The poshest county in the UK?

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Which one county would you say is the outright poshest in the UK? Let’s not use Greater London here, and I know there will be social diversity in all, but which would you say is the poshest overall?
I’m going with Berkshire, darling.😂

Parts of Norfolk, maybe. King's Lynn (ironically, given the name) and Great Yarmouth are not the very first places that spring to mind when you're envisaging posh!

The thing is every county has posh parts and rough parts, it's just in some counties the posh outweighs the rough....I listed Berkshire as posh because it has Windsor and the Crown Estate but it also has Bracknell...

Essex 😁

Yes, the council is very anti-car and keeps closing important roads in the city with the result that the city centre is mostly gridlocked during the week.
They were supposed to be bringing in all-singing, all-dancing bus services. Hasn't hsppened yet and I'm not holding my breath.
Newmarket seems quite nice, it's a very prosperous 'horsey' town.

But you said Berkshire which includes Slough, Reading, Newbury, Thatcham etc.

I was thinking more Eton, Winchester.

Nothing wrong with grammar schools but they are hardly what you’d call posh,

No I think it used to be in Bucks but is now in Berks.

@Smidge001 I’m sure Slough is in Berkshire. I don’t think it’s been in Bucks since the 70’s?

Is that local knowledge? 😛

Prestbury 🤔 Congleton

Buckinghamshire

Slough hasn’t been in Bucks since 1974 when it changed to Berks

It is quite suburban in a McMansion-y kind of way.

Being expensive doesn’t stop it being suburban.

I think this thread won’t get much agreement because some people are calling £££ posh and others aren’t.

Wiltshire.

Newmarket is Suffolk though isn’t it?

Suffolk won't like Cambridgeshire trying to nick Newmarket off them, though

Edit: X-posted!

Everyone’s just naming where they live aren’t they?

I seem to recall the good people of Eton - and maybe Maidenhead too, actually - campaigning a few years back to change their Slough (SL) postcode!

Bath and North East Somerset.

It's small but parks punch. Less than 200,000 live here (mostly in Bath, Midsomer Norton and Keynsham - the rest is rural).It's a double Unesco world heritage site too because of the Roman Baths and the architecture of places like the Royal Crescent.

I second Rutland. Even though half of the people on here won't even know where it is.

I haven't gone anywhere near my own county yet! My county - in the Midlands - is, like most of the others, a place of contrasts. We have some rather posh areas (although not 'headline' posh) and some really 'earthy' places too (although, again, not 'headline' underprivileged).

Inasmuch as it isn't homogenous either, what about Northumberland? Some very posh and desirable places there!

Midsomer Norton is dog-rough, and Keynsham is a drab little town. But I am not a Bath fan.

Fife would probably try to say they’re posh just from having St Andrews. 😇🤣 DH’s ex-MIL was very much a “the students are doing WHAT?” sort of person there. 🤣

The Rutlanders are probably still shaking with ghastly shock at the very notion that they were once officially part of Leicestershire

Surrey South, Cheshire North