... If I had a choice, I would live in St Ives, Cornwall, the next bay is Carbis Bay and in my opinion the best beach in the whole of the UK .... Paula UK x
You also deserve to go to the Scottish Highlands in August, and go to a wooded area. You'd disappear under a cloud of midges... You'd long for the time you just had one gnat.
Midges are evil!
21:00 a market town is also a call back to the past .. few (if any) market towns have any importance as locale trade hubs and farmers markets any more, calling a town a market town is normally more about what it was than what it is these days.
I live close to Bury St Edmunds they said it wrong and this place is over 1000 years old the cathedral is 1001 years old the history is linked to the St Edmund and abbey gardens is very popular all year around we are one hour away from London and 30 mins by train from Cambridge, Green King is here one of the best beer brewery in uk with so many microbreweries as well here a link to the town there is a good video on UA-cam walking around the town and the cathedral and gardens
My grandmother lived in Bury St Edmunds and I loved the town and spent hours in the Abbey Gardens.
@@Sophie.S.. Bury is a quite town with a great history yes very good for family’s thank you for sharing
Did a real ale crawl around Bury St Edmunds prior to covid. Bloody good! Probably better now than when I was stationed at Honnington in the seventies? Glad the Nutshell's still going.
@@johnp8131 yes bury good place for a good drinking session weather spoons, oaks barn, rose and crown, beer cafe, The Old Cannon Brewery then home good day out 👍👍🍺
@@johnp8131 Lol - glad you got safely back to Honnington after the pub crawl.
Finally, Bristol is a great place! For all you Americans, ‘shire’ at the end of a county name, like Yorkshire, is pronounced formally as ‘sheer’ (Yorksheer), but colloquially as ‘sher’ (Yorksher), with a short, clipped ‘r’ sound at the end, so it doesn’t trail off.
12:08 that's ivy and it's not intentional! It's natural. Lot's of houses have it.
My nana was from Manchester and I get clothes from two little businesses just outside of Manchester and I live in Canada. I’m even friends with some of both businesses staff and owners.
A hart is a male red deer, synonymous with stag and used in contrast to the female hind; its use may now be considered mostly poetic or archaic. The word comes from Middle English hert, from Old English heorot; compare Frisian hart, Dutch hert, German Hirsch, and Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish hjort, all meaning "deer". Heorot is given as the name of Hrothgar's mead hall in the Old English epic Beowulf.
Historically, hart has also been used generically to mean "deer, antelope", as in the royal antelope, which Willem Bosman called "the king of the harts".[1] The word hart was also sometimes used in the past specifically to describe a stag of more than five years.
Small towns in US are usually MILES from anywhere large, in the UK most 'small towns' are no more than an hour from a sizable city. The scale is different.
These are not towns as such but council districts. Hart, for instance, is a whole collection of separate towns in the county of Hampshire. Likewise, East Hertfordshire.
We have enough beautiful places in the UK for us not to be clamouring to live in a select few. However, I have to agree about Salisbury, which is a short drive or bus trip from me. Really lovely place, and friendly, what's not to like?🤪 🙋♀️🇬🇧
Hello Tyler, given that your videos show off a lot of beautiful towns and scenery may I suggest that you use a larger screen for the video and a smaller screen for your narration? No disrespect, but the video would be better and we can still hear and see you.
there plenty of small beautiful small towns throughout the whole of the UK, I live in Lincolnshire & it is a farming place with lots of countryside, plenty of history & not far from the beaches, it is a wonderful place to live.
I was born and bred near Grantham. Nice but boring 😴 I couldn't wait to leave at 16...straight to London...beautiful North London...40 years now
@@juliecobbina2024 I grew up in Liverpool & left for lincolnshire in my 30s & have never looked back, have lived here now for over 20 yrs, couldn't imagine myself ever moving back to city life, I love the peacefulness of it all.
I lived in Maldon for years and would love to go back to live
Rhe buildings are covered in Ivy, it will grow anywhere
This list, while better than most on this subject because of its mix of middle-sized towns and big cities, is still very skewed towards places within commuting distance of London. Of course there are places I would use to leaven this bias. Perhaps Winchester or Weymouth, Truro or Hereford, and York or even Alnwick.