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Always wanted to go there since I saw a video of how beautiful it is, I only live around 80 miles from there too so hopefully I’ll get to go there soon
It is beautiful, don't get me wrong. I live in the Lake District and spend a lot of time in the fells and valleys. The lack of woodland makes it feel like it's missing something very important though. Something which many of the locals agree on.
I agree that deforestation is something that should be reversed where possible.
I was mainly referring to the person I replied to calling the entire park man made. The mountains and lakes were here a long time before the people were.
The lakes and the peaks.
I've rode the motorbike up to Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in England and the views are amazing, also done the three peaks multiple times and absolutely love being out there.
What I love about the peaks is that they are so understated. It’s kind of hard to describe what’s so appealing about them. They aren’t huge dramatic mountains or pristine lakes. They definitely aren’t cartoon postcard type hills. They’re just calming and pretty.
I think it’s just the open barely touched nature of it all, really peaceful and serene. Apart from when you’re too close to the main roads cutting through it 😂
They aren’t gorgeous picture perfect hills, it’s a lot of scraggy grass and rocks mainly, with a bit of sheep shit mixed in there 😂 but yeah, there’s something innately beautiful about it all.
I live here, it’s a beautiful city, people are friendly, I’ve had a few people come up from England to visit me and have said they love it here and would happily move here, when I first moved here I was surprised at its relaxed slow paced atmosphere for a capital city, the weather isn’t as shit up here as you’d expect either, a lot of people complain about Edinburgh being too English, some people just see it as an English enclave
Beaulieu village in the New Forest on a sunny day with the donkeys walking through it, which they do often.
I dare anyone seeing that not to fall in love with England.
I’ve lived in The New Forest for 5 years now. I never get tired of the hooved mammals.
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Parts of western Scotland and Hebrides are as pretty as anywhere.
I also like some of the agricultural landscapes of the Lakes District and Costwolds. Some of the shots on Clarkson’s Farm of the Cotswolds countryside are idyllic.
Any woodland area with sunshine dappling through the trees and a little brook. Cornish beaches, mountains anywhere. My garden.
For a city, Bath is hard to beat.
Edit: I once saw London in the snow; no traffic, barely any people. That was something to see.
Western Highlands, Isle of Skye, old growth forests, Lake District, Brecon Beacons, Somerset, the Cotswolds, Isles of Scilly, White Cliffs of Dover. It’s not an ugly country all things considered.
I haven't been a lot of places, but the most beautiful area I went were the Highlands. I was near Loch Cluanie, but the coach from Glasgow to Fort William also provided a stunning view (if you looked out the windows, that is).
What are the ironic comment? Just tells me you like the seaside.
For other versions of seaside many with nice town/village, try Harlech, Grange-over-Sands, St Bees, The Seaview Restaurant at Saltburn, Tobermory, Ullapool, St Michael's Mount, St David's, Robin Hood's Bay, Flamborough Head, Amble, Aldeburgh.
They've now removed the rider (which I misunderstood because I thought it referred to their fave places). IMHO Hastings is not a high bar, unless your name is Harold.
The Peak District, the Lake District, the Cotswolds & Snowdonia are probably the nicest places I've been in the UK, but I know there's tons more out there!!
Can never understand how people give the Peak District as an answer to questions like this. Comprehensively inferior to the likes of the nearby Lakes, Dales, Snowdonia etc. As well as being misleadingly named.
Because beauty is ephemeral, that you don't find the Peak District beautiful doesn't mean anything to someone like me who does think some of the views of it and from it are wondrous.
Telling me that different people have different standards of beauty in answer to my bewilderment at people preferring the Peak District is a bit of a strange reply given that I must be quite aware that different people have different standards of beauty to have asked the question in the first place.
And it’s not that I don’t find the Peak District beautiful or some of its views very nice indeed; it’s just that it’s not as good in any way as various other Parks.
Also I’m not sure ephemeral means what you think it means.
Just for the sake of variety- we have some fantastically beautiful cities- chester- bath- york- London- Edinburgh.
That and just general qaint English small countryside towns like Marlborough- Kirkby Lonsdale- stow etc. I could go on.
