Best towns/cities in Britain

finchy
finchy Posts: 6,686
edited May 2012 in The bottom bracket
We've done the worst, now which ones are the best? I'd put Canterbury at the top of the pile despite the lack of a half-decent football team and the existence of a load of rip-off shops in the city centre. You just can't beat blasting about in the city centre on the narrow cobbled streets before the locals and tourists have woken up.
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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Southend-on-Sea

    Yeah, I know you pick bloody great holes in it, but f**k it!! It's my home town and I wouldn't be anywhere else...








    .....so there!!
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    the toon, assuming cities are allowed

    howay ya buggas, everybody get doon, it's friday neet and we're gannin to the toon

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  • Nancy Luger
    Nancy Luger Posts: 95
    whyaye bonny lad, neewhere like it.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    York, Helmsley or Crayke. All in Yorkshire, naturally.

    Can't stand Canterbury; it's full of Kents.
  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    Durham.
    "That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college! " - Homer
  • nevman
    nevman Posts: 1,611
    Harrogate is very civilised,great cake shop and access to the Dales-perfect then for cyclisters.
    Whats the solution? Just pedal faster you baby.

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  • Wirral_paul
    Wirral_paul Posts: 2,476
    Oakham (Rutland) - the only town i'd actually move back to after leaving
  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    York or Bristol.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Cardiff has pretty much anything you'd want.
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  • Rigged
    Rigged Posts: 214
    Bristol is right up there for me. There's a fair few places I'd be more than happy to live, though!
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Aviva, A Fine City.
  • kev77
    kev77 Posts: 433
    Only one for me, my beloved Warrington!

    ;-)
  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    I like Harrogate a lot.

    Padstow is tops too.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    kev77 wrote:
    Only one for me, my beloved Warrington!

    ;-)

    dont people have gills behind their ears in Warrington?

    for that reason im out
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    York and Chester are the two places I would happily go for a weekend break.

    I really like Dartmouth other than the crappy parking. Padstow and Salcombe are both lovely but spoiled by the city slickers who laud it over everyone.

    I'm surprised by people saying Bristol, I worked there for 10 years and don't think it's anything special although it's improved a bit since the new shopping centre opened and brought a bit of life back to the city centre. I think Cardiff is a far better city though.
  • byke68
    byke68 Posts: 1,070
    Halstead, Sudbury and Hadleigh for me!
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Why can't people tell the difference between a town and a city? :lol: For info, Cardiff, York, Chester, Durham and Canterbury are cities - not towns! To the Dunce corner for those who know who they are!

    Anyway, for a start, look at the list here. It isn't exactly a list of the best (Devizes isn't that special for a start) but he makes a good case!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Clifton-Taylor
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Rolf F wrote:
    Why can't people tell the difference between a town and a city? :lol: For info, Cardiff, York, Chester, Durham and Canterbury are cities - not towns! To the Dunce corner for those who know who they are!

    Anyway, for a start, look at the list here. It isn't exactly a list of the best (Devizes isn't that special for a start) but he makes a good case!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Clifton-Taylor

    Newport is a city but still got plenty of mentions in the worst town thread (justifiably!).

    If we are going for towns and just towns then Dartmouth is my choice.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Although i love where I live part of me still hankers after the town I grew up in, Eastbourne. Yes I know it's full of old people waiting for God but the countryside around is lovely and varied and all my old mates are still around. Other than that it's Limmasol, Cyprus my mums home town(bugger, just realised it's meant to be in UK!)
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rolf F wrote:
    Why can't people tell the difference between a town and a city? :lol: For info, Cardiff, York, Chester, Durham and Canterbury are cities - not towns! To the Dunce corner for those who know who they are!

    Anyway, for a start, look at the list here. It isn't exactly a list of the best (Devizes isn't that special for a start) but he makes a good case!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Clifton-Taylor

    Fixed for the pedant. :P
  • kev77
    kev77 Posts: 433
    mudcow007 wrote:
    kev77 wrote:
    Only one for me, my beloved Warrington!

    ;-)

    dont people have gills behind their ears in Warrington?

    for that reason im out

    Don't you lot in dirtyside have wool on your back?

    :wink:
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    johnfinch wrote:
    Fixed for the pedant. :P

    Dammit! I'm a pedant but I can't see what you fixed :lol:
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Look very, very carefully. And don't focus too much on one part of the page.
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    You see I quite like Monmouth. It's pretty unique (I once read it had the most independent shops of anywhere in the UK, dunno if that's still true), great cycling both on road and off + loads of other outdoory pursuits. 20 miles to the nearest motorway too.

    There's a load of nice towns running up the Marches - Ross, Hay, Ludlow etc. Haven't lived in any of them and I expect they're sickeningly dull.
  • nathancom
    nathancom Posts: 1,567
    I am surprised Edinburgh hasn't had a mention. It's a great place to live, everything on the doorstep just needs to be a couple of degrees hotter.
  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    nathancom wrote:
    I am surprised Edinburgh hasn't had a mention. It's a great place to live, everything on the doorstep just needs to be a couple of degrees hotter.

    Yes but then everyone would want some...

    I like the look of Brighton and Kendal.
    @surroundedbh
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    kev77 wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:
    kev77 wrote:
    Only one for me, my beloved Warrington!

    ;-)

    dont people have gills behind their ears in Warrington?

    for that reason im out

    Don't you lot in dirtyside have wool on your back?

    :wink:

    oh your getting yourself all muddled up with Widnes.....
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Shrewsbury in (Shropshire ..... Cycling Heaven), well in the UK anyway...... or
    Ludlow in yes you guessed it Shropshire.

    Shrewsbury:- http://www.picturesofengland.com/Englan ... es/1130532

    Ludlow:- http://www.picturesofengland.com/Englan ... es/1019649

    I'm lucky to live just 8 miles from Shrewsbury :)
  • kev77
    kev77 Posts: 433
    mudcow007 wrote:
    kev77 wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:
    kev77 wrote:
    Only one for me, my beloved Warrington!

    ;-)

    dont people have gills behind their ears in Warrington?

    for that reason im out

    Don't you lot in dirtyside have wool on your back?

    :wink:

    oh your getting yourself all muddled up with Widnes.....

    Me? Muddled? Not a chance
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    johnfinch wrote:
    Look very, very carefully. And don't focus too much on one part of the page.

    D'oh! Got you now. But it was better just as towns. Cities are kind of too easy. Mostly the nice cities are well known for being nice and the duff ones well known for being duff. So you just get arguments from, for example, people living in Liverpool trying to make out it somehow isn't a total dump despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise! :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......

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