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.

Most over rated place in Australia - The Great Barrier Reef
The beautiful colours you see in photos. ... all we saw was sand, and Sandy coloured coral. Cost over $300 to go snorkelling there.

Clapham
Fulham
“North Kensington” aka Acton
East Dulwich

I’m screaming NOOOO for all the mentions of Peak District places, I love them all, bakewell, Buxton, Matlock, chatsworth. Love them. The cable place is awful though. Awful. Both my boys got food poisoning from the sausage and chips in the cage there:

@GiveMyHeadPeaceffs thanks, I'll be sure to tell DH it would be a terrible mistake to do this.

Definitely Brighton.
Filthy dirty place.
Can't sit on the beach without the stench of people smoking weed.
Tents with homeless people set up permanently outside shops on the high street.
So overrated!

Brighton IMO is very over-rated. Lots of it looks like a building site and there is rubbish and litter everywhere. I was so disappointed.

@OssieShowman Read the title. It's the most over-rated place in the UK. Mind you if you asked for the most over rated place in the world...I'd say Australia would be well up there.

PS I was on the GBR when it was fantastic. I've seen it since and it is heartbreaking I agree.

Glasgow. Totally over-rated. Rough and chavvy.

I loved central London when I lived there but not now. It is full of foreign beggars, litter, it's scruffy and expensive.

Can't see how Blackpool is over-rated. It's reputation has been in the gutter for years.

@LuluJakey1

I loved central London when I lived there but not now. It is full of foreign beggars, litter, it's scruffy and expensive.

I think years of austerity have done that to many towns and cities, tbh.

Can’t think of anywhere rubbish in UK but willing to warn you all that Cape Cod in US is total pants. Unless you get to the parking lot at 7 am you can’t access the beach.

Stroud

I know it's a Mumsnet favourite, but I have no idea why. Sure, the countryside is nice, but it's nice in other parts of the Cotswolds without the eyesore that is Stroud there.

Stroud is run down, tired, and just very sad looking. The town centre is just depressing, with no decent architectural buildings. The only good feature is the second hand bookshop on Nelson Street. I'll never understand the love for Stroud.

I also find Oxford and Cheltenham completely overrated too.

The Peak District is beautiful

Remember being struck by Stonehenge when I was a kid, but it was just stones in a field, which you actually had to put some effort into to get to. Imagine! very atmospheric, then it got a car park and ropes and bellls on which aneathetised it, and ruined it. That’s why I like Scotland. Castles and ruins everywhere an no one has put fences round and a ticket office and ruined it. Yet, anyway.
Most towns in the uk, well, I’m not an expert, but appalling planning and utterly, utterly boring chain stores. The same in every town. I mean, why?
Modern housing estates - built in long straight streets with no alleys or variations. And again, why? Surely it’s not that hard to look at environments that are conducive to being happy and take some of those bits?

@HOkieCOkie

Any of those god awful chav resorts like Pontins and Butliins.

Though why do people like/ dislike Edinburgh? Only cos I need tips on where to go!

To be fair this is why we say that people in West Bridgford put lard on their bread. Basically to mean they think they are better than they actually are.

The Park is ok but some of houses on Tennis Drive are ugly and actually a crime against architecture.

I will say Peak District because I'm fed up of the people that visit and don't give a shot about the area - dropping litter, parking very selfishly and generally getting in the way.

@Spied

Durham. Amazing Cathedral and close to Northumberland and Newcastle but as a City in its own right it's really grim. Very little to do in the City itself and all the shops are closed down or charity shops.

Agree, Durham lacks many things considering it has city status, other areas in Co Durham are bigger and offer far more than just pubs for the students.

Stratford On Avon, boring place. After a few hours, we were ready to go home.

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow I live near you! Yes nothing interesting in Co Durham, none of you will like it

There's something uptight and unimaginative about it. It's not... warm

Exactly that about Edinburgh - I mean Central as I know some suburbs are more quirky and charrming. It's not warm because it's dominated by samey grey stone, imposing buioldings and on a grey day when I last visited (summer so not as bad as winter) it was just looking grey and cold.
It needs some colour but Georgian buiildings are not colourful and en masse it's just too much grey. At least Bath has more greenery / more crescents

Birmingham is not over rated as it's never really been rated , so the poster missed the point of the thread about places people rave about!.

Clapham
Fulham
“North Kensington” aka Acton
East Dulwich

Never knew Acton was called that, are you sure? there's nothing 'kensington' about it - Kensignton is one of hte most architecturally beautiful places in the UK - what a bore Acton is (and nowhere to go out there either).
Agree that Fulham is well overated for the price you pay - small cramped terraces, narrow streets, a few nicer bits, main roads always chokablock. It does have some very good upmarket pubs - that's the one good bit, and probably the most well-spoken voices you can find in any one place in those pubs. High street is shit - dusty narrow pavements and a rat run for traffic.
I do like Clapham though! (the best parts, as i's quite vast)