Snobbiest places in the UK?

[phranes]

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.

[Sickoffamilydrama]

Oxford has areas of massive deprivation & when I was a kid was the world hotspot for joy riding hardly snobby!

Although granted the students do sometimes have an element of snobbery about them although I'm sure most aren't.

[FloofyGuineaPig]

Basildon?!!

[lydia2021]

Sherborne, Dorset

[Thighdentitycrisis]

Who do the people of Basildon think they’re better than?

[schroeder]

People in Holt have had enough of the red trouser brigade. It didn't used to be like that 30 years ago.

[RedcurrantPuff]

East Renfrewshire (much of) full of snobby dreary type who wank on about schools all the time.

[FleetwoodRaincoat]

This is a brilliant thread - been looking for "naice" towns and villages to visit this year .

Although Luton? Seriously?

[Rover83]

Luton??? 😂

[PostieModern]

Lots of people in less nice parts of Edinburgh still have an innate sense of superiority, just because they come from Edinburgh. So I would say that snobbery is quite widespread

[OlivesTree]

Burnham Market in Norfolk. Even the air is snobbish.

[RedcurrantPuff]

@PostieModern

Lots of people in less nice parts of Edinburgh still have an innate sense of superiority, just because they come from Edinburgh. So I would say that snobbery is quite widespread

From friends who live in Edinburgh there is quite a lot of school snobbery. There’s a large private school culture even among people who can’t comfortably afford it.

[amatsip]

Horsham, West Sussex, so posh they removed McDonald’s from the town centre as it wasn’t in keeping with the town.

[Jellybabiesforbreakfast]

Morningside in Edinburgh (in response to the request above to be more specific )
Bath
Wimbledon village
Hampstead Heath
Southwold
The Cotswolds

Though I think more definition of "posh" is needed. Are we talking:

1. twee (and I think Edinburgh and Bath deserve an honourable mention here);
   
   
2. plummy accents and tweeds; or
   
   
3. fucking filthy rich? As in gold mazaratis and basement swimming pools. Not many of those in Morningside...

[RedcurrantPuff]

Posh and snobby aren’t necessarily the same though.

[Jellybabiesforbreakfast]

Sorry, just realised focus on "snobby" not "posh" .

[Jellybabiesforbreakfast]

@RedcurrantPuff. I agree..."snobby" is more about consciously feeling superior.

[HeronLanyon]

redcurrant totally agree. Thought of a few places but they are simply posh. Not snobby in the slightest (outwardly anyway). Kind of think most truly posh places are not snobby. Snobby indicates a striving.

[wotchhha]

Salcombe - went to a hotel restaurant there & it was awful, so snobbish.

[mumIme]

100% Oxford. So many snobs there, largely because of the university, of which most people in Oxford have zero connection to.

I'd also add in Newbury and Cheltenham.

[glasshalfsomething]

Wilmslow

[HerMammy]

MN

[InTheGreatGreenRoom]

Agree with Horsham, West Sussex

[RedcurrantPuff]

@glasshalfsomething

Wilmslow

It’s a strange place. Plenty of shitty shops nestling along side the Aston Martin and Patek Philippe retailers. I think it would like to be snobbier than it is though.

[newtb]

Altrincham - the Bowdon residents' assoc refused to have Trafford as part of their address. It's why Timperley, Altrincham and Bowdon have Cheshire as their address. They're all in Trafford.

[joystir59]

South cliff.in Scarborough. Very snobby but crumbling into the sea. I live in an old fishing family's cottage across the bay in the original Old Town with the local drug dealers, but at least it's built on the rocky headland and will survive down the ages.