Where on earth did he get this video from!Rather than show Cardiff Castle they show a shopping centre and in Belfast there's a shot of Tower Bridge in LONDON!
I agree completely, I’ve seen others react to these videos and I find them bizarre. They miss all the beauty and focus on the run down stuff. I think it’s narrated by a AI , the English just doesn’t make sense and at times is completely nonsensical
This was a strange video. Included Manchester and Cardiff but left off York, Chester, Liverpool to name very few of many. The voice sounded like AI and they used some rubbish pictures that didn’t really show off the beauty of the cities that were chosen.
Yes, London and York for sure should have been on the list, then we have to remember cities like Durham, Bristol, Lincoln, Norwich etc, that are full of history, cathedrals and castles.
Yes - I could see that they felt they should include at least one city from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but it's an odd list otherwise (no disrespect to the cities included). @@DarrellOakdenPhotography
For some reason the first picture they used for St David’s was the Welsh Senedd (Welsh Parliament) in Cardiff. And 8:56 is clearly Tower Bridge in London with the HMS Belfast in the foreground which should tell you all you need to know about how they got the pictures for their video.
For Belfast, they should have shown the First World War vintage cruiser, HMS Caroline, the last surviving ship that was at the battle of Jutland. And the Titanic museum, which is fantastic architecturally, as well as being a wonderful visit.
Many lovely cities were not mentioned, York being just one of them. And I can't understand how London was not included as it has so many historical buildings etc and is a massively green city with many Royal parks and other parks and green spaces. This video was a rather badly thought out piece of work in my opinion.
Cities in the UK evolved over centuries. Many started off as a river crossing or a gathering place could date back thousands of years. Streets are narrow because many of them like the cities are so old that cars were hundreds of years away in the future. The UK will as much as possible try to preserve its old cities. The car does not even get into the top ten when it comes to changes to city layouts. In fact, most cities are trying to keep cars out as much as possible.
I'm surprised that York wasn't on the list, I think it's gorgeous. I would have swapped it for Manchester, which is exciting and vibrant, but I'd never call it beautiful. The reason that they all have rivers running through them is because they are old! People would have settled near a river to get water for washing and drinking. Over the years settlements joined up to become villages then towns.
I have a Norman castle and Roman walls in my city of Colchester, earliest recorded city in Britain. Founded in AD43 by emperor Claudius. There many more cities equally as nice as these 10.
@@Westcountrynordic True, but no rivers or coastline. And the canals were presumably built (because of the lack of natural transport links), to connect the city to the river Severn etc.. ;-)
I would say Lincoln England is one they missed, it has a beautiful cathedral on top of a hill next to a castle and both can be seen from almost anywhere in the city. The cathedral is also famous for being the tallest building in the world for centuries, being the first to beat the Great Pyramid of Giza. There’s so many old timey streets around that area too.
Yes, Lincoln is a beautiful city for sure, its cathedral and castle are just a small part of what the city has to offer, in the oldest part of Lincoln upon the hill top nearly every building is historic. And a river runs through the lower part of the city with many old buildings still surviving in that area also.
I love Lincoln, the only City in Lincolnshire. It doesn't seem to make enough of these City lists (Maybe because it's a bit out of the way for people to travel to) but it definitely should, it's really beautiful.
@@poppletop8331 ... There are other cities in Lincolnshire such as Grantham, Spalding and Stamford. Stamford is a beautiful place to visit also as it is a very historic city with over 600 listed buildings made of limestone, a Georgian main street, and a traditional street market. Perhaps it's classed as a market town so not classed as an actual city but still a beautiful place to visit. Actually Grantham and Spalding are also classed as Market towns it seems, so I think your statement about Lincoln being the only city is correct.
Tyler, I truly hope you get out into the world at some point because I am just simply amazed at how little you know about seemingly anything outside of the US. And I’m not trying to be insulting but it just is unbelievable to me that you don’t know so many of these cities or anything at all about most of them especially Canterbury England I mean I would’ve thought The Canterbury tales by Chaucer would’ve come to mind when you heard the name but I guess not. I’m a U.S. American myself, btw. Have a great day!
The UK also has venal speculative property developers rampaging with seemingly no restrictions. Especially when laundering dodgy Russian money in the London property market.
@@Shoomer88 listen for fear of looking thick can you tell me what A1 is ? I've never heard of it😮???that is what happens when you live in a village time stops
Edinburgh citizen here. I do admit to taking my surroundings for granted on a daily basis. Though I do enjoy being a tour guide to friends and relatives when they visit. Lots of people tend to forget the city is a coastal city and that we do also have beaches and the sea.
Fellow Edinburgher. I think the whole place, centre centre included, is in need of one big spruce up. Everywhere you look pavements, roads and lots of buildings becoming increasingly shabby and rundown looking. That, and throw in the tagging fad of the last few years and litter everywhere. But I expect my view of this town is echoed up and down the UK in other towns or maybe I'm just getting older and noticing things more.
As a Canadian I was pretty shocked by the things they didn't show. Castle sitting on top of a volcano? Nah, why show that? Holyrood palace and Scottish parliament? Nah. Princes st with the Scott monument, train station and the gardens? Nope. No wonder it was ranked 8th (I expected it to be much higher)
We've got so many rivers in our UK cities because they were crucial for drinking water, farming & transport. When you consider how old our cities are, it makes sense that they were built near a source of water, which would have been invaluable in times gone by. The same can be said for some of the castles too. They were built in locations where the land was fertile & near a water source. Smaller houses were errected around the castle that consisted of the labourers who were working on the construction of the castles. A job that would take any amount of years to complete. The labourers would then end up settling in the houses after the castle's completion & so the area grew. That wasn't always the case of course, but it did happen.
Describing Inverness as "Idyllic and delightful" while showing a view of a street on a council estate, with roadworks happening on one side of it! Yep, I'm afraid the video you're reacting to is effed up, Tyler! 😂
As someone that grew up in the York area, I have to agree. I think it's because outsiders often forget that York is in fact a city, and not a town. Walking around the most popular areas of York doesn't really give the "city feeling"
Hey dude, the reason we have so much water is that before trains in the Industrial Revolution we carried goods about by man-made waterways called canals which connect every city.
