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Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 06:35

Surrey is very much flash the cash whether you have it or not which I always think is not particularly posh.

OneLemonGuide · 11/04/2025 06:36

midlandsmummy123 · 11/04/2025 00:58

Can't believe Essex hasn't been mentioned, four of the best Grammar schools in the country, plenty of mansions, top restaurants etc but actually I do think that Essex has a different feel to the home counties.

Really? Essex may have posh parts - it’s bound to given its size, but overall Essex is probably the least posh county - rich in parts maybe, but not posh…

Lilyhatesjaz · 11/04/2025 06:38

Another vote for cornwall.
St austell and Bodmin.

OneLemonGuide · 11/04/2025 06:38

SiobhanSharpe · 11/04/2025 00:32

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.

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Newmarket is actually in Suffolk.

Toddlerteaplease · 11/04/2025 06:38

Rutland.

OneLemonGuide · 11/04/2025 06:40

Smarties2 · 11/04/2025 00:36

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

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Berkshire doesn’t actually exist any more, apart from as a historical county, so it’s a moot point to ask whether Slough is in it.

Historically though, I believe it was.

Meredusoleil · 11/04/2025 06:47

Surrey has Croydon in it.
Enough said me thinks!

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 11/04/2025 06:50

EconomyClassRockstar · 11/04/2025 00:47

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

I agree. A very high concentration of men wearing red trousers.

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 06:51

Surrey has Croydon in it.

Not for decades

Enough said me thinks!

Croydon is a borough, some of it is fine, some isn't.

durchwaffles · 11/04/2025 06:54

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 06:51

Surrey has Croydon in it.

Not for decades

Enough said me thinks!

Croydon is a borough, some of it is fine, some isn't.

Yeah I agree @Trumpsgoneloco some parts of south Croydon are lovely

ivegotthekeyivegotthesecret · 11/04/2025 06:56

Another vote for Rutland.

Old money a plenty.

Tubs11 · 11/04/2025 06:58

Where's Milton Keynes again?

puffyisgood · 11/04/2025 06:58

it's Bucks, not even close.

RitaAndFrank · 11/04/2025 06:59

I see Surrey as a bit Margot Leadbetter / Hyacinth Bucket.
Hertfordshire and Cheshire as a bit footballers’ wives.
Loads of money but not ‘posh’.

’Posh’ counties, IMO, are Rutland, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, parts of Norfolk and parts of Gloucestershire.

WutheringBites · 11/04/2025 07:07

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 11/04/2025 00:46

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!

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Ascot was also an SL postcode. And sunningdale

Secretsquirels · 11/04/2025 07:11

memoriesofamiga · 10/04/2025 23:01

Oxfordshire in my experience.

I live in Oxfordshire and there are some very posh bits, people with big country estates, lots of old families and tradition.

22% of children in Oxfordshire live in food poverty so there is also a second, much more challenging side.

grannycake · 11/04/2025 07:13

I love Northumberland but did get strong feudal vibes from many of the areas we visited

ProfessionalPirate · 11/04/2025 07:13

despairdespair · 10/04/2025 23:19

Kent,we have the best schools,and I live in a bubble where the celebrities live in a road that homes are worth 5-7 million quid. Lovely neighbours,so absolutely not bothered.
They are just people who go to same supermarkets and walk their friendly dogs.

I wouldn’t say generally wealthy / celebrities = posh though, quite the opposite!

ProfessionalPirate · 11/04/2025 07:15

RitaAndFrank · 11/04/2025 06:59

I see Surrey as a bit Margot Leadbetter / Hyacinth Bucket.
Hertfordshire and Cheshire as a bit footballers’ wives.
Loads of money but not ‘posh’.

’Posh’ counties, IMO, are Rutland, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, parts of Norfolk and parts of Gloucestershire.

Agree with this, probably add parts of North Yorkshire to the list too.

Sugargliderwombat · 11/04/2025 07:15

Delphigirl · 10/04/2025 23:16

Oxfordshire
Nobody smart lives in Surrey

That's funny, I don't think of smart as a feature of being posh at all.

sophiasnail · 11/04/2025 07:15

North Yorkshire. It's not the loud, brash, posh of most of these places mentioned.

BG2015 · 11/04/2025 07:18

Cheshire - loads of footballers live in Wilmslow, Alderly Edge. Lots of expensive houses.

WillimNot · 11/04/2025 07:20

Eyes98 · 10/04/2025 22:57

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.😂

Depends which bit of Berkshire.
Slough is awful now sadly, I think it was voted the saddest place to live in the UK recently

Parts of Reading are awful, crime ridden
Yes you Sonning and Henley but most of the rest is trying to stay posh and failing. I've lived across Berkshire for 20 years and it's definitely losing the posh undertones now.

ProfessionalPirate · 11/04/2025 07:21

BG2015 · 11/04/2025 07:18

Cheshire - loads of footballers live in Wilmslow, Alderly Edge. Lots of expensive houses.

That makes it the opposite of posh

Delphigirl · 11/04/2025 07:21

WillimNot · 11/04/2025 07:20

Depends which bit of Berkshire.
Slough is awful now sadly, I think it was voted the saddest place to live in the UK recently

Parts of Reading are awful, crime ridden
Yes you Sonning and Henley but most of the rest is trying to stay posh and failing. I've lived across Berkshire for 20 years and it's definitely losing the posh undertones now.

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If you think Henley is in Berkshire you haven’t been paying attention!