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.

Cornwall. I live here, it’s wasted on me. Damp, shit shops, even shitter roads, takes days to get out of the county. Beaches are beautiful but t’s so fucking rammed from May to September. DC’s love it though so I’ll stay put for now.

The Lake District. Probably an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer the Yorkshire Dales.

London - Any part.
Birmingham - Don't see why anyone would what to live or visit.

Everywhere that is just countryside & scenery- lovely for 5 minutes and then what? I don’t want to look at trees for a week.
Most cities - I live in London, every other UK city I’ve been to has the same stuff as London but not as good & not as much of it.
York was ok & Brighton is alright for a day out

@Inextremis

Dungeness. I have never seen so much shingle in my life. It's like a wasteland.

With a bleeding nuclear power plant at the end!

Any north east seaside towns, Whitby, Scarborough etc

@Mimilondon39

Best way to do Oxford Street, London = Liberty, Selfridges and then cocktails in Le Fumoir in Claridge's. Heaven!

I have to agree. If you're going to the chain stores that are on every high street that is doing it wrong.

SweatyBetty20. Yes, notting hill carnival is shit!

I love this thread, makes me smile at the different responses. Some of the places listed are bloody fabulous IMO: Peak District and Lake District, Bristol.

Others, I would concur.....grew up near Cambridge, fucking hate the place. I moved away when I was 19 and have never looked back.

I don’t know why just felt a bit underwhelmed by Bath. I can see it’s pretty and we had lovely pizza but we were done in a couple of hours. We went twice as well, sort of still feel I am missing something because people rave about the place but it’s not really for me. Give me Bristol any day of the week.

I used to love Brighton, my pace is more Worthing these days....

Gosh I love the IOW. The time warp bit is the best part! Just love it there so relaxing.

It really depends on what you like doesn’t it?
I love history and historic houses, architecture. Castles and cathedrals. Cobbled streets and Tudor houses.
Bath is fabulous and the Roman Baths are amazing if you are into history.
So many old buildings there I just love walking / driving around.
Cotswolds is also amazing. Such pretty lanes, cottages and countryside.
Cambridge is absolutely beautiful but what spoils it is the sheet number of people trying to walk around. Little trick- go on a midweek evening when the students have left and admire the nearly empty streets
Cornwall beaches are stunningly beautiful. You literally can’t get more stunning than carbis bay, Porth beach or kayance cove. St Ives is beautiful and so quaint. Peak times though can totally ruin it with people. The next time I visit kayance cove will be out of season for sure. The other let down with Cornwall beaches is how cold the water is. I couldn’t stand it for long even in July.
Newquay isn’t great - would avoid the town centre next time but I loved Newquay beach. The waves and watching the surfers was epic.
Devon and the Newforest are always special for me. Particularly lymmington and New Milton.
Brighton I’m not so keen on unless I’m on a hen do or similar.
Parts of London are amazing and historic. Parts are scummy. I’ve travelled most places in London and lived there for 3 years but wouldn’t live there now.
Windsor is another beautiful place and steeped in amazing history. I could just stand for hours looking around and touching all the ancient things. Been to Windsor castle many times.

Stonehenge I enjoyed, but I loved learning about the history of both the henge and the surrounding land.

North Wales is beautiful. Norfolk I also love.

York is incredible in places, but can be crowded which spoils it. Who doesn’t love the shambles though- come on!

Parts of Sussex area stunning particularly around the ash down forest. I’m not keen on hastings as I find it grotty in general but rottingdean beach is excellent for swimming.

Peak District has some lovely parts but I wouldn’t really travel miles to get there in a hurry.

I wasn’t all that keen on waymouth. Whistable is average for me but tankerton next door is lovely.

Can you tell I love England!?

@GiveMyHeadPeaceffs Wed 12-May-21 19:01:56
Don't anyone go to Ballycastle, it's beautiful and I don't want it overrun

Ah, thank you. I'm hoping to finally get to visit Northern Ireland in the next few years and am looking for places we need to visit. I'll add that to my list after Derry.

Another vote for Brighton. I managed to live there for 18 months before getting out. Expensive, dirty, full of the woke, crap beach...need I go on.

@KateTheEighth

Isle of Skye

Miserable and unwelcoming

And midges

Second this. Mull is nicer, and neither of them is as beautiful as the mainland west coast.

@therearenogoodusernamesleft

I used to love York, but it's been ruined by stag/hen parties, and the races.

Hasn’t York always been like that (or at least for quite a while now)? That’s certainly how I remember it from the early 1990s.

Boscastle and Glastonbury.
Bad vibes. Cold on hot summer days. Strange atmosphere. Felt I was being watched. Couldn't wait to leave the places !

Lake District is just drizzley all the time. . We went to London for 1, of my DC's birthday s thought I would hate it but loved it.

@TerribleCustomerCervix ahhh you born and bred NIers are so spoilt. It's no trip at all for an English person used to traffic and a larger country! And you can combine with other delights on the north coast. We went a few times whilst living in East Belfast and it was no bother for a day out.

@SmidgenofaPigeon catch the train into Edale, taxi to Hathersage or walk to the YHA in Edale for a super cheap stay. Can do all sorts of amazing walls from there. Gorgeous part of the world. I love it in Autumn when there are hardly any tourists but still enough light to get a good walk in before a pint in front of the fire.

I mustn't be fussy because I've enjoyed many of the above places. Went to Uni in London, lived in Bloomsbury, had the time of my life. Wouldn't shop on Oxford Street but there was just SO MUCH TO DO and I met so many people from all over the world and different walks of life. Every evening was full of a thousand possibilities and there were so many fabulous museums and art galleries, parks and exhibitions that a penniless student could enjoy.

The only place that springs to mind that I haven't enjoyed is Weymouth. We were given a free trip there (long story) and it was very drab, but we made the best of it and had fun anyway.

We managed a whole holiday in York, Harrogate and North Yorkshire the other year and I loved every minute. Railway museum, afternoon teas, great pubs, restaurants and people and decent shopping.

I grew up in High Wycombe so I think my standards are low...

I have lived in Surrey most of my life, born and raised here. It’s fairly ok and safe but has bugger all in the way of culture. I really don’t understand why people move here when they become super rich, I would be out of here and off to the coast in a heartbeat.

Cornwall is lovely but my god it's hilly

Cornwall. I lived there for ten years because ex husband was a surfer and it was his rubicon for being involved in son's life.
I felt hemmed in, by a socially and physically claustrophobic peninsula and hated the lack of hills and trees and space.
Cornwall is so very small and there is only one road in and out.
I went up the A30 for the last time SCREAMING with joy.
I now live in a very hilly rural area with a lot of space.

Land's End

It is everything except hilly.

@SmidgenofaPigeon, it may not be an obvious place but, if you want to do the next bit down from Northumberland, Sunderland isn't a bad place to base yourself. Nice beaches and good transport links for day trips, nice coastal walks and some nice independent cafes. :)

Having read Brighton Rock at an impressionable age I was fully expecting Brighton to be sinister and threatening, so when I went there I was able to be pleasurably impressed by the good shops and great food instead. Plus the flashmob of very brightly dressed women that turned up on a drizzly Sunday morning on the pier. Loved that.

Land's End, on the other hand, was just TERRIBLE. Don't bother.

Oh, and you can get weekly passes which cover all the bus companies for within Tyne & Wear.