Middle class towns

[midnightmoon8]

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'?

Ha- I was about to post Guildford!

Huntingdon

Lots of places in Cheshire - Sandbach, Tarporley and Knutsford cone to mind. Perhaps Nantwich too.

Bath - I know it's got a less salubrious suburb, but the centre is very naice. Ditto Oxford.

Lots of towns in Oxfordshire. Thame springs to mind, but I only visited once, ten years ago!

Stamford and Oakham are amongst my nearest towns and are really nice.We also have Melton Mowbray which isn't!

I'd say parts of Ipswich were MC. Like most towns it is pretty mixed.

North Berwick
Perth
Buxton

Wherever you go there are grotty bits on the outskirts.

Gullane

I'd say parts of Ipswich were MC. Like most towns it is pretty mixed

The only part of Ipswich I've ever been to is Liquid nightclub. That didn't feel very MC 😁

Guildford? No it’s got too strong an ex army feel and to in Surrey so trying to hard and morge.
Lowestoft has its enclave so of loveliness- The Avenue, parts of Oulton Broad.
Most places have smarts area and it will entirely depend on your definition of middle class ness. Lots of affluent villages would sneer at being deemed middle class.
Middle class to some might mean Esther, Chobham, Richmond, Chesham, Harrow but what that actually means is suburbia.
Others might think places like Sunningdale or Wentworth but that simple means expensive Surrey.
Genuinely smarter places are inhabited by those who don’t need a daily commute or who can choose their time of travel, who have family land or having made their money have taken retirement at 50 and moved to the country.
Lovely places include parts of London (often second homes), Winchester but not Andover, Kings Worthy etc, Chichester and area to the north but not to the south, smaller places like Haslemere or Stockbridge.
Harrogate but not Bolton.
Keswick but not Penrith.
Southwold but not Leiston.
Dartmouth but not Torquay.
Cowes but not Sandown.

The devil is always in the detail and even within most towns and cities there are smarter areas and less smart areas. The middle classes have form for finding places and colonising them.

St Albans, Marlow, Hertford, Tunbridge Wells, Southwold; Richmond, Teddington, Farnham... all lovely towns

Lots of these places are posh enclaves propped up by tourism, in areas of coastal / rural deprivation.

I went to Saffron Walden about ten years ago. That was nice

Southwell , Nottinghamshire

Shaftesbury and surrounding area

Cowbridge in Wales...definitely up there with them

Sherborne in Dorset. Full of old men wearing tweed caps and with red trousers.

Stratford-upon-Avon

Shrewsbury is quite posh, but Telford is not

Chester is my home town.

Hull is a joke isn’t it?
I’ve never been there , so don’t know

Peebles

I quite liked Hull The bridge was amazing. But I think it was a joke.

I once got farnborough and Farnham muddled

Canterbury
Whitstable
Sandwich
Cowes
Yarmouth
Lots of new forest towns
St mawes
Fowey
Truro
Salcombe

Shrewsbury
Iron gate
Harpenden
Hitchin
Basildon

We went mountain biking in Cannock Chase in Staffordshire recently and drove through some very "English" and posh looking villages on the way back to the motorway.

*Harrogate but not Bolton
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??? I don't get this. Harrogate and Bolton are nowhere near each other. Not even the same county