Your favourite English towns?

[Return of the Rev]

Crantock in cornwall had a couple of pubs opposite each other the albion and the seagull,fav place as a youngster,names have changed now

 

[mona]

Alnwick Northumberland
Southwold Suffolk
Lyme Regis Dorset
Upton on Severn Worcs
Richmond Yorkshire

 

[NUFC1892]

Berwick, Northumberland.
Matlock, Derbyshire.
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.
Wetherby, Yorkshire.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Nobody's yet mentioned the fair and beautiful city of Lichfield.

 

[16bha]

Bath
Lyme Regis
Padstow
Cerne Abbas, Dorset (really a village)
Edinburgh (sorry not English)
Monmouth (sorry not English)
Sherborne, Dorset

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

As a student of it's University I can confirm Winchester is lovely.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

glad to see bradford on avon is mentioned more than once.. top place.
arundel is also a personal fav...
shere in surrey i recall yrs ago as being rather fab.
bakewell i thought was great...
and...for its views and hilly bits.. adore torquay.
bethgelert ( hm.. spelling prob wrong) in wales was weird but pretty...

 

[NMH]

Shamefully ignorant of most parts of England, but if I had to live in England and didn't live in Brighton, I'm pretty sure I'd live in... Shoreham

Yours truly lived there, which is why it's now highly desirable real estate. The main coast road goes through it sadly, but it's got a nice town centre - the pub next to the footbridge has good food and brilliant river views from the conservatory. The big pub over the bridge to the lancing/shm beach side has reasonably good live music too.
A bit too densely populated now, in my view, and with the flyover and coast roads being so slow going now - I have to think there are better places. For proximity to Brighton it's okay at about 6 miles straight along the coast, or about 14 minutes by train.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

bethgelert ( hm.. spelling prob wrong) in wales was weird but pretty...

Beddgelert.

Don't forget Machynlleth.

 

[Brian Potter]

Maybe I'm thinking of Sheringham. I like that part of the world anyway.

Got to agree with you about Wells. Cromer is a dive of the first order. Some of Sheringham is ok, but would not call it a favourite town. Also around that area is the rather nice (but pricey) Georgian town of Holt. Avoid Kings Lynn like the plague.

 

[jevs]

Beddgelert.

Ahhhh the fable of the master who killed his faithful hound after he thought it had killed his baby when all the poor hound was doing was protecting it from a wolf.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Arundel, Sussex
Castleton, Derbyshire
Portreath
Corfe Castle
St Ives

 

[Stat Brother]

Glad to see Dorset finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Lyme, Charmouth, even Bridport has it's charms, just.
Think Cornwall but only 2 hours away.

I was 'loving' Arundel, just the other day.
My train of thought went along the lines of:-
'what would an American think, driving up past McDonalds, cresting the hill, and there is a bloody great big, 1000 year old, castle in front of you'.
Plus it is where I proposed to Wifey.

 

[ryeseagull]

Rye isn't as quaint as it once was. I always feel a bit sad when I return there. I grew up there in the 80s and 90s.

My vote is for Westerham in West Kent.

 

[BHAryan]

Stoke is a wonderful place. So is leeds and bermondsey

 

[Beach Hut]

Stratford-upon-Avon

 

[sams dad]

Dunster
Hay-on-Wye
Hawes

 

[pauli cee]

always thought about moving to canterbury as a young'un, guess ive grown up now....

 

[16bha]

Dunster
Hay-on-Wye
Hawes

Never been to Hay on Wye, but going to the Book Festival in June, so look forward to checking it out.

 

[DerbyGull]

Hartington, Hope Valley Derbyshire. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Inn