What is strange list? Manchester! (I lived there), not York, Wells or Oxford? The pictures are horrible, missing out on the best views. No mention that Edinburgh has a mountain almost within the city and no pic!
To be fair, Oxford was on the list, but I agree that Manchester is an odd choice. If you wanted to select industrial cities, there is much more beauty in Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds. I also agree that the picture selection was very strange, with Edinburgh being a prime example.
I love that they stuck a picture of London’s Tower Bridge in the Belfast section, because their search engine picked up the ship in the photo, HMS Belfast
Julie it depends on who went there. I have been to all the ones you said. I personally liked them all. Even though I was working in them. Not much time for sight seeing but still enjoyed the experience.
Southern Bias? There were only 3 places on the list that class themselves in the south! Unless you’re trying to claim Wales and Cambridge as “south”. 🙄
😂 It’s so annoying isn’t it? Even the expensive railway supposedly connecting the northern cities to the south went as far as Manchester but missed the NE out completely, l sometimes wonder if they know we exist! I know it’s only small but l love Durham too!
I find it funny how envious Tyler is of the castles in the UK. I live in the U.K. and see castles in nearly every city I’ve visited and while they’re spectacular we take them for granted. It’s then lost on everybody.
Living in Nottingham . We are close to many stately homes and historic places , One 1500s stately home in a large parkland , with a lake , and deer herd . The old stables house an industrial museum and cafe . The main house is now a natural history museum . Looking out of my window , i can see woodland . We have roads lined with trees. A main river , smaller rivers and canals . Just up the road from us , is Newstead Abbey . Historic home of Lord Byron . Also close to us is Sherwood Forest . Think Robin Hood .
Honestly I really wonder about who made the original video you watched as I've seen plenty other videos of these places and they represent these places in a much better way. I totally understand that people from the locations shown would feel miffed that there cities haven't been seen in the best way.
Cambridge really is right up there (and most of the top sights there weren't shown) but the list itself was a weird one. How can you NOT inlcude York or Durham, or Stirling?
Your university of Harvard is also in a place called Cambridge (part of Boston). This is because Harvard was created from a bequest by an English clergyman called John Harvard (1607-1638) who was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge University in England. His statue can be found in the grounds of Harvard Campus.
The famous university MIT is also in Cambridge Massachusetts. Arguably Cambridge Massachusetts is more important academically than the city in the English fens (and I'm British, so I don't like to admit this sort of thing).
Notes from a Belfast native. One of the photos in the Belfast section is Tower Bridge, which is in London, but the rest of the segment was accurate. The big white building is Stormont, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Belfast City Hall and Belfast Castle, both mentioned, weren't shown, but you should look them up. Other Belfast landmarks you might like to check out include Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Cave Hill and the Giant's Ring. If you like Oxford, check out Inspector Morse, a murder mystery TV show of the 80s and 90s set in the city, or Endeavour, a more recent prequel series starring the young Morse in Oxford in the 60s and 70s.
My favourite Belfast tourist sights are HMS Caroline and the Titanic. The Big Fish by the Laggan is also great, and the view from the observation deck of the Victoria Square shopping centre is fantastic.
As do cities such as York and Lincoln both having a Cathedral and a Castle and many historic buildings. I think who ever made the video had very limited knowledge of the UK.
Tne Canterbury Tales was required reading when i was at school or at least one of them. It was a common place for pilgrimages in England. the Author Chaucer appears in the film A knights Tale
I once visited Bath, driving down from Manchester and the 10 minute drive through the suburbs showed Bath as the scruffiest city in the U.K. True, the centre of Bath has its Georgian architecture well maintained but not in the suburbs and the main distraction for me was that you had to pay to enter the city centre public park! The roman baths are exquisite though.
As a child, both my parents worked for British Rail. As part of their wages they got free rail travel around Great Britain. We went everywhere when i was a child. Steam trains to Scotland over the Glenfinnian Viaduct and all the way to Inverness. Carriages like on Harry Potter where you get in to the carriage from the platform! Great Britain is amazing. Try watching anything by Sir David Attenborough! I grew up in York. The original capital city in the UK. Stunning city with castles, York Minster, the Roman Walls, Roman architecture, cobbled streets, Wipma Wopma Gate! Betty's Tea Rooms, Barnet's (York's own Amazon), and Clifford's Tower!
The structure/building you wondered why you can drive through is a gate, all cities and big towns were surrounded by walls with gates, many gates still exist many don’t. In my city they were demolished two hundred years or so ago, but a neighbouring town still has one you drive through and still has attached properties either side one I’ve been in as it is a solicitors office.
Hi Tyler, you appear fascinated, that there are so many waterways in England, which connect cities. Permit me to explain: Before the advent of motorised vehicles, and smooth roads, waterways were the only means of transporting heavy goods. They were the arteries of industry. Ancient rivers, (such as the river Lea), weren’t wide enough to accommodate the huge number of barges needed, so canals were dug. Britain’s Industrial Revolution (IR) thrived only because of them. The construction of canals enabled inland coalfields and heavy industries like pottery and metalworking to expand.
Should have expanded this video to 20 or more lovely cities, with better photos. Canterbury Cathedral is in Kent. That old structure there was an ancient gate to the town. Many places still have them. The reason places were built in the first place is because of the rivers plus the castles
I think we have green around our cities because we have something called a greenbelt where we aren't allowed to build further outwards to help nature. At least I think that's the reason, I'm not entirely sure.
You did top UK cities a year ago and top UK towns 8 months ago. Are you going to pretend you haven't seen them before? **sigh** It covered Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff - and you said back then you had never heard of Cardiff! It seems you never "learn" - the thing you claim you want to do. When you are growing up and hear Belfast and wonder where it is, why have you never looked at a map/atlas/globe of the world or read about it? I genuinely wonder about that - why do Americans hear these things but don't research or learn more about them as children, even if not taught at school? No curiosity or...?
If you haven’t already have a look at Reacting to my roots. Similar sort of thing but he is really interested, reads comments and then looks at subjects people have mentioned. I know what you mean about Tyler, think they also have a different meaning for shocked too, surprised maybe but they always seem shocked .
