Overrated places in the UK

[Fixitup2]

What are your over rated places in the U.K. that everyone else seems to love?

Mine is the Peak District which imo has mediocre scenery spoilt by too many roads and too many people. I hate it and only ever agree to go if there’s nowhere else and we need to stop somewhere that way.

St Albans. Couldn’t see the fuss. Was very very bland to the point of depressing.

Margate will never happen no matter how hard people try.

We stopped in the Cotswolds the other week to break up the drive north from our holiday in Dorset. We went for a bike ride and it was so meh. A few nice villages but very dull scenery.

I used to think the peak district was massively overrated too but when the sun's shining it can look really nice.

I went to Bristol for the first time last year and I loved it! I normally hate cities but I really thought it was super cool.

@Tagaagajavdv

Yorkshire, I’m from there. People who aren’t from there tell me how ‘nice’ it is. It isn’t

Right well that just isn't true. How spoilt of you that you think that!

You should move and then you'll realise how lucky you are

Agree about St Albans very overrated

Interesting to see North Wales slated. Am lucky enough to live very near and can wait until the weather’s great before visiting. Totally different vibe to when it’s horizontal rain or damp mist.

Cornwall. But then pretty much the whole of the UK. Now you're allowed 'out' I just cannot think of a single place compelling enough to visit.

@TheAlphaandtheOmega

I thought Stonehenge was English Heritage not NT, maybe it's both.

Yes, both. The Stones themselves are managed by English Heritage on behalf of the nation ( they were donated as a war memorial).

The surrounding land has been slowly acquired by the National Trust. So to get to the Stones, or admire many of the other archaeological features in the landscape, you have to cross NT land.

The two bodies therefore have to work as partners, and they often don’t, which leads to some of the crap experience people have. (I spent some years of my life trying to sort this out, and made very little progress.)

Plymouth the most depressing place ever . It’s all so spread out for a city .

Ooh I love London and The Lake District.

Think the Cottswolds are overrated. The actual countryside isn’t particularly stunning (but then I love the Yorkshire Dales). And it’s too posh.

Most people’s expectations of Blackpool must be pretty low surely? It’s just shit but not overrated.

I don't think I've ever been somewhere in the UK that I haven't really liked. I even like Stoke and would recommend it as being worth a visit. Love Blackpool.

[quote MinnieMountain]@SmidgenofaPigeon try the Hope Valley in the Peak District. I go walking there without a car.[/quote]
Goyt and Sett valleys are also lovely. The whole area is brilliant to explore on foot, if you can!

York or London... Dreadful places

Edinburgh.. Fake Scotland

for all the people getting offended and saying 'which part of london' or listing things they like in london.

All of london sucks, I have done the tourist shit and been there for work and it sucks for all the reasons I listed (claustraphobic, depressing, disconnected, overcrowded, hard to navigate etc... an hour in london makes me want to find the tallest building and jump, its just shit for mental health) of course there are good thing IN london but the problem is they are in london - you can stick diamond in dog shit but it will still dog shit.

If the took the museums and cool resteraunts/pubs etc... and put them elsewhere they would be great its the overall City thats terrible not each indervidual thing in it.

Edinburgh is let down by the scarcity of clean bathrooms, combined with a temperature that leaves women perpetually in need of a wee.

I did quite like Edinburgh but was not prepared for the piles of vomit in most shop doorways on Sunday morning. Piled high not the liquid stuff. Like my dogs vomit when he has eaten his dinner too quickly.

Birmingham but I'm not sure it is really overrated.

Brighton.
Stratford always think I'm going to like it but is is dull.

My 13-year-old has Blackpool on his list of places we need to visit this year-to be fair we have watched a lot of 4 in a bed and he's hoping we will stay at a Blackpool B&B too

Aldeburgh - never ever anywhere to park and lovely but so are lots of places

Bath, totally overrun and grumpy locals.

I agree Manchester. I grew up there and now live in the suburbs.

There are some nice places but a lot of it is modern concrete grot. The lovely Victorian buildings have been knocked down, Piccadilly gardens is full of spice addicts.

Sacreligeous to say for a Mancunian but I think Liverpool is nicer.

Whitstable. Londoners love it though.

Liberty is on Regent St and Claridges is on Brook St. Not Oxford St

The Forbidden Corner in North Yorkshire

whiteroseredrose Wed 12-May-21 19:37:37
I agree Manchester. I grew up there and now live in the suburbs.

Sacreligeous to say for a Mancunian but I think Liverpool is nicer.

Agree, and I'm also a Manc.

All of Oxford, bloody hellish

Kent.

Garden of England - my arse.

Concrete jungle most of the parts I've been to - unless they border Sussex. Everyone talks like an East end criminal. Other side of M25 it's like going to the ends of the earth wherever you come from.

Husband is from there and shares same view!

let's be honest, anywhere can be total crap if too many people visit in one hit.