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.

The countryside

[quote SmidgenofaPigeon]@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.[/quote]
The bits where you can see the massive wind turbines! And the big skies you get there. Valence House is nice, too.

(And the view of my plate when I visit my ex-MIL, the best cook in east London...)

Bakewell. I love the puddings, but you can now buy them online. Much better than going there.

OMG all those people saying Edinburgh! YA so BU!

I love Glasgow too - but of all the places to mention in the UK astonished anyone would start with Edinburgh.

I really like Edinburgh. And I loved Belfast, but the Giant’s Causeway wasn’t all that, but that’s because they let everyone clamber all over it, so you just totally lose all of the atmosphere of the place.

None of the above.

And as for Stonehenge being even mentioned - words fail me.

Scottish Highlands, we went for our honeymoon and it doesn't help that we had a week in the Lake District first.
I kept comparing them and the Highlands are just so vast and bleak, mile after mile of nothing, hardly any quaint villages and a nightmare to find somewhere to exercise the dogs because even if you managed to find somewhere to park it was all so boggy.

The exception to the bleakness though was Arisaig beach, which was stunning.

My living room. Seriously I paid 350k for a house in the London commuter belt and my living room is shite...

@Mylittleponysuperfan

York-it’s overrated and busy all the time-don’t stop or you’ll get knocked over (I used to live there) Scarborough-dirty,over priced tat and crappy beach Peterborough-it just stank,it was an odd whiff like everyone had stood in the city centre and did one long collective fart London-dirty and busy Whitby-bloody lovely place-shame that there are are so many hills and once you’ve spent about 8 hours there you run out of things to see Bridlington-see Whitby minus the hilly bits Harrogate-so snobby-we hung around for about 4 hours then left after the locals had looked us up and down Leeds-a shittier version of York

At last!! Someone's mentioned Bridlington feck all to do here. Although in summer when the sea is calm and the sun is shining onto it driving or walking from the north side over to the south side is lovely especially when the tide is in harbour and all the boats are in. The sea one day last week was a lovely milky colour and contrasted against the dull sky it looked beautiful.

St.ives. recently visited there and left after a day.

Whitstable. Long high street full of traffic, stony beaches and over priced food. It's so fashionable, but I don't understand it at all.

Isles of Scilly. I mean they are nice but 7 days is enough for a lifetime.

@MasterBeth

West Bridgford.

This suburb of Nottingham will mean nothing to most of you but to the people of Nottingham it is the Fulham, the Altrincham, the Morningside, the St Albans, the Leamington, the Clifton (Bristol one) of the East Midlands. Apparently.

It is supposedly very Mumsnet and naive and desirable, but you’d be hard pressed to find anything remarkable about it - a pretty ugly main street filled with midmarket chain restaurants, no decent pubs, uniform Victorian streets and peopled with rather too many self-satisfied arseholes. Not awful, but awfully overrated.

I might have to disagree with you here.

West Bridgford really isn't as overrated as somewhere like The Park. Take what you said about West Bridgford and double it.

We lived there for a few years and it was definitely an overrated area to live.

For those not familiar with the area, if West Bridgford is the "Altrincham" of the East Midlands then The Park is more Hale Barns or Bowdon.

[quote SuziQuatrosFatNan]@Stoppissingonmyheather this is The People's Friend. Featuring .. York.[/quote]
Hmm crochet a wreath okaaaaay

@Mylittleponysuperfan

Peterborough-it just stank,it was an odd whiff like everyone had stood in the city centre and did one long collective fart

I'm not disagreeing with you one bit, but just what were you actually expecting?

As the OP said:-

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

@Fixitup2
Exactly. It’s about places you’ve put on a bit of a pedestal and end up a bit/lot disappointed with.

Now, if you had previously put Peterborough up on a pedestal then I could understand your comment but, seriously, is Peterborough rated highly?

On the other hand, places like Hale Barns or Bowdon actually are seriously overrated.

@Mylittleponysuperfan

Peterborough-it just stank,it was an odd whiff like everyone had stood in the city centre and did one long collective fart

Sorry for doing a double post.

Your comment just made me think. If this was quite a few years ago then British Sugar used to have a large sugar beet processing factory in Peterborough and every year when the sugar beet campaign was under way there would be a terrible smell from the factory when the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.

Perhaps that was the cause of the smell?

I disagree with you about Peterborough. DH lived there when we first met. It's never had any kind of reputation but I found parts of it surprisingly pleasant.
The stink, though, is the dog food factory, which does indeed smell awful when the wind is blowing in the wrong direction.

The South - mainly the south east but not blown away by Devon and Cornwall either tbh. Overcrowded, scenery nothing to write home about, bit dirty, expensive and the people generally not that friendly. I just dont get it.

IOW, feels so dated.

earthyfire that's a feature of the IoW, not a bug!

Devon and Cornwall are pretty, but there are prettier parts of Britain. But all the well off senior staff in the company I work for head off there to stay in a cottage.

Interesting people think London's dirty, yes Oxford Street is a dump and small pockets are but on the whole when you compare it to other large cities world wide (not UK) I think it's very clean.