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.

@ArcheryAnnie out of interest, genuine question....what bits of Dagenham?? DH’s family live there. The best thing I can say about it is they have a nice cat.

Edinburgh is so beautiful and endlessly interesting. What a rum lot you are on this thread.

@480Widdio what’s wrong with North Yorkshire? 😂

Dartford

Who ever rated Dartford?

@Ellpellwood couldn’t agree more about Bath. I’m sure it’s beautiful if you are are tourist, but it’s rubbish to live in unless you are a baby boomer who loves the theatre. Its a bun fight for school places and kids club places, which is only set to get worse as half of London seems to have moved there in the last 12 months. And the houses are almost as expensive as London.

I kind of always expect more...sorry it's difficult to articulate.

Do you get “more” from other places?

legoland

This was the first one out of OH’s mouth when I asked him. It’s a wasp infested, over priced shithole.

This isn’t a thread about shit places. They need to actually have been rated by many people first.

What a bunch of moany old bastards you all are!!

My Dad always said 'if you can't find something good to say then don't say anything at all'

Brighton. Crowded beaches, dog shit and shit shops selling skull rings.

Somebody said Scotland I mean it's a whole country 😄

@FizzyPink @spongedog I adore the IoW, though I did not know about the helicopter!

My teenage DS loves it too. We're going (again) this year, mainly on his request.

The Sanddown zoo. Feeding the pigs at Quarr Abbey. Chips on the beach. Looking for fossils. Brading Roman Villa. Portraits in a stately home of people who aren't white, at Osbourn House. (Also the site of the best afternoon tea I have ever eaten in my life.) Being able to see stars in the sky. Tons more stuff we haven't yet done, and I am not a seaside sort of person.

@DynamoKev

also as Samuel Pepys once said: to tired of London is to tire of life...) Yeah, he’s been dead some time, hasn’t he? Hardly a good judge of the sprawling polluted shithole called London now.

Pepys lived through the Great Plague and the Fire of London, when sewage ran freely down streets and modern day knife crime has nothing on c17th London...So, maybe not that irrelevant.

@TerrifyingTart

What a bunch of moany old bastards you all are!!

My Dad always said 'if you can't find something good to say then don't say anything at all'

Arr you new to MN? Or possibly adulthood? What next, 'and my aunt always says Be Kind' .

Peak district. Grey and dreary.
Anywhere that has a Centreparcs.

@Delatron

This isn’t a thread about shit places. They need to actually have been rated by many people first.

Exactly. It’s about places you’ve put on a bit of a pedestal and end up a bit/lot disappointed with. It’s not personal and as people can see sometimes it’s something like going on a bad day that forms that opinion.

@Gemma2019

Stonehenge. It's a bit shit.

I feel the same, I just don’t see what’s so interesting about it.... an arrangement of large stones in no interesting manner.

That quote about being bored of London is being bored of life for me is nonsense. I really don’t like London. I’m not bored of it, there’s loads to do but I really really don’t like going. It’s just too busy, too noisy and too polluted. It hurts my head and it’s not like I’m from the sticks, I live in Manchester so I’m used to cities but it’s just too much in London.

@catinboots123

Brighton. Crowded beaches, dog shit and shit shops selling skull rings.

I live in Brighton and you have no idea how much of a topic dog shit is... people get proper emotional about it..

I feel the same, I just don’t see what’s so interesting about it.... an arrangement of large stones in no interesting manner.

But surely if you think meh it's just a bunch of stones, you wouldn't bother going in the first place? What else were you expecting?

I live there and I've never heard anything about dog shit! parking maybe and definitely cycle lanes but not dog shit.

Oxford for when it is so full of tourists that you can't even walk on the pavement and have to walk in the street. There are hoardes of tourist groups that take up the width of the pavement and walk slowly or suddenly stop right in front of you.

@MargateSands

Westminster Abbey. Fascinating place, I’d wanted to visit for years, utterly ruined by the hundreds and hundreds of tourists (of which I accept I was one). No time to actually stop and look at anything - would be far, far better if they limited numbers.

I had never been in, and last week, on a whim, as I was walking past after a work meeting, went in just as a service was starting. There were about 12 of us there, all socially-distanced. I am not a regular church-goer, but it really moved me.

Feeling very worried by how often bath has been mentioned. We’ve just booked a holiday house in Frome, thinking I’d always fancied seeing bath. Are there any places worth visiting (with kids) nearby? Not longleat as I’m not up for paying £126 for a family of four to visit a safari park 😀

I like a lot of places mentioned so far but we usually go out of very peak season, do a lot of research before we go and try and avoid the most touristy areas. Love Edinburgh, love Cornwall (but hate Newquay), love Peak District, love London. Had some of our best family holidays in London, free museums, brilliant parks for the kids, loads of fountains for them to play in. We spent a couple of days just finding all the water fountains the kids could play in and it was great fun, had a lovely day in Greenwich too. Had some lovely food and lovely beer.

@Mrsjayy

Somebody said Scotland I mean it's a whole country 😄

Someone else said England 😆