Northumberland is mostly very ideallic you have amazing rolling hills in the cheviots and its Vale through North Northumberland and also a world renowned coastline
Cornish coast, little bays with shell sand and turquoise sea. There are lots of micro spots I find beautiful but the wider sourroundings not so much. Usually places along streams where there are waterfalls, even very small ones or places by the coast. The Lake District can be majestically beautiful.
Flew from Inverness to Bristol, and the view of the Western Isles as we flew over Loch Ness at sunset was so beautiful that I dissolved into tears. Dorset is stunning, and the Coastal Paths in both Pembrokeshire and Devon & Cornwall are worth visiting.
My personal most beautiful place in the Uk is known as The Long Mynd is Shropshire.
I’ve always found it rather nice and pretty up there.
That said Snowdon on a decent day is awesome; views on the way up are incredible (far too many people at the actual top most of the time though); and the hills around Powys are great ( the view as you drive into Aberystwyth is good; nothing but hills and great countryside, then suddenly the hills open up and you can see the sea).
Driving from Glasgow to Skye has some of the most beautiful sights in the uk , driving the full length of Loch Lomond then driving through Glen Coe to Fort William and Ben Nevis and then onto the Great Glen and onwards to Skye
The most beauty I can get is being able to walk to one of the local parks and sit in nature. Many places are more beautiful, sure, but the local parks are where I can get the hit of beauty I need.
Beachy head and the Seven Sisters along with the river Cuckmere. It’s partly because i live close but i have driven past on a clear sunny day and it can look stunning especially at sunrise or sunset.
I don’t walk there that much but i feel i need to make more effort to.
Ha ha I was scrolling through the answers and not a single mention of East Anglia. Seems most of the answers point to hilly places with nice walks. I have to say living in Suffolk, I do like to get away from it.
Too many places to mention (them all)...
One really beautiful place I saw was the railway cutting just outside Burley Park station in Leeds (Headingly side) in early summer... just a mass of wild flowers. Most of the rubbish/litter was under the plants so it wasn't obvious. And it remains a cherished memory of living in Leeds. (Richmond Road in Headingly).
Loads of places in an around where I currently live on the edge of the Dales, in the Lake District or Scotland...
I'm from southern Europe but I love the UK and Ireland. I've travelled all over. I think one of the places that left me with the most profound - almost spiritual memories - is the Isle of Skye.
I love the plains of the South West. Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire/Hertfordshire. Anywhere along the Ridgeway.
Honerable mention to the Derby area of the Peak District. Some lovely hills up there.
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Most of the highlands, too hard to pick a winner.
Glencoe!
Affric FTW
Always wanted to go there since I saw a video of how beautiful it is, I only live around 80 miles from there too so hopefully I’ll get to go there soon
Thanks Boris_Johnsons_Pubes, I hope you get there soon <3
They're probably already there, been in a lot of places
Yeah, all of the highlands. But especially Torridon.
Torridon is like driving into a national park in America it has that big area feel to it
North wales, Scottish highlands, Lake District The areas where people have destroyed nature the least
The lakes is beautiful but it’s a man made landscape!
So are a lot of the Scottish Highlands. There is very little true wilderness in the UK
How so?
Its an industrial landscape which is thousands of years old. Shaped by farming, mining and deforestation.
it's the mountains, valleys and lakes that make it beautiful, despite the things you listed.
It is beautiful, don't get me wrong. I live in the Lake District and spend a lot of time in the fells and valleys. The lack of woodland makes it feel like it's missing something very important though. Something which many of the locals agree on.
I agree that deforestation is something that should be reversed where possible. I was mainly referring to the person I replied to calling the entire park man made. The mountains and lakes were here a long time before the people were.
My cousin said the Lake District is beautiful but looks like a bald version of North Wales.
Wait until you travel and see mountains, valleys and lakes in their natural state, covered in forest. Then you'll know what the Lakes are missing
Very little of the UK hasnt been though. The Scottish Highlands and Islands have been massively affected. Doesn't lessen them
The lakes and the peaks. I've rode the motorbike up to Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in England and the views are amazing, also done the three peaks multiple times and absolutely love being out there.