@@michaelprobert4014 The problem is he never learns and seems to make no effort to - not reading Comments where people explain things, not retaining repeated information. He has acted astonished at electric kettles at least four or five times this past year! I have come to the conclusion he never intends to learn, just generating clicks for $$$. As another person said to me "he is here to EARN, not to LEARN". He has several channels, each for a different country, so don't be fooled that he actually cares about the UK. In fact, he threw shade on the UK in one of his Canadian reactions. Some people think he is just trolling us when he pretends to "learn" new things or be surprised by commonplace objects, just to generate Comments - which he has done right here..lol. I feel a bit sorry for the people who put time and effort in to help him, even offering to send him things, and he never reads/responds and he doesn't actually care about whichever country he is pandering to at the time. See Tyler Bucket, Tyler Burger, Tyler Walker .... Even if you watch his videos from a year ago, you will see a different persona. Arrrgh...! I just get wound up by phonies who are conning gullible people.
So glad to see my local city Canterbury down here in Kent on the list. The building that the traffic is driving through is the West Gate its one of the entrance points of this walled city in ancient times.
Regarding your comments about the greenery, Cardiff ha a 'Green lung', a large park starting at the very foot of Cardiff castle and then extending along the green corridor of the River Taff to the very outskirts of the city. Check out a Google satellite map starting at the castle in the city centre going North.
The way you said bath the first time was right , Barf is when you puke x There are now about 4,700 miles of canals and rivers throughout the United Kingdom; 2,700 miles of these are part of the connected system.
Loving the videos. Regarding rivers, most town were built on coasts or rivers for goods and trade routes. Also, bear in mind nowhere in the UK is more than 80 miles away from the coast so there are rivers everywhere.
I live in Canterbury, it has the most pubs in Kent or something like that, multiples per street and it even has a map available for a pub crawl. The arch which cars are driving through is called Westgate, the cathedral is beautiful and is the religious hub of England. I'm glad it reached the list, as it is a true gem. it's a shame it has been hit hard by online shopping and covid as it mainly just pubs and cafes now. If you come to England I recommend Canterbury as it is quaint and small enough to be seen in a few days and is near London (60 miles) so an hour train ride from most airports.
Great reaction! York should have been on this list ! It’s such a beautiful city with so much architecture and also has a Roman wall going around the entire city. There’s also an awful lot of greenery around Manchester City centre and is a great city. A place qualifies to be a city if it has a cathedral
There are 76 cities in the UK, 1,186 towns and 6,116 villages according to official figures. Each have their own characteristics and have evolved and grown over the past 2000+ years - many of which would qualify to be counted within the 'Top 10' beautiful places in the UK. As they were located at a meeting place or location of strategic importance near rivers, on hills, by the sea, by lakes - these provided protection access, food and ease of trade. They've all evolved and changed in response to the passing centuries, responding to historic events and were already established before the industrial revolution brought railways, industry and major road infrastructure and petrol vehicles. We value our building and lands as they are interwoven with our culture, our history which still lives as part of our national identity and who we are.
In the UK, we bring trees and green spaces into the cities in a big way. London has a huge number of parks and green squares. The largest is a deer park. London is planted with so many trees that it falls under the international definition of a forest. London is, in fact, the largest forest in the UK.
Cambridge is one you need to visit to really appreciate the beauty of the architecture and the natural beauty of the river and meadows. so lucky to live in Cambridge
Our cities were built around rivers and canals as that was our means of transporting goods before the introduction of the railway. There are so many other cities that deserved to be on that list
Places started as villages usually around a river, castles were a source of protection and work, so villages and then cities are often built around a castle.
I know it's not a city for a town look at Rye .Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, two miles (three kilometres) from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. An important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederation, it was at the head of an embayment of the English Channel, and almost entirely surrounded by the sea. With chocolate box buildings lot of buildings would fit into this category
Yes, I too put Cambridge at the top of your list. The canals flow through the centre, in Oxford the river flows through the suburbs. I also like the ancient narrow alleys of Cambridge. Your university town in Masachusetts (outside Boston) - guess where its name comes from ?? And Boston is one of my favourite sleepy towns in the Fens (Lincolnshire).
ah my hometown of Canterbury got a shoutout. Always love going back to my family home there. Sadly it's become very expensive so I moved to Suffolk. I hope to return to Canterbury one day but like everywhere in Kent, it's become so unobtainable to purchase property in most places in the South-East.
When talking about Belfast the film showed a photo of Tower Bridge in London which has been reproduced back to front making HMS Belfast appear downriver from the bridge. In contrast, where-as she is moored upriver from the bridge in the Pool of London.
I think Brits do appreciate our history,architecture and beauty but of course when you see things every day it becomes the norm and it’s great watching people like you point out things we take for granted. I recently moved from London to near Canterbury and I love it. This video didn’t do it justice. I’d recommend you check out a video devoted to Canterbury.
A lot of universities arenamed after the city/ place they are located. So historical ly if you build a city you want a fort or castle first to defend against invaders, usually you want it on a hill so you can see the enemy and make it difficult for them to get up to you. You want to be onor near a river/ sea/ lake because the land is fertile and you have a water supply/ food supply. In modern times some of these things can be done artificially. Similar in Europe. Actually the history of ancient London is it was mostly unconquerable because of the river.
