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.

@KateTheEighth

Westbay

Over rated shit hole

Did they ever build the Marina they were planning?

We used to holiday in Chideock a lot.

@NCNCNCNCNCNCNCNCNC that sounds amazing! I stayed in a lovely YHA near Box Hill in Surrey on my own once- you had to go to the loo outside but that was totally worth it because you’d see badgers sniffling around at night. I also enjoyed my walk to the Denby Wine Estate

@WhipperSnapperSteve How very dare you 😂
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Edinburgh.

@MuddlingMackem that’s a great tip- and definitely not somewhere I’d have thought of!

Warwick Castle.

Half mile yomp from the car park. Extra £9 per person for one of the few bits we wanted to see (dungeons). Couldn't turn round without tripping over a screaming kid and didn't bother to see the jousting show which was the other thing we might have been interested in due to massed screaming kids.

Hell in a tabard.

My family have lived on the the Wight 100 plus years so I love what it was. The beaches are amazing. The weird 1950’s vibe is fun.
Unfortunately it has been seen as a housing over flow and now lacks all of its charm as cars, business and generic shops take over.

Brighton is a shocker.

Not fond of Scotland. Lots of places have amazing sea and mountains but you're not stuck in the inevitable pouring behind 20 other cars all doing 39 miles an hour to get between grey dreary towns.

Blackpool jade me sad. Could be so fabulous but instead looks like some Eastern block idea of a fun town.

Milton Keynes. I wanted roundabouts and plastic cows. Looked like every other town ever.

Brighton - grimy, shabby, massive drug problems, overcrowded, overpriced

Hebdon Bridge - a couple of gift shops doesn’t boho heaven make, crowded into tiny claustrophobic valley which floods

@Byllis I agree with you about Southport - My parents made me live there for 12 years. Coming from a beautiful seaside town in Australia to Southport's 'beach'...well I can still see the disgusted look on my mother's face 40 years later!

I left 20 years ago and have only been back twice, once for my ex MIL's funeral. None of my family live there now so no need to go back ever again. I don't miss it.

The Lake District - weather has always been dreadful when I've been. Also brings back memories of driving for hours on a 'day out' with family and my mother sulking and in a foul mood as my paternal grandmother (who she loathed) had invited herself along...I also hate dogs, so yeah, no...

Edinburgh - meh. Same for most of Scotland, tbh. Glasgow - bloody horrible.

Padstow. Just too many people.

Brighton. Lived there, and would never go back, not even for a visit. What a shithole.

And absolutely crammed with wankers who think they're so interesting when really they're just knobs, and their 'alternative' town isn't that different to other places, it's just more tacky.

And the beach isn't a beach, it's just pebbles interspersed with rubbish and clouded in the stink of weed.

Hove is just as bad, except add 'wannabe snobs interspersed with poverty' onto the list.

I must be easily pleased because I love many of the places named here (albeit it surprised me that we were 12 pages in before anyone mentioned Glastonbury)!

Whitby is special, as are a lot of the wilder, more isolated places down that stretch of the coast. I like Liverpool too but further north the Lancashire coast does nothing for me.

However.

Jaywick. Okay so nobody has ever rated Jaywick and it's still overrated. That a place like that can even exist in a 21st-century, supposedly developed country defies belief. It reminds me of images I've seen of slums in India.

I am appalled at you all I can find something to love about most or these places. Central london is the only one I can think of. And edinburgh during the festival- if you're local, you just get really sick of the number of people in the way. So basically super busy places!

*Peregrina

Haworth and the Bronte industry - I really didn't like it.

I did however live just outside the quieter parts of the Peak District on the Staffs/Cheshire border, which is nice and people don't really know it, because the Peak District is Derbyshire.*
Anywhere near 3 Shires Head?
I am in the Peak District, born and bred & could never move away. To me it is the most beautiful place on earth,but 'm biased.
I also loved the IOW, Norfolk, & St Ives, but since the children have grown up we can go out of high season.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

I went back to Matlock Bath fairly recently as I really liked it recently. There were about 1000 bikers roaring along, motorbikes absolutely everywhere, I don’t know if I was just unlucky or if it’s all like that. And the woman in the pump room museum cafe thing refused to let me use the loo even though I was bursting and pregnant and offered to buy a chocolate bar but she insisted ‘sitting customers only’. The cable car was all sold out. Fish and chips are big business there even though it’s miles from the sea, and they were definitely overrated.

Ah, that's well known.

Up to 3,000 bikers every Sunday!

Another vote for Cornwall. Not worth the 9 hour trip on the train down there!

@SmidgenofaPigeon YHA Edale does en suites! I mean, it's not fancy but great value and an amazing setting, walkable to two pubs and the breakfast is good.

@NCNCNCNCNCNCNCNCNC sold

The absolute best thing about the Peak District is the Yonderman cafe outside Buxton which does the absolute best breakfasts I’ve ever had.

Brighton

Hawkshead in the Lake District and especially Beatrix potter’s house - what a let down - huge crowds and coaches etc. Nice garden though.

Cornwall - so unfriendly - and no dog-friendly safe beaches grrr.

Yorkshire dales - not enough public footpaths - ditto Norfolk - also too flat.

The people who said Dungeness, what exactly were you expecting? It’s got a nuclear power station. It’s exactly as bleak as you’d expect.

Sunderland is where hope goes to die, always taught to not breathe too deep when there in case whatever made it so miserable was catching. My dad loves the football team, but can't bear to go to the city itself and misses the Roker Park days. I didn't consider it as somewhere that anyone regarded as a good place to visit until this thread!

@bigbaggyeyes Wed 12-May-21 21:06:57
Any north east seaside towns, Whitby, Scarborough etc

Those are not North East, they're Yorkshire

Isle of Raasay - v dull, miles from nowhere and hardly any ferries so you are basically just stuck there with one boring road round and round. Sky also disappointing.