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

I don’t know about having to pay, in Bath , to get to the grassy area. I must be Quite out of date. If people are preferring BoA to Bath, it must have gone seriously downhill, as in my mind they aren’t in the same category, even. Potentially Bath is less good than it used to be, then. This is such a trend. Saddening.

I live here!

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Ludlow. If you like York/Chester, you’d love Ludlow.

Ludlow Castle is lovely. I saw an outdoor performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when I was a teenager.

Seconded. Staithes is also the location of the best fudge shop on the planet. 😋

I feel the same about Stroud!

Bath is still gorgeous IMO. The only bad part is the massive quantity of tourists in summer (and during the Christmas market.) But still lovely and has my favourite bookshop of anywhere I've ever been to.

If it’s Persephone Books, that would be the only reason I would ever want to visit Bath again. I was sad that they moved from London.

Persephone Books is such a lovely shop. I order online from them too but I always go there if I am in Bath

I do like Toppings too though

I thought from your username that you were in that area. I love the Piece Hall too.

I did! Fab foodie place too 👍🏻

Crewe.

Just kidding, it’s a shithole.

Ha ha, me too, Stroud is soo off kilter feeling, eek.

London - without a doubt. It has city life, parks, squares, the river, canals and suburbs, great transport and so much to do.

Yes Bath made us feel weird too! We had a bad meal in the Sally Lunns place and now every time someone mentions Bath me and DH shudder and say “ Sally Lunns!”

I lmow you're joking, ans the town itself is a dump, but it's surrounded by lovely villages.

This reminds me of the song "Slough" by Ricky Gervais, if you haven't heard it give it a listen 🤣

Sole Street, Kent. On finishing a section of a long-distance walk there a woman spontaneously asked me if I'd had a good walk, and the village shopkeeper sold me a loaf of bread even though he was closed and had only gone to his shop briefly to fetch something. Then when a week or so later I started the next section of the walk it was the booking clerk at the station who was friendly and asked about my day's plans.

Fulford, York (All round great location)
Herons Ghyll, East Sussex (Peaceful)
Lytham, Lancashire (Bit of everything)!

Ooh so did I!

Already mentioned, but Canterbury really stood out, followed by Salisbury and Weymouth.

Slough.
...oh no! Wait a minute. Not Slough, I meant Aldermaston. You know, where they make bombs.

Oxford.

Stamford,
Winchester
St Ives
Keswick

Manchester is my favourite large city. Love Liverpool too.

Rye
Eynesford