If you think of the bigger picture, Castles were predominantly built on a hill side to give them an advantage point when it came to battles. Also near flowing water. So over time as people settled around these castles and churches were also built (or more specifically cathedral’s) and the places expanded over time. It’s natural to find cities that will have some kind of hill nestled inside it. 🙂
My first recolection about Canterbury is "Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chauser, from around 1400 which AFAIR we got in school as school reading. To this day I remember only that it is known as one of the oldest examples of modern English - existing up from 15th century. And first popular story written in vernacular language - English, and not in Latin or French. As English language has 3 stages of development - Anglosaxon languages (5 - 11th century), medieval English (called also "middle English") after Normans conquest by which Anglosaxons languages mixed with French spoken by Normans aristocracy (11th - 15th century) and modern English (up from 15th century). My second recolection about Canterbury is that there is this famous cathedral, one of the first build in UK under the name of St. Augustine of Canterbury - who was a missionary of 6th centrury stationed there by the Pope. A founding figure of English Church. Not to be mixed with St. Augustine of Hippo a Roman teologian from 4-5th century - one of founding fathers of all christianity. Thats my recolections about Canterbury. :)
Hello Tyler, Another aspect of the narrow streets is that many towns converted them to pedestrian streets and this has made huge improvement. And main streets in bigger towns have likewise done away with traffic despite being wider. All in all the majority of UK towns and cities have benefitted enormously by having pedestrian centres. For larger places we have out-of-town "park and ride" facilities; a large car park on the edge of town with regular buses between there and a town centre site. Easy to drive to and leave you car letting the bus driver drive you there without the need to search for parking. Perhaps we can do this because we are not tied to cars as are Americans. And we can cross the road (not motorway) if safe to do so; in fact, we could not operate without being able to cross the road. Shops closely hug each other so moving from one to the other is logical, just nip across the road. Si we walk not drive. I think many of the "problems" Americans see with the UK are that they are not relating the UK to its geographical position. Someone from Florida or Texas says we do not have the essential air conditioning. No, because they are geographically aligned with north Africa when the UK is aligned with Newfoundland. Why have air conditioning for four or five days a year when you can open windows without inspecting bothering you? On the other hand why don't Florida and Texas have heating on for a significant part of year like we do in the UK? The bottom line is that many American are so isolated and insular and think the rest of the world has the same weather, driving conditions, jaywalking law, guns, mega schools with police, etc etc as they do and it comes as a huge surprise that the rest of the world is different (and better!). Sorry Tyler, but we do appreciate your honest commentary. But you are relying of videos which you have to take some trust in and many times these video are simply wrong! One about the best ten UK towns to live in was simply ridiculous - but how can you judge? Keep on Tyler, you are much appreciated.
Finally, you mentioned about towns/cities with mountains right beside. From my wide experience, I would say the best examples of this are in Wales, both South and North. Scotland doesn't have cities in its mountain areas, and in the North of England (next on the list) there ARE mountains nearby, but not as dramatic as in Wales.
During WWII, my mother, then in her late teens and like many of her generation was attracted by the glamour associated with the American GIs. During a trip with her friends to visit her father, a driver on the GWR doing troop movements in England, she was speaking to some GIs who asked where she was from (the accent was a giveaway that she wasn't from England). She replied "I'm Welsh".and received the response from this GI "Where's Welsh ?". That was in the 1940s but by all accounts Yanks have dumbed down even more since then.
Where on earth did he get this video from!Rather than show Cardiff Castle they show a shopping centre and in Belfast there's a shot of Tower Bridge in LONDON!
I agree completely, I’ve seen others react to these videos and I find them bizarre. They miss all the beauty and focus on the run down stuff. I think it’s narrated by a AI , the English just doesn’t make sense and at times is completely nonsensical
Yeah they messed up. HMS Belfast is in the picture.
Not best choices of cities, poorly made and inaccurate.
I detect Chinese English grammar.
The guy that puts these videos together about cities in the UK has some really weird ideas about things and is often inaccurate.
London, York, Bristol, Chester, Durham, Salisbury , Liverpool?, Exeter…………
This was a strange video. Included Manchester and Cardiff but left off York, Chester, Liverpool to name very few of many. The voice sounded like AI and they used some rubbish pictures that didn’t really show off the beauty of the cities that were chosen.
Yes, London and York for sure should have been on the list, then we have to remember cities like Durham, Bristol, Lincoln, Norwich etc, that are full of history, cathedrals and castles.
@@DarrellOakdenPhotographyI agree. Missed out the best parts of Bath and Oxford which are both more stunning than shown here.
Yes - I could see that they felt they should include at least one city from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but it's an odd list otherwise (no disrespect to the cities included). @@DarrellOakdenPhotography
@@glennaustin37 Bath without showing the Roman Baths, Pump Room, The Crescent, Circus, Pulteney St, Pulteney Bridge, the weir, etc, etc....???!
For some reason the first picture they used for St David’s was the Welsh Senedd (Welsh Parliament) in Cardiff.
And 8:56 is clearly Tower Bridge in London with the HMS Belfast in the foreground which should tell you all you need to know about how they got the pictures for their video.
Yes, that Tower Bridge picture confused the hell out of me! I hadn't got around to working out the HMS Belfast explanation!
I'm pretty sure that the scene at 21:58 is actually Oxford (not Cambridge)
Yea, I clocked that, the snapshot was computer generated and it picked up Belfast.
For Belfast, they should have shown the First World War vintage cruiser, HMS Caroline, the last surviving ship that was at the battle of Jutland. And the Titanic museum, which is fantastic architecturally, as well as being a wonderful visit.
You got to 8:56? You're more tolerant than me. I got to 12 seconds. That voice, those weird eyes. Damn.
York is lovely
I was just thinking this. How is York not on the list? Surely it’s #1❤
@@katydaniels508 I'm from London but York should have been in the top three
Many lovely cities were not mentioned, York being just one of them. And I can't understand how London was not included as it has so many historical buildings etc and is a massively green city with many Royal parks and other parks and green spaces. This video was a rather badly thought out piece of work in my opinion.
Cities in the UK evolved over centuries. Many started off as a river crossing or a gathering place could date back thousands of years. Streets are narrow because many of them like the cities are so old that cars were hundreds of years away in the future. The UK will as much as possible try to preserve its old cities. The car does not even get into the top ten when it comes to changes to city layouts. In fact, most cities are trying to keep cars out as much as possible.
I'm surprised that York wasn't on the list, I think it's gorgeous. I would have swapped it for Manchester, which is exciting and vibrant, but I'd never call it beautiful.
The reason that they all have rivers running through them is because they are old! People would have settled near a river to get water for washing and drinking. Over the years settlements joined up to become villages then towns.
When they were talking about belfast they showed a picture of tower bridge in London
Probably because the museum ship HMS Belfast is moored beside it. You can see how serious they took their video.
I have a Norman castle and Roman walls in my city of Colchester, earliest recorded city in Britain. Founded in AD43 by emperor Claudius. There many more cities equally as nice as these 10.
That's a funny looking Belfast, last time I checked tower bridge wasn't in Belfast, and I didn't know that they had their own walkie talkie
But HMS Belfast was in the picture. Looks like a case of Googling Belfast and not checking the results, just chucking them in the video.
Video made in China, methinks.
But Google is blocked in China 🤪@@neuralwarp
The original, not the London based copy. Rather like Sydney Harbour Bridge and the one in either Newcastle or Middlesborough?
