What is the nicest town or city you have visited in England?

[MikeRafone]

What is the nicest town or city you have visited in England?

I'll go first

Wells

Richmond in North Yorkshire for the town.
Norwich or Liverpool for the city. Probably Norwich though I love the vibrancy of Liverpool.

Buxton
Ledbury
Hay-on-Wye
Alnwick

Ok I’m going to bow out of this now as it has just become silly. You win Mumsnet today, I answered with the wrong country and not even a town or city. If that’s what makes you feel good about yourself, I have sympathy. However, I am also happy it has brought you some level of joy. That’s nice.

This level of criticism on Mumsnet is what puts people off.

Again stand by the fact that Port Meirion is lovely.

Not a particularly pretty city but we ended up in Bradford one year for 3 weeks and had a great time. I started a thread about it that went on for pages, but it's a very interesting place and I'd love to visit again.

Thanks for your reports about this thread.

We've probably established the difference between England and the UK by now and the continued arguments are derailing what should be a lovely thread.

Please can we get it back on topic and hear about people's favourite towns and cities in England? Thanks

I loathed York. I don't understand the love for it. Horrible city full of pretentious wankers.

It's not that deep to use the right word to indicate the country you are referring to.

Forgive my slightly random segmentation

Towns / Small cities
Harrogate
Bath
Beaconsfield
Stratford upon Avon

Suburb - Richmond

Big city - Leeds

Outside of England - St Andrews

Norwich, St Albans, Canterbury

Umm! Edinburgh is NOT IN ENGLAND.

MNHQ have now asked that people stop going on about it, so do give it a rest.

Marlow

I've got a real soft spot for Bath and York, both of which are cities I've lived in.

I also think Lancaster is really underrated.

My favourite towns are Leamington Spa and Buxton.

Also outside of England, but since I've already mentioned numerous places in England, I am also part German and part Scottish and I'm past caring.😂😎

Cologne
Fort Augustus

😂

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I love Verona. One of my favourite cities in Europe

a visit to the opera on warm summer's evening cannot be beaten

I have never understood why people like Bath. The Bath stone is so bland - the place looks as if it's built out of concrete blocks. They number houses weirdly too - up one side and down the other.

For prettiness I love Winchester - touristy but still a proper working city that prevents it from getting too twee. For sheer vibrancy and in your face OOMPH Liverpool and Belfast are hard to beat. It’s hard to be bored when you visit them.

Just because some posters wanted to include the rest of the UK, as did I!

I'm with you on Bath.

Bath is lovely but it has a very strange feel to the place.
I can't say I've ever thought of a city as not being nice because of the house numbering.

Agreed. I literally cannot stand Bath although I know that I should. It gives me really horrible vibes, like the dementors have sucked out my bone marrow. Also, I could not believe that you had to pay to get into the only nice grassed area in the city centre.

I hate cities, but Bristol is amazing. A melting pot for musical innovation.

Weymouth.

London gives me a nosebleed, I actively avoid the place.