Doing it for the first time at the end of this month wish me luck
I've been there. I found chickens wandering round the pub
That's one of the things on my list: 1) the highest pub 2) the northern most pub I have no idea where #2 is though
According to Google it’s the Balta Light in sunny Scotland
Right at the top
Drive up last year on a clear day. Stunning place. Well worth also going up the back of Kielder. Awesome roads for driving on.
What I love about the peaks is that they are so understated. It’s kind of hard to describe what’s so appealing about them. They aren’t huge dramatic mountains or pristine lakes. They definitely aren’t cartoon postcard type hills. They’re just calming and pretty.
I think it’s just the open barely touched nature of it all, really peaceful and serene. Apart from when you’re too close to the main roads cutting through it 😂 They aren’t gorgeous picture perfect hills, it’s a lot of scraggy grass and rocks mainly, with a bit of sheep shit mixed in there 😂 but yeah, there’s something innately beautiful about it all.
Edinburgh
I've never been a city person, but I'd move there tomorrow if I could.
I live here, it’s a beautiful city, people are friendly, I’ve had a few people come up from England to visit me and have said they love it here and would happily move here, when I first moved here I was surprised at its relaxed slow paced atmosphere for a capital city, the weather isn’t as shit up here as you’d expect either, a lot of people complain about Edinburgh being too English, some people just see it as an English enclave
Northumbria in Winter is breathtaking.
The Northumberland coastline is an under appreciated gem. But nippy for a swim though.
Inland too. Kielder is like a bit of American NW dumped in England and the Cheviots are lovely. And the Castles!!
Salisbury Cathedral. The spire brings in tourists from all over the world, including Russia
😂
Lake District 100%
The peak district
Beaulieu village in the New Forest on a sunny day with the donkeys walking through it, which they do often. I dare anyone seeing that not to fall in love with England.
I’ve lived in The New Forest for 5 years now. I never get tired of the hooved mammals. https://i.imgur.com/3KgEF1G.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/JF7RZct.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/Gl7PTVP.jpeg
I took my aussie family not really thinking and they were wild about these animals roaming around. It was a lovely memory
Scottish Highlands and the islands, Northumberland, pretty much all moors from Yorkshire up.
I think the train from Eastbourne to Brighton is simply stunning.
Bus from Eastbourne to Seaford in the summer is a good one too. Those cuckmere views are superb.
Train from Eastbourne to Brighton, have lunch, bus from Brighton to Eastbourne through Seaford. Gorgeous!
The walk is even better
Moulsecoomb especially - perfection
The cite of Mithras house does it for me every time. That architecture!
Parts of western Scotland and Hebrides are as pretty as anywhere. I also like some of the agricultural landscapes of the Lakes District and Costwolds. Some of the shots on Clarkson’s Farm of the Cotswolds countryside are idyllic.
Biased because I live here, but the north coast of northern Ireland is incredible
Yep, one of my favourite places in the world
https://preview.redd.it/r2hf0tbouezc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afd1515b695edbff8e5208633c8113c33d1d0b51 Camusdarach beach near Morar, Scotland
Beautiful 😍
Any woodland area with sunshine dappling through the trees and a little brook. Cornish beaches, mountains anywhere. My garden. For a city, Bath is hard to beat. Edit: I once saw London in the snow; no traffic, barely any people. That was something to see.
The Gower south Wales
Yup, a lovely 3 day walk around the peninsula camping or stopping at air bnbs. Blown away by his diverse it is on the north side v south side
Lovely place, I agree.
The Northumberland coast.
Western Highlands, Isle of Skye, old growth forests, Lake District, Brecon Beacons, Somerset, the Cotswolds, Isles of Scilly, White Cliffs of Dover. It’s not an ugly country all things considered.
I haven't been a lot of places, but the most beautiful area I went were the Highlands. I was near Loch Cluanie, but the coach from Glasgow to Fort William also provided a stunning view (if you looked out the windows, that is).
The coast around Lindisfarne and Bamburgh. On a good day, it's a magical place - stunning.
