Snobbiest places in the UK?

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Following from similar threads about overrated and underrated places in the UK... where are the snobbiest places in the UK?

From the places I've been, I'd say Harrogate, Oxford, and the rest of the Cotswolds.

Solihull? Really?

I told her I grew up in the village, and she looked me up and down and said “On the council estate I assume?” Cheeky fucking bitch.

She wasn't the only snob in that conversation. Sounds like you are right about your village being snobby

Clitheroe

Harrow on the hill is Posh.
Pinner (and Eastcoat) are snobby.
I have been told that .at Halloween, residents will answer the door to a coded knock known only by other residents.
Pinner has quite the opinion of itself whereas up on the hill, the money whispers. I love how my working class blood thins when I go up there but only ever had a pleasant time in the church, in nearby shops and cafes down the last 30 odd years.

Apart from a few odd outliers (Basildon? Luton? ) the responses on this thread show that the title of the OP may as well have read

'Where are the most expensive/beautiful/highly sought after places in the UK.'

Have any of the people who say the Cotswolds is snobby ever watched 'This Country'?

I am surprised how many of these towns mentioned I have visited/lived in (I was born in one of them) and didn't find them snobby at all.

A lot are just really nice places where people would loveto live.

@Sparklingbrook Agreed.

I took it as towns where people genuinely think they are much better than the next town over type of thing, hence Clitheroe

Fartney Wintney!

@ThewaterlilliesofGiverny

Fartney Wintney!

Where's that?

I also second Solihull and Sutton Coldfield. I come from a really pretty chocolate box type affluent SE market town so when I lived in Brum I could never get it, both towns looked really ultra normal and not especially nice to me. But yet the people there think they’re the loveliest places ever and worth mentioning in the ‘we don’t live in Birmingham’ way.

And very aware I do have a snobby set of eyes in my head!

Can I also mention Sissinghurst? I know its not a town but it seemed staffed by a type of person.
I finally got to visit this place and got SUCH a snobby vibe from the staff. As if they were doing me a very great favour letting me in. Maybe they were all having a bad day but the tone was identical in the cafe, the people driving the carts ringing people from the car park up to the entrance and staff in the shop. Cold and barely contained irritation. Not a warm smile or even welcome given by any of them and there seemed to be quite a lot of staff there.
It left a disappointing impression.

A place in north Hampshire full of snobby old farts!

I’m shocked that only one small town near me has been named, I live in quite a snobby area but I’m in a village, there are lots of snobby villages here and small town, most people drive range rovers, you rarely see homeless people here, most people have large families and large houses, house prices are high....oh and most people seem to own a horse or ten.

We don’t really find Bath snobby but it is a nice city full of history as is Oxford and York.

It’s real name has been mentioned upthread

That's exactly it @thecatsabsentcajones

Solihull is a nice town. Its nothing special, mind.

But oh my word, you get the "we're from Solihull" (pronounced sew-li-hull). Knowle and😗Dorridge even worse!!

@ThewaterlilliesofGiverny

A place in north Hampshire full of snobby old farts!

I wondered if you meant Hartley Wintney? Which is lovely.

@Bluesheep8

Solihull? Really?

Yes, really. Snobby as anything about not being part of Birmingham whilst not actually being anything special at all.

Lots of places can be snobby whilst not actually being that desirable. That's what's so funny and mockable about snobbishness.

My parents now live near Ludlow. Ludlow is a far lovelier town than Solihull but doesn't have the snobby vibe with it.

I need a UK road trip I think. Revisit some of these 'snobby' towns and see what's changed, as I don't recognise some of these descriptions.

Tenbury wells

But oh my word, you get the "we're from Solihull" (pronounced sew-li-hull)
With the emphasis on the "hull" bit for true snobbiness! When the Moat House Hotel opened in the mid-90s they offered a free roast dinner on their first Sunday to anyone whose name rhymed with Solihull giving the examples in their advert of Molly Hull or Solly (short for Solomon) Hull. Someone called Roly Hull wrote to the Solihull Times to complain about this common mispronounciation of his town and to point out he was the only one who truly rhymed.

East London newbies - the gentrification lot. So snobby and wannabe middle class. It stinks. Donate to oxfam to make themselves feel better at the way they sneer at the ‘indigenous’ immigrant locals who’ve lived there for yonks.

Massive generalisation disclaimer here.

I hate " Labels " so what do You define as being " Snobby " or " Posh " Please ???????????

Bearsden: You are a boring overpriced suburb. Get over yourself.
Lindisfarne: Still dining out on being Christian before the rest of us.
All of London: For not really believing anywhere else exists:"Oh I could never move away. Where would I go out to eat?How would I find a theatre?"

@Fizbosshoes- I don’t think so- I always hated going out in Lytham because of the way anyone who isn’t glossed up to the eyeballs is looked down on. Fur coat and no knickers suggests misplaced illusions of superiority- which is very evident there in the pubs and restaurants.