Ancient towns were placed where the best resources were, next to the sea, rivers, woods etc.
Uhm... Birmingham!? ;-P
@@AlexanderTheEvenGreater Birmingham has it's canal network
@@Westcountrynordic True, but no rivers or coastline. And the canals were presumably built (because of the lack of natural transport links), to connect the city to the river Severn etc..
;-)
I would say Lincoln England is one they missed, it has a beautiful cathedral on top of a hill next to a castle and both can be seen from almost anywhere in the city. The cathedral is also famous for being the tallest building in the world for centuries, being the first to beat the Great Pyramid of Giza. There’s so many old timey streets around that area too.
Yes, Lincoln is a beautiful city for sure, its cathedral and castle are just a small part of what the city has to offer, in the oldest part of Lincoln upon the hill top nearly every building is historic. And a river runs through the lower part of the city with many old buildings still surviving in that area also.
Agreed re Lincoln. It’s lovely.
I love Lincoln, the only City in Lincolnshire. It doesn't seem to make enough of these City lists (Maybe because it's a bit out of the way for people to travel to) but it definitely should, it's really beautiful.
@@poppletop8331 ... There are other cities in Lincolnshire such as Grantham, Spalding and Stamford. Stamford is a beautiful place to visit also as it is a very historic city with over 600 listed buildings made of limestone, a Georgian main street, and a traditional street market. Perhaps it's classed as a market town so not classed as an actual city but still a beautiful place to visit. Actually Grantham and Spalding are also classed as Market towns it seems, so I think your statement about Lincoln being the only city is correct.
None of the other places mentioned are cities, they're all towns.
Tyler, I truly hope you get out into the world at some point because I am just simply amazed at how little you know about seemingly anything outside of the US. And I’m not trying to be insulting but it just is unbelievable to me that you don’t know so many of these cities or anything at all about most of them especially Canterbury England I mean I would’ve thought The Canterbury tales by Chaucer would’ve come to mind when you heard the name but I guess not. I’m a U.S. American myself, btw. Have a great day!
Guess what Tyler ? We have trees and hills in the UK !!
A Positive Plethora and Preponderance of them
His point is that because the UK is so small geographically, nature is that much closer to cities.
Never far from countryside here in the UK!
Wait...what?! 😅
The UK also has venal speculative property developers rampaging with seemingly no restrictions. Especially when laundering dodgy Russian money in the London property market.
The photos in this video do not always show these cities to their best advantage.
Or indeed the city they are talking about ...The Belfast at Tower Bridge for example.
It's what happen when you use AI to create your videos. The channel is really bad for it.
Making up words like historicity 😂
@@Shoomer88 listen for fear of looking thick can you tell me what A1 is ? I've never heard of it😮???that is what happens when you live in a village time stops
@@kathryndunn9142AI - Artificial Intelligence. People are using it to create UA-cam videos.
I live in Edinburgh ...but not sure those shots did our beautiful city justice!! You'll need to visit!
he didnt use good shots in most of them tbh and some where even shot in the 80s and 90s going by the cars in the shots
What's Edinburgh doing down in 8th, and behind Belfast.
Peculiar list.
Edinburgh citizen here. I do admit to taking my surroundings for granted on a daily basis. Though I do enjoy being a tour guide to friends and relatives when they visit. Lots of people tend to forget the city is a coastal city and that we do also have beaches and the sea.
I'm form Austria and did a little UK Trip before Covid. Edinburgh was my favorite City in Europe so far. IMO it beats Paris and esp. London by alot.
Fellow Edinburgher. I think the whole place, centre centre included, is in need of one big spruce up. Everywhere you look pavements, roads and lots of buildings becoming increasingly shabby and rundown looking. That, and throw in the tagging fad of the last few years and litter everywhere. But I expect my view of this town is echoed up and down the UK in other towns or maybe I'm just getting older and noticing things more.
Many folk also forget that London is a coastal city, coast defined as anywhere that has a tide or tidal river.
As a Canadian I was pretty shocked by the things they didn't show. Castle sitting on top of a volcano? Nah, why show that? Holyrood palace and Scottish parliament? Nah. Princes st with the Scott monument, train station and the gardens? Nope. No wonder it was ranked 8th (I expected it to be much higher)
Although it got a mention, Edinburgh Castle was not shown, and it is a wonderful castle in an outstanding position over the city.
We've got so many rivers in our UK cities because they were crucial for drinking water, farming & transport.
When you consider how old our cities are, it makes sense that they were built near a source of water, which would have been invaluable in times gone by.
The same can be said for some of the castles too. They were built in locations where the land was fertile & near a water source. Smaller houses were errected around the castle that consisted of the labourers who were working on the construction of the castles. A job that would take any amount of years to complete. The labourers would then end up settling in the houses after the castle's completion & so the area grew.
That wasn't always the case of course, but it did happen.
Depends on the reason for the castle - Edinburgh Castle is on top of a volcano, Stirling Castle is on a hill.
@@charlestaylor3027 - Yep. As I said, it wasn't always the case with castles, but something that happened.
They didn’t mention the Royal Crescent in Bath - it’s amazing!
Bath is always the first place I think of when these videos pop up but it’s never on there 🤣
My mistake. It’s second in this list. York and bath are my top most beautiful places in the uk
Bath is incredibly beautiful - well worth a visit!
Describing Inverness as "Idyllic and delightful" while showing a view of a street on a council estate, with roadworks happening on one side of it! Yep, I'm afraid the video you're reacting to is effed up, Tyler! 😂
Those fluoro witches hats were so quaint!
@@nolajoy7759 Simply enchanting! 🤣
Pretty sure that was London's Tower Bridge masquerading as being in Belfast, too!
@jamesdignanmusic2765 It was. I think they must have just done a search for photos of Belfast, and one came up of HMS Belfast by Tower Bridge!
@@andybaker2456 That makes sense. I couldn't think why it would have been there!
Surprised York wasn't on the list
They put Manchester in but left out York something sadly wrong with that.
You read my mind@@georgeallan2290
Exactly. Putting Manchester on thee list, and omitting York, Chester and few others is a bit strange.
Yeah, I was coming here to swap out Manchester for York.
