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Middle class towns

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midnightmoon8 · 30/08/2018 08:06

We drove home from holiday yesterday and passed through Marlborough where we made a lunch stop to break our journey. What a fabulous town! Everything about it felt so upmarket; the shops, smart people, etc. Where have you been that felt so 'posh'?

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Ifailed · 30/08/2018 08:06

Hull.

knittedwoollenmouse · 30/08/2018 08:13

Corbridge

MissMarplesKnitting · 30/08/2018 08:15

Costwold towns like Stow-on-the-Wold.

Cambridge and Oxford always feel posh but that's because I've only seen the city centres!

gower4 · 30/08/2018 08:17

Ipswich

Camomila · 30/08/2018 08:55

I really like Horsham in Sussex. Especially the pedestrianised town centre.

boomboo · 30/08/2018 08:57

Chester

ProfYaffle · 30/08/2018 08:58

A lot of the smaller towns in Norfolk, Halesworth, Beccles, Bungay, Eye (though that's Suffolk) they're spookily uniformly middle class.

Milliepede · 30/08/2018 09:01

Harrogate, Alnwick, Corbridge

Phillipa12 · 30/08/2018 09:01

Burford, Moreton in Marsh, and Marlborough.

Madmarchpear · 30/08/2018 09:01

Buxton is lovely and full of green spaces.
Kendal and Windermere.

I'm from Stoke though so easily impressed.

AnnabelleLecter · 30/08/2018 09:02

Melbourne, Derbyshire.

MrsAmaretto · 30/08/2018 09:03

Stamford, Formby, Poulton-le-flyde

Turquoisetamborine · 30/08/2018 09:06

Greenwich, Harrogate, Ripon, Jesmond.

Turquoisetamborine · 30/08/2018 09:07

Helmsley. Coming from the NE I’m always surprised how wealthy large parts of North Yorkshire seem to be and wonder how we largely missed out.

maxthemartian · 30/08/2018 09:12

Winchester.

AnnabelleLecter · 30/08/2018 09:18

Beverly,
Cheltenham
Southwold

plominoagain · 30/08/2018 09:21

Prof Yaffle, aren’t all those towns in Suffolk ?. I’d add Bury St Edmunds in there too .

supercalifragilistic2 · 30/08/2018 09:32

Skegness.... I'm easily impressed

MargaretDribble · 30/08/2018 09:37

At Albans - or at least the conservation area near the Abbey.😍

MargaretDribble · 30/08/2018 09:37

St Albans, obviously.

topcat2014 · 30/08/2018 09:40

I live in Cheltenham, but it has it's issues - like all towns.

On average, yes, probably more MC overall than some - but not perfect by a long way.

When I grew up I remember we had 'A' murder..

Nowadays they unfortunately happen a little more frequently.

CocoDeMoll · 30/08/2018 09:41

lowestoft Grin

JacintaJones · 30/08/2018 09:43

Frodsham
Caldy/West Kirby.

OutPinked · 30/08/2018 09:44

Hull Grin.

Haworth, Ilkley, Hebden Bridge.

LBOCS2 · 30/08/2018 09:45

Guildford.