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The poshest county in the UK?

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Eyes98 · 10/04/2025 22:57

Which one county would you say is the outright poshest in the UK? Let’s not use Greater London here, and I know there will be social diversity in all, but which would you say is the poshest overall?
I’m going with Berkshire, darling.😂

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Leafy74 · 12/04/2025 13:19

Delphigirl · 10/04/2025 23:16

Oxfordshire
Nobody smart lives in Surrey

I live in Sury! Im smart.

Floatlikeafeather2 · 12/04/2025 13:14

Calliopespa · 11/04/2025 14:01

To this I would add by way of clarification, no posh person in Oxford would seek to live “ up the Cowley road.” Aberdeen is not the best of Aberdeenshire. Nor would the gentle folk of Hampshire hone in on Southampton. Why, even Jane Austen’s family, living off allowances from a rich relative, had to grit their teeth to move that far down the county. Bath might have been an exception to this at one point.

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? Bath is nowhere near Hampshire!

Queenofthestonage · 12/04/2025 03:10

Bath and North East Somerset

SirDanielBrackley · 12/04/2025 00:19

Eyes98 · 10/04/2025 22:57

Which one county would you say is the outright poshest in the UK? Let’s not use Greater London here, and I know there will be social diversity in all, but which would you say is the poshest overall?
I’m going with Berkshire, darling.😂

The ROYAL County of Berkshire, if you don't mind!

KateArnott · 12/04/2025 00:03

Meredusoleil · 11/04/2025 06:47

Surrey has Croydon in it.
Enough said me thinks!

My Nanna lived in “Croydon in Surrey” many years ago. She never called it just Croydon apparently, it was always “Croydon in Surrey” lol.

valentinka31 · 11/04/2025 23:57

North Yorkshire.

KateArnott · 11/04/2025 23:53

Cotswolds or Sussex

SiobhanSharpe · 11/04/2025 23:40

Eyes98 · 11/04/2025 00:42

Newmarket is Suffolk though isn’t it?

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Oops, you're right. I am in Cambridge itself and Newmarket is quite near by car so it sort of feels like it's in the same county, IYSWIM

Blinkingbother · 11/04/2025 23:11

So, once a week we pop to Granny’s & whilst there the kids look through Country Life and yell out the locations of the houses that take their fancy…. Granny & I are relatively on the same page… Surrey, Hampshire, Kent, Essex (was posh till 1970s, not since), Herts or Berks are out. Either Sussex was once naice but now the previous posh are just snobby & the rest noveau. Pockets of real posh found in varying other locations - the further from a large city (but within reach of a decent market town) the better…. To be fair though in a meritocracy it shouldn’t matter, decent & kind behaviour should.

Jijithecat · 11/04/2025 22:17

Calliopespa · 11/04/2025 14:23

I agree

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I'm curious as to why you consider Dorset to be posh?

SisSuffragette · 11/04/2025 21:59

Smidge001 · 10/04/2025 23:57

Slough isn't in Berkshire, it's in Bucks.

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Slough is definitely Berkshire rather than Bucks

almostbloody50 · 11/04/2025 20:50

@Serencwtchi was going for more Winchester & weybridge. 🤣

0ohLarLar · 11/04/2025 20:33

Rutland, definitely

WhichOneIsPosher · 11/04/2025 20:30

durchwaffles · 10/04/2025 23:24

I assume that’s a joke 😂

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My thoughts exactly! I'd say East Renfrewshire is way posher!

ezi91 · 11/04/2025 20:12

From Bramhall, I wouldn't call people there "posh" just "have money"

Lived in London - well I know it's off limits but definitely the Teddington bunch

Now in mid Sussex, quite a few poshies around

Noodles1234 · 11/04/2025 20:03

Berkshire, especially west Berkshire.

Others in runners up, Surrey, Bucks, Wiltshire and Gloucs.

Serencwtch · 11/04/2025 19:43

almostbloody50 · 10/04/2025 23:19

Surrey and Hampshire would be on my list.

Depends where in the counties - staines, Ashford, stanwell are in Surrey but as rough as the neighboring London boroughs. Aldershot, Farnborough in Hampshire etc are definitely rough & deprived.

There's a huge divide in both counties with pockets of extreme wealth and pockets of quite severe deprivation.

Tessiebear2023 · 11/04/2025 18:17

Calliopespa · 11/04/2025 08:22

I think posh has to have an element of understatement or it isn’t properly posh, it’s just flashy.

So a “ flashy” stately home is fine so long as it needs a new roof! 🤣

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Exactly. I live in Oxford; there is literally nothing more posh than wearing you father or grandfather's patched up blazer or rugger top. Same goes for hand-me-down ballgowns.

Edited to add that I once saw a student cycling down the street wearing spats. They were just part of his 'normal' attire.

Calliopespa · 11/04/2025 14:23

StScholastica · 11/04/2025 14:03

I think Pembrokeshire is beautiful and quietly posh.
As is Dorset.

I agree

Floatlikeafeather2 · 11/04/2025 14:12

Delphigirl · 11/04/2025 13:25

The only person I know in Ford has a 3000 acre estate and sits in the House of Lords… so I’d say it fits the brief

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Corsham has one of those too. I don't think one person, who might or might not be posh (and sitting in the House of Lords doesn't automatically guarantee that) makes the whole place posh.

Fmlgirl · 11/04/2025 14:12

despairdespair · 10/04/2025 23:19

Kent,we have the best schools,and I live in a bubble where the celebrities live in a road that homes are worth 5-7 million quid. Lovely neighbours,so absolutely not bothered.
They are just people who go to same supermarkets and walk their friendly dogs.

I live in Rochester and definitely cannot agree.

Seashor · 11/04/2025 14:11

West Sussex followed by Surrey.

Shetlands · 11/04/2025 14:04

Every county will have its rough/criminal/poverty bits and suburban middle class bits as well as its landed gentry.

I go back to what defines 'posh'? Is it the rich people in Virginia Water/Wentworth Estate, many of whom will be 'new money' or is it the aristos and landed gentry in Norfolk?

StScholastica · 11/04/2025 14:03

I think Pembrokeshire is beautiful and quietly posh.
As is Dorset.

StScholastica · 11/04/2025 14:02

Pieceofpurplesky · 11/04/2025 00:52

Surrey South, Cheshire North

Cheshire South is much posher than Cheshire North. 🥴.