As someone that grew up in the York area, I have to agree. I think it's because outsiders often forget that York is in fact a city, and not a town. Walking around the most popular areas of York doesn't really give the "city feeling"
Hey dude, the reason we have so much water is that before trains in the Industrial Revolution we carried goods about by man-made waterways called canals which connect every city.
What is strange list? Manchester! (I lived there), not York, Wells or Oxford? The pictures are horrible, missing out on the best views. No mention that Edinburgh has a mountain almost within the city and no pic!
To be fair, Oxford was on the list, but I agree that Manchester is an odd choice. If you wanted to select industrial cities, there is much more beauty in Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds. I also agree that the picture selection was very strange, with Edinburgh being a prime example.
I live in kent and Canterbury is 30 minutes away and always gets forgotten with the university as well
I love that they stuck a picture of London’s Tower Bridge in the Belfast section, because their search engine picked up the ship in the photo, HMS Belfast
A bit of a Southern bias, no Chester, Ripon, York or Newcastle. unbeliveable
Julie it depends on who went there. I have been to all the ones you said. I personally liked them all. Even though I was working in them. Not much time for sight seeing but still enjoyed the experience.
Southern Bias? There were only 3 places on the list that class themselves in the south! Unless you’re trying to claim Wales and Cambridge as “south”. 🙄
😂 It’s so annoying isn’t it? Even the expensive railway supposedly connecting the northern cities to the south went as far as Manchester but missed the NE out completely, l sometimes wonder if they know we exist! I know it’s only small but l love Durham too!
@@hydroankyCambridge is in the South…
As someone from Newcastle, it’s really nothing special, good vibes, nice people, but there’s not much here
I find it funny how envious Tyler is of the castles in the UK. I live in the U.K. and see castles in nearly every city I’ve visited and while they’re spectacular we take them for granted. It’s then lost on everybody.
I'm hoping chester as it a beautiful city. No York no chester 😮. You want a good castle. It's Conway I did think Canterbury was beautiful
I would give Bath first place but as always I’m surprised Winchester is not on the list !
Living in Nottingham . We are close to many stately homes and historic places , One 1500s stately home in a large parkland , with a lake , and deer herd . The old stables house an industrial museum and cafe . The main house is now a natural history museum . Looking out of my window , i can see woodland . We have roads lined with trees. A main river , smaller rivers and canals . Just up the road from us , is Newstead Abbey . Historic home of Lord Byron . Also close to us is Sherwood Forest . Think Robin Hood .
Honestly I really wonder about who made the original video you watched as I've seen plenty other videos of these places and they represent these places in a much better way. I totally understand that people from the locations shown would feel miffed that there cities haven't been seen in the best way.
And many will be miffed that their cities weren't on the list at all!
Cambridge really is right up there (and most of the top sights there weren't shown) but the list itself was a weird one. How can you NOT inlcude York or Durham, or Stirling?
Your university of Harvard is also in a place called Cambridge (part of Boston). This is because Harvard was created from a bequest by an English clergyman called John Harvard (1607-1638) who was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge University in England. His statue can be found in the grounds of Harvard Campus.
The famous university MIT is also in Cambridge Massachusetts. Arguably Cambridge Massachusetts is more important academically than the city in the English fens (and I'm British, so I don't like to admit this sort of thing).
I personally would've included Newcastle and York in this list, visited both and they're stunning.
I don't know Newcastle - but can't understand the omission of York at all!
York definitely should have been on that list , you can walk round the city on the castle walls and it has so much to see you should check out a video
In the UK the streets are usually a lot older than vehicular transport!
Notes from a Belfast native. One of the photos in the Belfast section is Tower Bridge, which is in London, but the rest of the segment was accurate. The big white building is Stormont, seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Belfast City Hall and Belfast Castle, both mentioned, weren't shown, but you should look them up. Other Belfast landmarks you might like to check out include Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Cave Hill and the Giant's Ring.
If you like Oxford, check out Inspector Morse, a murder mystery TV show of the 80s and 90s set in the city, or Endeavour, a more recent prequel series starring the young Morse in Oxford in the 60s and 70s.
My favourite Belfast tourist sights are HMS Caroline and the Titanic. The Big Fish by the Laggan is also great, and the view from the observation deck of the Victoria Square shopping centre is fantastic.
Missed out Newcastle, with all the bridges across the Tyne, Georgian city centre, and it has a castle.
As do cities such as York and Lincoln both having a Cathedral and a Castle and many historic buildings. I think who ever made the video had very limited knowledge of the UK.
Tne Canterbury Tales was required reading when i was at school or at least one of them. It was a common place for pilgrimages in England. the Author Chaucer appears in the film A knights Tale
should look up The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387-1400.
That's an irresponsible suggestion. Tyler reacting to Chaucer would just crash UA-cam.
I once visited Bath, driving down from Manchester and the 10 minute drive through the suburbs showed Bath as the scruffiest city in the U.K. True, the centre of Bath has its Georgian architecture well maintained but not in the suburbs and the main distraction for me was that you had to pay to enter the city centre public park! The roman baths are exquisite though.
Love your videos Tyler!
As a child, both my parents worked for British Rail. As part of their wages they got free rail travel around Great Britain. We went everywhere when i was a child. Steam trains to Scotland over the Glenfinnian Viaduct and all the way to Inverness. Carriages like on Harry Potter where you get in to the carriage from the platform!
Great Britain is amazing. Try watching anything by Sir David Attenborough!
I grew up in York. The original capital city in the UK. Stunning city with castles, York Minster, the Roman Walls, Roman architecture, cobbled streets, Wipma Wopma Gate! Betty's Tea Rooms, Barnet's (York's own Amazon), and Clifford's Tower!
Funny that Tyler commented on Cambridge's narrow streets - most of the city centre is either one-way or fully pedestrianised.
You need to check out YORK (in Yorkshire, England) .... A stunning beautiful place very rich in history, including the Vikings .... Paula x UK
The structure/building you wondered why you can drive through is a gate, all cities and big towns were surrounded by walls with gates, many gates still exist many don’t. In my city they were demolished two hundred years or so ago, but a neighbouring town still has one you drive through and still has attached properties either side one I’ve been in as it is a solicitors office.
