Following the 'what UK places weird you out', what places ground you?

The Lake District brings me such joy, in particular a house we visit on Coniston Water, the garden swoops directly into the lake and being on the water on my paddleboard makes my heart sing like no other place💚

Driving just off the m6 to the Lake District I reach a point where I just say “ahhh”
and enjoy the views and start to chill.

Three Cliffs Beach Gower.
Anywhere in trees and flowers

Snowdonia - used to go out of season and walk for miles. Beautiful scenery

Sheringham, Norfolk. The coastal walk towards Weybourne, and Sheringham Park, especially.

The beach. The sea makes me feel like I can breathe properly. It refreshes me, clears my brain and re-sets me. Any weather. In fact, bad weather is normally more enjoyable because I’m not trying to keep out of the sun and it’s peaceful. I just wrap up warm and take a hot drink.

But not any water. Lakes, streams, rivers etc are nice, but don’t have the same effect at all. It has to be the sea.

The Lake District is my happy place

Browsing the shelves in Barter Books is like a little bit of heaven on earth for me.

I live in a pretty, semi-rural place and love it, but I really love central London. Like the poster above, I love the hustle and bustle and feel completely energised after a trip in. Luckily, we’re not too far away.

Seeing the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, especially when coming into the city from the south west. I was born about half a mile away and grew up less than 5 miles away.
Also Calgary beach on the Isle of Mull. Just a beach- no shops or amusements just sheep grazing.

If ever you're near Hartlepool there's a great second hand bookshop (sells other vintage stuff etc) called Needful things. It's near the Church that's now a gallery and tourist information centre. Church square. Ds1 loves going when he's home. We live on the coast near Hartlepool.

Where are you @JellieT0tz ? I love the coast, the lakes but also woodland. There's a huge dene near us so we have the best of both.

Up high! I love a good viewpoint, there is something so indescribable about sitting watching a sunrise, from anywhere in the world.

Beautiful Nidd Gorge in North Yorkshire

Central London - especially Soho, Mayfair, St James’s, Marylebone, Fitzrovia. There are so many people and it’s so busy - and you can jump on a bus or a tube, turn a corner and you’re in a different area. Any problem I have gets lost in the crowd. I only live 3 miles south of the centre but would love to live right in the middle of it all. Also (completely the other end of the spectrum) the New Forest

Could someone point me in the direction of the original thread OP mentions (places that weird you out)?

Certainly breathing deeper getting back to the train station in Durham😂 since when were train stations built on the top of a hill

There’s a famous chapter in The Wind in The Willows where they’re walking in the snow and Mole catches a tantalizing whiff of his old home, calling him back…

I was driving across the city where I was born, hadn’t been there for about 30 years, we’d always used the bus, but I started to catch glimpses of places I half-recognised, the parade of shops where my lovely DGM had taken me as a child, the playing fields we’d walk past. Through more recent building work I was able to drive straight to her front gate.
Atavistic memories. Or something…

Most of Northumberland , Durham, North Yorkshire and Cornwall, especially the coastal areas. I can't say why but they do.

Woodland.
Groves
Springs
Waterfalls
Where woodland meets pasture
Lakes surrounded by trees
Shorelines
Old orchards
Old formal gardens at night, with statues, mature planting, trees and lighting.
Plus a very special secret place that I'm trespassing when I go there, but it is full of magic.

Much hadham

Also one of my favourite magical
places along with the top of Portland overlooking Weymouth, Mevagissy
and the Wicklow mountains.

The Gower coast and the Firth of Clyde.
My DH, however, gets the same feeling from a place mentioned in the other thread, which, while I'm past being weirded out, often leaves me unsettled.

@JellieT0tz I know Redcar very well so totally get what you mean. However at least you are on the edge on the moors, coast, and as you say close to lots of places (I live in Newcastle now and would love to move back home!). I think round there (I'm from abit further south inland originally but the v north of ny) is one of those really unique places where whatever your into and whatever landscape it's all within a short drive or out your front door; hiking, sailing, running, cycling the list goes on!
I think it's a really underestimated area tbh, but I had to move away to realise that, and there has been much change in the last 20 years in some of it.

Behind the ruins of Knowlton Church in Cranborne, where the pagan site was. I often stop there on my way home from work after a crazy day and just sit by the barrows. There is a strange energy there that calms me deeply.

, @weegiemum

I came across the idea of 'thin' places a few months ago. Fascinating stuff