Top 5 Best Villages and Towns in the UK

[Plastic-Fantastic]

Five is a hell of a limitation.

I guess I'm not allowed to add:-

Llangynog / Pennant Melangell, Powys
Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh
Hexham, Northumberland
Broadstairs, Kent
Thaxted, Essex

Or Telscombe Village, where I once lived.

If Telscombe Village had a tiny, front room style pub with one pump it wouId be a perfect English village. Although it's beauty is that no one ever goes there I suppose and a pub would change that!

My Great Uncle supposedly once walked down the (long since collapsed) tunnel that runs from under the churchyard to the sea.

 

[maresfield seagull]

Brighton, Falmer( has to be the best village) for obvious reasons. Llanwrst, piddlecombe, and Puddletown.

DOH missed this mention for Falmer

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Bray (surrey) - some amazing resturants and a beautiful village

Do you mean Bray in Berkshire? A village of 4,600 with a total of 7 Michelin stars.

 

[tinycowboy]

Sussex-wise, I'd go Amberley, Lewes, Burwash, Litlington, Wisborough Green.

 

[Soulman]

Pleshey (Essex)
Castleton (Derbyshire)
Lavernham (Suffolk)
Clovelly (Devon)
Clare (Suffolk)

 

[glasfryn]

Cheltenham
Shrewsbury
Pevensey
Arundel
Wakefield

 

[BN9 BHA]

Pleshey (Essex)
Castleton (Derbyshire)
Lavernham (Suffolk)
Clovelly (Devon)
Clare (Suffolk)

Good call for clovelly well worth the visit, love the waterfall onto the beach

 

[HalifaxSeagull]

Excluding the obvious brighton...

Ilkley (where I lived from 5yrs)
Harrogate - top posh totty, lovely parks, restaurant and bars etc
Whitby - nice views and cracking fish an chips!
Woolacombe (and surrounding) - has a brilliant 'learn to surf' stag do there...
Sheffield - not a town I know, but had 4 great years there at uni, great for mountain biking in Peaks too...

 

[doogie004]

What, with bloody A272 running through it? Immediately strikes it off any "best" list.

Clearly never been

 

[somerset]

plenty of nice villages where you live somerset, very nice part of the country.

Indeed, dozens, I haven't included them because they are busy enough in the summer months....I cycled to Axbridge only this last Sunday....near Cheddar......its a real old school village square place, several great pubs.....

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

1. Arundel, West Sussex
2. Corfe Castle, Dorset
3. Cornwall (all of it)
4. Caswell, The Mumbles, Wales
5. Lake District (all of it)

 

[goldstone]

Clearly never been

I have. A number of times. Any village with a busy "A" road running through it cannot, in my opinion, qualify as "best". Noise, pollution, danger of kids running into the road.

That's the beauty of a village like Horsted Keynes. On the back roads and therefore limited through traffic, plus a village green, two pubs and a shop.