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Favourite places in the UK

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GRCP · 03/01/2025 13:48

What is everyone's favourite places to visit in the UK?
This year we have 2 nights in Dorset so we can visit Lulworth Cove, Chesil Beach and Durdle Door.
We are also going camping near Stonehenge and also near Deal, will visit Broadstairs when there I think.
We also love Cornwall.
Last year we went to Bath and we also love Stratford Upon Avon.
Anyone else got any UK trips/ visits/ days out planned?

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mamaduckbone · 03/01/2025 20:14

Pembrokeshire - the coast path is beautiful round to Stackpole and Barafundal bay, and Freshwater West.
Also Cardigan Bay - Llangrannog and Mwnt, and the Llyn peninsula.
Big fan of Wales here!

We went to Devon last summer and stayed on the edge of Dartmoor which was stunning, and we love the Peak District as well.

GRCP · 03/01/2025 20:29

Oh that's another one (although not technically UK) - Howth cliff walks

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endsnewyearsday · 03/01/2025 20:29

Northumberland coast is lovely - much less commercialised/busy than Cornwall (or at least it was when I went a few years ago)
Pembrokeshire is stunning (similar rugged coastline to Cornwall)
The Lake District (big area but we've not been anywhere there we didn't like)

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Meadowfinch · 03/01/2025 18:15

The summer ds was born, he and I walked the ridgeway from the Thames to Avebury. Well, I walked it and he came along in a sling. It was blissful. I used to feed him, sitting on a rug in the sunshine, beside a cornfield, watching combine harvesters and swallows.

A magical place. 😊

Oh, that’s made me very nostalgic. I used to walk on the Ridgeway with friends during my student days at Oxford. I have a memory of lying on the gras# looking at the Uffington White Horse and having moments of great sexual tension by Wayland’s Smithy.

Cosycore · 03/01/2025 20:36

I adore York.

randonneuse · 03/01/2025 20:46

If you're in London, then walking in the Chilterns. I think they're just spectacular, and right on your doorstep! Sharpenhoe Clappers and Ivinghoe Beacon are fantastic hills; how they rise up out of the Bedfordshire plains is just astonishing. I did the Chilterns Cycleway last year; the area around Stoke Dry and Hambleden was particularly lovely for old old villages and a landscape that felt from another time.

Doseofreality · 15/03/2025 18:02

Abersoch, Tenby or Malahide in the summer.
The Lake District in the winter.

TonTonMacoute · 15/03/2025 18:05

Meadowfinch · 03/01/2025 18:15

The summer ds was born, he and I walked the ridgeway from the Thames to Avebury. Well, I walked it and he came along in a sling. It was blissful. I used to feed him, sitting on a rug in the sunshine, beside a cornfield, watching combine harvesters and swallows.

A magical place. 😊

White Horse Hill is one of my favourite places.

LoobyLott · 15/04/2025 03:07

Cumbria - the Lake District
York
Edinburgh
Northumberland
Newcastle by train
Norwich

towelonfloor · 15/04/2025 05:48

Love West Wittering, Broadstairs, & New Forest.

LoobyLott · 15/04/2025 23:13

towelonfloor · 15/04/2025 05:48

Love West Wittering, Broadstairs, & New Forest.

Ah yes, West Wittering is lovely. I used to go there with a BF years ago. What surprised me though was seeing people sitting on the grass next to their car having a picnic, the other side of a big hedge from the sea. Very weird.

Speckson · 15/04/2025 23:50

FiveGoMadInDorset · 03/01/2025 18:44

I try and swim in Lulworth Cove two to three times a week

Northern Ireland especially the Antrim Coast is a favourite, I would like to take 6 months off and do the islands of Scotland

Really??!! Swimming at Lulworth is downright scary IMO. It shelves steeply and it's big pebbles - like trying to swim off Chesil. Or are you jumping in off a boat?

I live in Swanage on the "Jurassic Coast"... but give me Dartmoor any time.

However all holiday resorts in the South are being ruined by overdevelopment

SchrodingersTwat2 · 16/04/2025 00:06

If I'm just popping out, then Hereford.

I also like:
Solva
Aberdyfi
Dungeness
York
Edinburgh
Hadrian's Wall
Avebury (prefer it to Stonehenge)

2025isavibe · 16/04/2025 00:07

Following

towelonfloor · 16/04/2025 00:18

@LoobyLott oh yes, I think they come for the view (?) or sea air. I think some don't ever set foot on the beach.

RockyRogue1001 · 16/04/2025 00:24

Waiting for where I live to get a mention. It always does.

Also always appears on the places you hate threads🤷‍♀️

GRCP · 16/04/2025 08:13

Ah yes Dungeness - love it and we go often for a ride on the steam train and lunch in the cafe.

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