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.😂

Berkshire is not posh. I have lived there my whole life. Slough, Reading, Bracknell to name a few towns that are not posh.

It was Bucks until 1974 and then because Berkshire.

And Slough and Bracknell.

You have to move to West Berkshire not because it’s posh but because of its easy access to posh…within 45 - 60 mins you can day trip to the Cotswolds, get your Aga from Haslemere (and realise Surrey posh has lots of traffic and isn’t as good as WB) go shopping in Bath, sightsee in Oxford before popping to the cathedral in Winchester to cleanse your bougee soul. Amen.

Gloucestershire - Cotswolds generally.

Surrey definitely isn’t!

I live in Surrey, and i’d say that’s probably up there. Our town is a border town, so still in Zone 6, so it’s a great place to live as we have country on our doorstep (Surrey is the most wooded county in the UK) but only 30 mins direct train into London. Unfortunately, since I split with my ex 15yrs ago now, I can’t afford to buy here, so i’m biding my time until next summer when my youngest of 3 finishes sixth form and heads to uni, and i’m off to a cheaper country. Either back to my Welsh homeland, Merseyside (where my office is) or Cheshire. Don’t know how people on normal salaries manage to live in Surrey.

Hey what's wrong with Worthing ? Now Bognor......

Nope, really wouldn't name where I live much as I love it 😆

‘Posh’ does not mean the suburbs like Surrey, or footballers mansions in Cheshire or £££ monstrosities necessarily….

west sussex?

The Royal County of Berkshire 👑

It’s got to be Rutland. You have no rough towns or cities dragging the average down 😁. The villages all seem quite quaint and expensive.

I equate true poshness (not just money) with higher education levels. Just googled and highest level qualifications by county is pages and pages of London and London surrounds.
Hounslow beats Surrey!
I used to live in Hounslow and loved it but wouldn’t call it posh so my method didn’t work.

Surrey’s not posh, it’s nouveau riche.

Got to be Rutland, surely. I say that as someone who lives in Hampshire.

I live in North Yorkshire. Large areas are quietly very posh (mine is a lovely place to raise a family), others a shitshow. Most counties have similar.
It makes me laugh when some on MN describe the North, like we all live deprived lives devoid of culture, whilst living in areas they daren't walk around in after dark.

Depends if you are defining posh by money or class, surely?

Wrong, Slough is Berkshire.

It’s absolutely Rutland, no contest. Nowhere else comes close.

Rutland, although it does now have a McDonalds which lots of local people were very upset about.

Even the poshest of counties will have their rough parts… even the likes of Surrey (though i don’t know it well enough to know where).

Berkshire is groaning with castles ,a king and his relatives, country estates, lords and ladies, horse racing, mansions, top public schools, celebrities and is the home of Waitrose.

Rutland may technically by a county, but it’s an anomaly due to it’s incredibly small size at about 40,000…. When a typical county has a population of circa 1 million.

Cornwall.

Camborne and Redruth are pretty beautiful. Healthy as well, you should see the amount of people in tracksuits.

Kent/Sussex borders.