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.

Another vote for Durham. There is just nothing to do…

These threads always go well 🍿

York. Grew up there and moved away a few years ago. Really don't see the appeal. Can't see me ever moving back.

London (yes, all of it )
Cornwall

Lake District - the nice bits are incredibly busy, the not nice bits are grim. It rains all the time.

Edinburgh - overpriced & not as fancy as it thinks it is

Manchester - too many ugly developments and the traffic is horrendous

I forgot: North Wales

I love London.
Disliked Brighton and Torquay and thought Dublin was overrated. I’ve loved everywhere else I’ve visited.

Any castle in North Wales that charges for entry.
I may have seen too much of them due to a brother who was obsessed. Actually correct that to I definitely saw too much, the parents always nearly fainted at the price being charged to get in, then, totally out of character, anyway. Bearing in mind that the same parents would drive 20 miles to avoid a 5p toll road, or park an hour away and walk to avoid paying 20p for parking it was certainly a waste of money taking me in let alone everyone else.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

I don’t think it’s really even possible to say ‘London’ because you should be specific. What bits? They’re all different 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m saying Brighton. Wanky and grimy.

agreed. not sure you can really say london - inner london is very different to parts on the outer skirts

(also as Samuel Pepys once said: to tired of London is to tire of life...)

Dublin isn’t actually in the U.K...

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Stone Henge is just a NT scam.

Too right. Most people don't realise that the stones were concreted in less than 100 years ago and haven't been naturally standing as they now do for 100s/1,000s of years.

Yes, the stones themselves are ancient, but that's the nature of all stones/rocks, surely?!

Noooooooooooo

Harrogate. Mass migration from London because it is so lovely- no it isn't the mass arrival of Londoners have destroyed what was a lovely town.

Cornwall through and through.

I’m so surprised at the number of people unimpressed with York! It just shows, each to their own!

Windsor. (During non COVID times) full of drunks in the evenings and heaving with coach parties during the day.

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.

Pretty much everywhere. The UK is so overcrowded that the nice places have been ruined. It's hardly surprising. If you have too many people crammed on a small, grey island, they are going to want to live in the nice bits. Everywhere is now circled by housing estates jammed full of tiny, overpriced rabbit hutches. My cousin lives in a small Surrey village. Even when he moved there it was overcrowded, with too many houses and too many cars. Now they've got the green light to build another 5,000 homes! I also have a friend who lives in Cornwall. She dreads the summer because her little town grinds to a halt.

I think if you grew up in a place, you are more likely to see the downsides. Tourist places off season can be a bit depressing. Not any better in season either, often.

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.

Cornwall. Particularly, St Ives.

@Gottalovesummer

Bristol

I've been visiting for years as have family and friends there.

It gets raved about as a cool place to live but I just can't see why.

I agree! I lived there for the first 18 years of my life and can’t stand the place! My parents are still there so I have to go back every now and then.

I think it’s one of those places that’s very cool and trendy if you are a student (much like Cambridge, which I live near now). The area my parents still live in is considered very trendy and up and coming these days so prices have gone through the roof - I keep trying to convince them to sell up!

"Bristol: Full of tedious rich kids who think liking bristol is a personality trait"

@lastqueenofscotland This applies to some of the current student population/alumni of Bristol University. There is real poverty in areas of Bristol; and a high number of homeless citizens/rough sleepers.

@Tossblanket

Newquay.

Thought is was a shithole.

It has significant social deprivation

English Heritage can stick it up their arse.
£200, piss wet through, half the tour in the wrong bus with a Chinese group and then just slipping that in.

@SafferUpNorth

Land's End.... grim, commercialised tourist trap. In a lovely spot though. Overall I love Cornwall but Lands End is just depressing.

Good call.

@adawong

London

This