Hi Tyler, you appear fascinated, that there are so many waterways in England, which connect cities. Permit me to explain:
Before the advent of motorised vehicles, and smooth roads, waterways were the only means of transporting heavy goods. They were the arteries of industry. Ancient rivers, (such as the river Lea), weren’t wide enough to accommodate the huge number of barges needed, so canals were dug. Britain’s Industrial Revolution (IR) thrived only because of them.
The construction of canals enabled inland coalfields and heavy industries like pottery and metalworking to expand.
Some of the "Belfast" photos were from London!! 🤦♂
Tyler i would like to see a video of you and your family (enjoying) visiting our cities please. Thanks for sharing.
Should have expanded this video to 20 or more lovely cities, with better photos. Canterbury Cathedral is in Kent. That old structure there was an ancient gate to the town. Many places still have them. The reason places were built in the first place is because of the rivers plus the castles
I think we have green around our cities because we have something called a greenbelt where we aren't allowed to build further outwards to help nature. At least I think that's the reason, I'm not entirely sure.
Supposed to. The Conservatives have been trying to obfuscate the difference between building on green field sites and green belt sites.
You did top UK cities a year ago and top UK towns 8 months ago. Are you going to pretend you haven't seen them before? **sigh** It covered Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff - and you said back then you had never heard of Cardiff! It seems you never "learn" - the thing you claim you want to do. When you are growing up and hear Belfast and wonder where it is, why have you never looked at a map/atlas/globe of the world or read about it? I genuinely wonder about that - why do Americans hear these things but don't research or learn more about them as children, even if not taught at school? No curiosity or...?
If you haven’t already have a look at Reacting to my roots. Similar sort of thing but he is really interested, reads comments and then looks at subjects people have mentioned. I know what you mean about Tyler, think they also have a different meaning for shocked too, surprised maybe but they always seem shocked .
Give him a break, he isn't doing a test , he is just learning in his own time.
@@michaelprobert4014 The problem is he never learns and seems to make no effort to - not reading Comments where people explain things, not retaining repeated information. He has acted astonished at electric kettles at least four or five times this past year! I have come to the conclusion he never intends to learn, just generating clicks for $$$. As another person said to me "he is here to EARN, not to LEARN". He has several channels, each for a different country, so don't be fooled that he actually cares about the UK. In fact, he threw shade on the UK in one of his Canadian reactions. Some people think he is just trolling us when he pretends to "learn" new things or be surprised by commonplace objects, just to generate Comments - which he has done right here..lol. I feel a bit sorry for the people who put time and effort in to help him, even offering to send him things, and he never reads/responds and he doesn't actually care about whichever country he is pandering to at the time. See Tyler Bucket, Tyler Burger, Tyler Walker .... Even if you watch his videos from a year ago, you will see a different persona. Arrrgh...! I just get wound up by phonies who are conning gullible people.
So glad to see my local city Canterbury down here in Kent on the list. The building that the traffic is driving through is the West Gate its one of the entrance points of this walled city in ancient times.
Regarding your comments about the greenery, Cardiff ha a 'Green lung', a large park starting at the very foot of Cardiff castle and then extending along the green corridor of the River Taff to the very outskirts of the city. Check out a Google satellite map starting at the castle in the city centre going North.
The way you said bath the first time was right , Barf is when you puke x
There are now about 4,700 miles of canals and rivers throughout the United Kingdom; 2,700 miles of these are part of the connected system.
Loving the videos. Regarding rivers, most town were built on coasts or rivers for goods and trade routes. Also, bear in mind nowhere in the UK is more than 80 miles away from the coast so there are rivers everywhere.
I live in Canterbury, it has the most pubs in Kent or something like that, multiples per street and it even has a map available for a pub crawl. The arch which cars are driving through is called Westgate, the cathedral is beautiful and is the religious hub of England. I'm glad it reached the list, as it is a true gem. it's a shame it has been hit hard by online shopping and covid as it mainly just pubs and cafes now. If you come to England I recommend Canterbury as it is quaint and small enough to be seen in a few days and is near London (60 miles) so an hour train ride from most airports.
Oxford is also home to the Mini motor car - it was invented here!
Great reaction! York should have been on this list ! It’s such a beautiful city with so much architecture and also has a Roman wall going around the entire city. There’s also an awful lot of greenery around Manchester City centre and is a great city. A place qualifies to be a city if it has a cathedral
I used to work in Oxford. I would often go in half an hour early, so I could walk around enjoying the architecture.
There are 76 cities in the UK, 1,186 towns and 6,116 villages according to official figures. Each have their own characteristics and have evolved and grown over the past 2000+ years - many of which would qualify to be counted within the 'Top 10' beautiful places in the UK.
As they were located at a meeting place or location of strategic importance near rivers, on hills, by the sea, by lakes - these provided protection access, food and ease of trade. They've all evolved and changed in response to the passing centuries, responding to historic events and were already established before the industrial revolution brought railways, industry and major road infrastructure and petrol vehicles. We value our building and lands as they are interwoven with our culture, our history which still lives as part of our national identity and who we are.
In the UK, we bring trees and green spaces into the cities in a big way. London has a huge number of parks and green squares. The largest is a deer park. London is planted with so many trees that it falls under the international definition of a forest. London is, in fact, the largest forest in the UK.
Cambridge is one you need to visit to really appreciate the beauty of the architecture and the natural beauty of the river and meadows. so lucky to live in Cambridge
Here up North we always say London is a nice place to come from !
A picture of Tower Bridge in London to accompany descriptions of Belfast?
This is where googling images lets content creators down. The ship in the Tower Bridge picture is the HMS Belfast.
Bath in respect is a little rough unless you stick to the small selection of tourist spots. I would not even put it in my top 20
Our cities were built around rivers and canals as that was our means of transporting goods before the introduction of the railway.
There are so many other cities that deserved to be on that list
York? Ripon? Winchester? Lincoln? Newcastle? Chester? and innumerable others
Places started as villages usually around a river, castles were a source of protection and work, so villages and then cities are often built around a castle.
You should visit these castles over here and do a video, would be so much fun.
I know it's not a city for a town look at Rye .Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, two miles (three kilometres) from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. An important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederation, it was at the head of an embayment of the English Channel, and almost entirely surrounded by the sea. With chocolate box buildings lot of buildings would fit into this category
Don't forget the American Museum & Gardens just outside of Bath
What about York which also deserves a mention?
