What places in the UK have weirded you out?

[Oollliivviiaa]

I know Glastonbury and Bath always come up but where else have you been that just felt "off". Not scary or unsafe as such, just made you feel unwelcome and want to leave. And logically, WHY do you think they do?

Mine are

• Glasgow Centeal station. I've been to lots of stations at all sorts of times but this station always makes me uneasy even during the day when it's busy. Maybe it's because it's such an odd station and easy to get disoriented in.

And

• Berwick on Tweed. Really, really weird vibes there. People were nice enough but it felt a bit like there was some sort of sinister undercurrent. Why? I actually don't know. All I can think of is that it feels quite isolated and a bit like the edge of the world. Maybe the history of the place, means it feels like a no man's land? I know lots of people really like it.

And

• Holy Island. The history, bleakness and again, isolation I think. Plus when we went, all you could hear was the wind and seals which is a bit spooky. I liked it there though.

Perth, Scotland.

Definitely agree with Dungeness, it's so eerie, I need to go back there again, felt like the land that time forgot

London. Just feels bleak and self-absorbed, plus it has a very unpleasant sweet/putrid smell noticeable as soon as you step off the train - you acclimatise to it after a day, but I can smell it on my clothes returning north, and I smell it on visitors from London. Oh, and the water is absolutely foul, I have no idea how Londoners' cope with this.

Silloth, Cumbria - it's the west coast version of Dungeness
Saddleworth Moor - not just for the historical perspective, but it always appears dark and menacing even in sunshine

Totally agree with Hastings AND St Leonard's - both utter, absolute, complete and total holes full of dilapidated houses covered in peeling paint, an incomprehensible road system and crap beaches. The whole area feels desolate and hopeless.

Tobermory.
We went on a day trip there about 10 years ago, when we went to Oban.
It was the strangest day I have ever had. There was some sort of time slip there. I'm not even joking 🙈

It was the most beautiful place, but I'm almost scared to go back.

I can’t speak for others, but I often feel very lethargic and not at my best in Bath. I think it might be to do with the position of the land. It’s a lovely city but I’ve never really enjoyed it as much as I thought I should.

The place that weirded me out though was a village called Black Dog in Devon. I had nightmares every night that I stayed there, which stopped as soon as I left.

Underground in the Cabinet War Rooms in London - left just as they were in 1945. Utterly fascinating whilst also giving me the creeps!
https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/cabinet-war-rooms

Traitors Gate at the Tower of London - I can barely look at it without shivering.

Chertsey, no idea why but to me it has an American 80’s horror movie vibe.

Tintagel and Glencoe have both made me feel very sad, though for very different reasons.
London (yes, all of it) makes me feel very small and insignificant and disconnected from humanity.

St Anthony's Chapel ruin on Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh.
I used to live in Edinburgh as a teen and always felt a bit weird about the chapel and one day I was up there and peered through one of the holes into the interior stonework and saw a face looking back at me - took me a few seconds to click that it wasn't a mirror and that it really was an inquisitive face looking back at me and had clear facial features and was leaning towards me - I ran all of the way from Arthurs Seat to The Pleasence!!
Never been back since.

Also the entire area around Cowgate, Grassmarket, Greyfriars and George IV Bridge - it's just a forboding, sad area and when you think about its history, there's been a LOT of death and suffering there and there was also once an asylum close to Greyfriars near Candlemaker Row and South Bridge.
Even in modern day, there's been quite a few suicides and accidental deaths in that particular area.

I get told I'm an empath and I honestly can't bear to go back to that area, despite being so interested in the history and architecture - I always felt so overwhelmed, spooked out, grief-stricken and physically ill when I was in that area.

You didn't.

Thorpness. Always gives me a Step ford wives vibe.

Stroud. I’ve never been anywhere else that seems to have a conspiracy to be utterly sexless. It was the most po faced sexless place, amazed me that people talked about the food market and hippie vibe, when actually the mood is so Bromide Zombie.

Kinlochleven. It’s nestled down low surrounded by mountains; I felt like they were closing in on me. Very claustrophobic.

Rhyl made me feel really uneasy and sad I love North Wales but there was something odd and I know it’s very run down but it wasn’t that

also Cockermouth, was totally deserted

Harlow, Essex

Driving through Worcestershire to visit a friend in hospital, it felt eerie. Around Pershore, I think?

Southampton. Really horrible place, at least the part I was in.

Leicester..
I couldn't shake the feeling of being buried in cold black earth ..weird I know.

Savernake often comes up on threads like this because there's a notorious MN post about a weird experience someone had in the forest.

Someone above mentioned Saddleworth Moor, agree with this but I think it's almost inevitable because of the associations. I don't think anyone who grew up in Manchester in the 60s/70s could cross Saddleworth Moor without being creeped out.

I once had to cycle through Delamere forest on a 100 mile sportive and it felt very sinister. I'm not keen on forests at the best of times, and much prefer moors and the top of hills, but this gave me the creeps.

Funnily enough, I like Todmorden, which another poster put. It does feel a bit weird as it's in a valley and gets very little sunlight.

Oh OP, I've a weekend in Berwick on Tweed coming up with a stop off at Holy Island planned on the way home!

Any suburb where all the houses and streets seem identical are a bit disconcerting. I feel like there's no landmarks or distinguishing features.

I found New York quite weird as well, the grid system made everything seem too, I don't know...I remember not understanding how I got off the subway on a station with the name of a street, which was a number, but it was about seven miles from the same station name with the same street number but in a different coloured line?! Gawd I think I'm just daft maybe.

I quite like brutalist architecture and industrial structures so love things like the Thames barrier, old cooling towers, power stations, dungeness, isle of grain. My dad was an engineer who built oil rigs/platforms so maybe that's why?

I'm in agreement on Harrogate feeling off. I feel the genteel tea shop vibe is anachronistic and fake. Feels very whitewashed to me.

Students, mainly.