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.

@Tangledtresses

Beaconsfield alsooo lolllzzzz how can they be snobby? It's a a small town just off a motorway? 😂😂😂

Beaconsfield (pronounced bee-cons-field if you’re a tit) is definitely snobby. And they’re very quick to let you know that they’re from the “old” town rather than the new town!

Seeing it mentioned has brought back memories of visiting the model village many many moons ago!

I’d add Marlow and Henley to the list.

@runningpram

I seem to remember them lobbying their MP to change their address to Deeside, on account of their CH postcode which they share with Blacon and Birkenhead
Absolute fuckwits.

I once spent a week in Kingham, where I was expected to worship at the shrine of the local bakers because Cameron bought his bread there. Gorgeous part of the world, but couldn’t bear to live there.

Blackheath

@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.

I'm not sure what the previous poster meant by Oxford (and some of the other suggestions) being snobby, because like any other city there are wealthy and poor people, expensive areas to live in and less desirable areas, and everything in between. Who, or what, is snobby? Unless the reference is just stereotyping the students at Oxford University.

Those days are long gone but I remember people on the Balham/Clapham South borders being insistent that they lived in Clapham rather than downmarket Balham, even though they lived past the Balham sign.

Though I think more definition of "posh" is needed.

The question is which places are snobby, not posh, and they are different things.

Heswall.

Sherborne in Dorset. I do like it there but it’s very snobby - outrage over proposed Tesco... Waitrose was obviously fine and much more Sherborne. They seem in denial that poor people live there too!

Frinton-on-Sea is fairly snobby. The locals resisted for ages and were up in arms when the first (and only) pub opened there 20 years ago. Rather strict about no amusements, no ice-cream sellers on the beach etc as “we don’t want to turn into Clacton or Walton on the Naze, you know”!

They’re also very quick to let you know that if you don’t “live within the gates” then you’re not really from Frinton.

I’d visualised a quaint/pretty place (like Aldeburgh), accessed via some impressive wrought iron gates or something. I was very disappointed when I first went there - not quaint and “the gates” are flipping level crossing barriers 🤣

Harpenden

@Waxonwaxoff0

Lympstone in Devon. So many snobby arseholes.

@Waxonwaxoff0 Exton and Topsham are far snobbier?

I love it when people phone in national radio programmes and say they're from Edgbaston or Moseley. They can't bring themselves to say Birmingham.

A certain fancy goods shop in Cirencester is the only place I've been greeted with a barked "Yes. Do you want something?!"

Tetbury was a bit up itself too.

In Wales? Cowbridge.

The outrage over the proposed Waitrose years ago! "Keep Cowbridge Special!" i.e. full of fur coats and no knickers boutiques and antiques shops.

They initially defeated the Waitrose, but they ended up with a Tesco Express which was amusing. And they eventually got the Waitrose too.

Gosforth in Newcastle. Not all of it - but the millionaire's row type area.
Ditto some parts of Jesmond.

Corbridge.

Rothbury

Great thread.

Slough and Luton though !

Harrogate features a lot on here, but I never got that sense, but I only visit, so don't know.

You would think people in Windsor and Eton actually studied at Eton and live in Windsor castle, they are so snobby.

Haha, Frinton is snobby, and it always strikes me as ridiculous if you come from anywhere outside Clacton or Walton.

Iv'e been chuckling about Luton since page 1. My Dh grew up there.

He remembers when his parent had just bought the house and decided to go for a stroll around the city center. A gang of youths appeared at speed around a corner chasing another youth. They caught him and proceeded to beat him up and saunter off. Dh was traumatised.

Fucking Darras Hall in Ponteland.

@PictureNest

Forgot to add two actually

Basildon and Luton

Luton ?! Bloody hell!

@plominoagain

Norwich - far too good to have an incinerator anywhere near them, let’s try and foist as far away but still in the county as they can. West Norfolk didn’t want it either - so they lost. Anyone would think the only place in Norfolk worth living is the sodding Golden Triangle , because the rest of the county is full of peasants ...

Oh, I love Norwich. I spent my honeymoon there. Accept that that may not have given me an accurate view of the place though.

@FloconDeNeige

Yes to Sutton Coldfield, which despite desperately trying to claim otherwise, is part of Birmingham (not that there’s anything wrong with Brum).

Geneva. Although I suppose it’s not really snobby as it’s absolutely awash with cash & gold.

Geneva is in the UK? Someone should let the Swiss know.

Christchurch

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂 definitely don't think anyone could find chelmsley wood snobby

I’m from Cheshire. Massively over inflated. There is a tiny sliver where ‘snobby’ people like to congregate. I was at a school mums lunch the other day and a cast member of Cheshire house wives were in there. They were stood directly behind me for about 45 mins gas bagging to a seated table. I’m sure they thought I was looking at them when in fact I was trying to get the bill so we could pick the kids up! Tbh it was annoying they were stood there! Honestly fuck off if your not eating!

Alot of the places mentioned are just wealthy places.

But Frinton is the absolute epitome of snobby.