Usually, cities and roads grew up around castles, not vice versa. But Stonehenge was built beside an ancient waggonway.
Yes, I too put Cambridge at the top of your list.
The canals flow through the centre, in Oxford the river flows through the suburbs.
I also like the ancient narrow alleys of Cambridge.
Your university town in Masachusetts (outside Boston) - guess where its name comes from ??
And Boston is one of my favourite sleepy towns in the Fens (Lincolnshire).
ah my hometown of Canterbury got a shoutout. Always love going back to my family home there. Sadly it's become very expensive so I moved to Suffolk. I hope to return to Canterbury one day but like everywhere in Kent, it's become so unobtainable to purchase property in most places in the South-East.
9:00 That's Tower Bridge in London, not Belfast. They must have googled Belfast and that picture came up because that ship is called HMS Belfast.
When talking about Belfast the film showed a photo of Tower Bridge in London which has been reproduced back to front making HMS Belfast appear downriver from the bridge. In contrast, where-as she is moored upriver from the bridge in the Pool of London.
Are my eyes deceiving me ?, has Tower bridge been relocated to Belfast. A confusion caused I guess by HMS Belfast in the foreground.
I think Brits do appreciate our history,architecture and beauty but of course when you see things every day it becomes the norm and it’s great watching people like you point out things we take for granted. I recently moved from London to near Canterbury and I love it. This video didn’t do it justice. I’d recommend you check out a video devoted to Canterbury.
Yay! I'm moving to Canterbury in a month! So much to look forward to 😊
A lot of universities arenamed after the city/ place they are located. So historical ly if you build a city you want a fort or castle first to defend against invaders, usually you want it on a hill so you can see the enemy and make it difficult for them to get up to you. You want to be onor near a river/ sea/ lake because the land is fertile and you have a water supply/ food supply. In modern times some of these things can be done artificially. Similar in Europe.
Actually the history of ancient London is it was mostly unconquerable because of the river.
It’s very common in the uk with city’s being surrounded by fields or mountains at least 10 mins away from another town
i go to uni in canterbury and was hoping it would make the list cause its so pretty and awesome and full of history
One of the major differences, is that we don’t build cities on a grid system. Because they go so far back and have just developed organically
Number 3 the opening picture is Canterbury Cathedral
I'm amazed, Tyler has finally learned something...how to correctly pronounce Edinburgh!!
What you was looking was cantebury cathedral
If you think of the bigger picture, Castles were predominantly built on a hill side to give them an advantage point when it came to battles. Also near flowing water. So over time as people settled around these castles and churches were also built (or more specifically cathedral’s) and the places expanded over time. It’s natural to find cities that will have some kind of hill nestled inside it. 🙂
My son went to University in Bath and his graduation ceremony was held in the Abbey Church which was shown in the video.
They show St David's shopping centre in Cardiff when talking about the City of St David's
Look up Bristol UK
What a fabulous reaction to some of our historic cities. Thank you Tyler for being you. Great job my friend
Stormont was the big beautiful building in Belfast. It's now used for the Northern Ireland assembly.
My first recolection about Canterbury is "Canterbury tales" by Geoffrey Chauser, from around 1400 which AFAIR we got in school as school reading. To this day I remember only that it is known as one of the oldest examples of modern English - existing up from 15th century. And first popular story written in vernacular language - English, and not in Latin or French. As English language has 3 stages of development - Anglosaxon languages (5 - 11th century), medieval English (called also "middle English") after Normans conquest by which Anglosaxons languages mixed with French spoken by Normans aristocracy (11th - 15th century) and modern English (up from 15th century). My second recolection about Canterbury is that there is this famous cathedral, one of the first build in UK under the name of St. Augustine of Canterbury - who was a missionary of 6th centrury stationed there by the Pope. A founding figure of English Church. Not to be mixed with St. Augustine of Hippo a Roman teologian from 4-5th century - one of founding fathers of all christianity. Thats my recolections about Canterbury. :)
Hello Tyler, Another aspect of the narrow streets is that many towns converted them to pedestrian streets and this has made huge improvement. And main streets in bigger towns have likewise done away with traffic despite being wider. All in all the majority of UK towns and cities have benefitted enormously by having pedestrian centres. For larger places we have out-of-town "park and ride" facilities; a large car park on the edge of town with regular buses between there and a town centre site. Easy to drive to and leave you car letting the bus driver drive you there without the need to search for parking. Perhaps we can do this because we are not tied to cars as are Americans. And we can cross the road (not motorway) if safe to do so; in fact, we could not operate without being able to cross the road. Shops closely hug each other so moving from one to the other is logical, just nip across the road. Si we walk not drive.
I think many of the "problems" Americans see with the UK are that they are not relating the UK to its geographical position. Someone from Florida or Texas says we do not have the essential air conditioning. No, because they are geographically aligned with north Africa when the UK is aligned with Newfoundland. Why have air conditioning for four or five days a year when you can open windows without inspecting bothering you? On the other hand why don't Florida and Texas have heating on for a significant part of year like we do in the UK? The bottom line is that many American are so isolated and insular and think the rest of the world has the same weather, driving conditions, jaywalking law, guns, mega schools with police, etc etc as they do and it comes as a huge surprise that the rest of the world is different (and better!). Sorry Tyler, but we do appreciate your honest commentary. But you are relying of videos which you have to take some trust in and many times these video are simply wrong! One about the best ten UK towns to live in was simply ridiculous - but how can you judge? Keep on Tyler, you are much appreciated.
Finally, you mentioned about towns/cities with mountains right beside.
From my wide experience, I would say the best examples of this are in Wales, both South and North.
Scotland doesn't have cities in its mountain areas, and in the North of England (next on the list) there ARE mountains nearby, but not as dramatic as in Wales.
During WWII, my mother, then in her late teens and like many of her generation was attracted by the glamour associated with the American GIs. During a trip with her friends to visit her father, a driver on the GWR doing troop movements in England, she was speaking to some GIs who asked where she was from (the accent was a giveaway that she wasn't from England). She replied "I'm Welsh".and received the response from this GI "Where's Welsh ?". That was in the 1940s but by all accounts Yanks have dumbed down even more since then.
What was Tower Bridge doing in belfast or are my eyes going !
In Canterbury the thing in the middle of the road was an ancient city gate