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.😂

Nah, Kent is screwed over by Medway
I grew up there..it's known for drugs and chavs.

Smart is what smart people call posh which is a word they would never use.
its a social minefield 🤣

There’s sections of many of the mentioned counties but all have much rougher underbellies too. Oxford its self has tough neighbourhoods, Gloucestershire has parts I would not recommend living, Surrey has very dodgy bits and so on. Tiny Rutland even isn’t all public schools!

Henley is Oxfordshire.

Surrey came to mind first.

I'd say Durham is the least posh

I’d make the case for Norfolk. Lots of “old” money but lots of wealthy Home Counties folk in and around north and west Norfolk and a sprinkling of the super rich and arty. The rest of the county is pretty well to do. Norwich is naice. The only slight fly in the ointment is Yarmouth but that is miles from anywhere 😂

You're right - my mistake! Some of the postal addresses still use Surrey despite being in a London Borough.

Doesn’t it have Scarborough though? And Selby? 😁

Surrey

Outrageous that Hampshire has got no love on this thread!

We call them “ancestral trousers” 😂 The more dirty they are, the posher the wearer 😂

Slough used to be Bucks but now is Berks.

Moved to a south bucks village a few years ago, it is a lovely area to live

Warwickshire

Hard question to answer if you haven’t lived EVERYWHERE… But, Rutland is far from poshest in the country 😂

Middlesbrough/stockton/hartlepool.

So posh, they don’t have to follow the conventions of actually being in a county. They’re like royalty. Different rules to the plebs.

Lots of interesting thoughts. If you’ve mentioned ‘celebs’ and ‘footballers’ as part of the reasoning then yeah, not posh😂

Essex, Cheshire and Kent are extremely wealthy in parts but not at all posh.

I grew up in one of those ‘tougher’ Oxford suburbs. (And live up in the Cotswoldy bit now) None of them are as bad as people make out. Love where I grew up and still hang out there. The whole county is probably quite posh and desirable comparatively. The history makes it feel so.

But I’d probably go Buckinghamshire or Surrey tbh. Possibly Cornwall.

The poshest people I know (family crest, family tartan, landed-gentry-type-posh) do live in Oxon but are from Lincolnshire so perhaps that’s the real answer!

Surrey and Berkshire tied.

We needed a poll OP!

Ooh I forgot lovely Hampshire, Winchester and the surrounding villages are rather posh!

I live in Cambridge which would be posh (based on house prices) but much of Cambridgeshire is remarkably deprived eg Fenland, Peterborough.

BTW your choice of Berkshire has Slough - Deffo not posh.

I would go with Buckinghamshire and Surrey.

Herefordshire

I grew up in Cambridgeshire actually South Cambridgeshire which tends to feature in those best places to live magazine articles. I looked up the demographics of the village my parents lived in and it has the most weird statistics. The average educational qualification was PhD! I'm assuming it's something to do with its proximity to Cambridge. I know my Gran lived next to a retired Professor and her deputy as chair of the parish Council was another professor.
Maybe not posh but certainly knew how to spell. Gran still ran the village though.

Royal County of Berkshire

Cause I've heard posh people say it out loud and it sounds very posh

Yeah this is the point I made earlier, every county will have a posh and rough area..

Definitely not!

Rutland.