Tell me about the loveliest/best villages in the UK 🙂

[LowbrowVictoriana]

I'm going to be acquiring a small campervan soon. I do love a nice village. What are some lovely ones that DH and I - sometimes just I solo - can visit?
Could be that they're pretty, historically interesting, other places of interest nearby, lovely shops, near some natural beauty... which villages do you love?

TIA 🌺

The villages around Stoke sub Hamdon are gorgeous. There are loads of them. With fine pubs and summer meadows.

Villages and small towns
Pately Bridge and surroundings.
Grassington ( All Creatures Great and Small)
Bainbridge, Askrigg

Helmsley
Hovingham, near Castle Howard (Bridgerton)

Llanrhaedr, Ceiriog valley, Otterton

I was going to suggest the same. Lymm and Knutsford nearby are also nice.

Hurley in Berkshire. You can do a lovely walk from there to Henley or Marlow. Sonning is nearby and also nice with a great pub and a large restaurant on the river.

Some nice little clusters mentioned… could bag a few in one visit; or have multi-centred break!

Not so much a village but we loved Tarbert - Argyll and Bute. The drive to it, around Loch Fyne, from Glasgow is glorious.

Garnett includes this cafe/bistro with the most amazing, ever changing street food offer.

https://lulabellesoftarbert.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/LULABELLESOFTARBERT

Garnett???
*Tarbert

Woodhall Spain Lincolnshire, littered with history and just a lovely all round village, There is a tiny cinema in the middle of the woods too which is amazing. I might be bias as I live there but I honestly woudnt want to live anywhere else

How nice to find some more posts this morning. Thank you all.

@ZeroFuchsGiven I'm visiting my DS this summer and he lives very near Woodhall Spa (he's in the RAF, surprise surprise!) so I'll make sure we pop over and spend a little time there.

Oh, that is supposed to say Woodhall Spa IN Lincolnshire not Woodhall Spain 😂

@ZeroFuchsGiven I worked it out! 🤓

You could do a lovely Borders tour - Selkirk, Melrose, Hawick, Kelso... pretty market towns and villages with lots of history.

Sussex is gorgeous but omg the traffic

Finchingfield in Essex. Chocolate box pretty..almost everything is thatched and there's a duck pond.
Bosham (pronounced Bozzum) in West Sussex near Chichester. Has a waterfront that you can drive along at low tide and is allegedly the place where King Canute did his thing with the sea.

Craster
Lynton & Lyndmouth
Plockton

41 posts and no mention of Blanchland? Type it into a browser and see the pictures, it's very picturesque.

Frampton on Severn in Gloucestershire.

Castleton Derbyshire
Dunster somerset

Grasmere in the lakes
Warkworth in Northumberland
Castle Combe in the Cotswolds
Saltburn in Teeside (probably a bit bigger than a village if I remember rightly).
Craster in Northumberland
Pretty much anywhere in the peaks

@LowbrowVictoriana what about doing the Northumberland250 you’ll visit lots of lovely villages and places.

Lavenham in Suffolk. It thrived in the middle ages with the wool trade but then was bypassed and forgotten in later centuries. Beautiful old buildings. Close to antique hubs such as Long Melford.

The Black and White villages in Herefordshire are very pretty - Eardisland etc.

St David's in Pemboshire is actually a city, but is lovley and is about the size of a village.

Pembrokshire