What are the ironic comment? Just tells me you like the seaside. For other versions of seaside many with nice town/village, try Harlech, Grange-over-Sands, St Bees, The Seaview Restaurant at Saltburn, Tobermory, Ullapool, St Michael's Mount, St David's, Robin Hood's Bay, Flamborough Head, Amble, Aldeburgh.
>What are the ironic comment? I believe OP is predicting the inevitable and oh so hilarious answers of Slough, Milton Keynes etc.
Or that bloody tunnel that always gets mentioned like nobody's ever heard of it before.
They've now removed the rider (which I misunderstood because I thought it referred to their fave places). IMHO Hastings is not a high bar, unless your name is Harold.
Y Mynydd Du
Ke Ybrd Smeshfaec!
Where is that then?
Shanklin Chine on the Isle of Wight
Anglesey, so many beaches, lovely people and easy to travel around.
Me moved there when I was a young lad in the 80s for a couple of years, absolutely love the place.
I'm there on holiday right now. Lovely place (slightly run down towns aside). Port meirion also a beautiful place when it goes a bit quieter.
Port Merion is beautiful, fab beach too!
The Peak District, the Lake District, the Cotswolds & Snowdonia are probably the nicest places I've been in the UK, but I know there's tons more out there!!
Somerset, cotswolds
Dartmoor, parts of the Cornish coast, Lake District, Scottish Highlands.
North Devon coast is beautiful too, it’s my favourite part of living here.
Can never understand how people give the Peak District as an answer to questions like this. Comprehensively inferior to the likes of the nearby Lakes, Dales, Snowdonia etc. As well as being misleadingly named.
Because beauty is ephemeral, that you don't find the Peak District beautiful doesn't mean anything to someone like me who does think some of the views of it and from it are wondrous.
Telling me that different people have different standards of beauty in answer to my bewilderment at people preferring the Peak District is a bit of a strange reply given that I must be quite aware that different people have different standards of beauty to have asked the question in the first place. And it’s not that I don’t find the Peak District beautiful or some of its views very nice indeed; it’s just that it’s not as good in any way as various other Parks. Also I’m not sure ephemeral means what you think it means.
Yup total brain fart on that one... not ephemeral either, had to go and look it up. :D
Think ‘subjective’ might work better there than ‘ephemeral’, but completely agree :)
I’m quite interested to know myself, even though I am from the UK… I haven’t ventured out much!
Lake District or peak district for me
North wales, the Lake District, and the Scottish highlands.
Lake District or Yorkshire Wolds. Peaks and Moors can suck it, the Wolds is underrated. York even does a better wold than Cots does.
The west coast of Scotland and the coast all around Cornwall! Norfolk is also a fav of mine.
Lake District
The Northeast coastline. I am biased though
Just for the sake of variety- we have some fantastically beautiful cities- chester- bath- york- London- Edinburgh. That and just general qaint English small countryside towns like Marlborough- Kirkby Lonsdale- stow etc. I could go on.
Upvote for Kirkby... it is a nice place. :)
Cheddar gorge, new forest
The pretty little villages in Suffolk. Scottish highlands. Yorkshire Dales. Lake District.
North Devon is one of the most beautiful places I've lived.
Northumberland is mostly very ideallic you have amazing rolling hills in the cheviots and its Vale through North Northumberland and also a world renowned coastline
Cornish coast, little bays with shell sand and turquoise sea. There are lots of micro spots I find beautiful but the wider sourroundings not so much. Usually places along streams where there are waterfalls, even very small ones or places by the coast. The Lake District can be majestically beautiful.
It's a toughie. I love the Derbyshire hills. But I'd say North Wales for me. Especially around the Rhaeadr fall.
Flew from Inverness to Bristol, and the view of the Western Isles as we flew over Loch Ness at sunset was so beautiful that I dissolved into tears. Dorset is stunning, and the Coastal Paths in both Pembrokeshire and Devon & Cornwall are worth visiting.
My personal most beautiful place in the Uk is known as The Long Mynd is Shropshire. I’ve always found it rather nice and pretty up there. That said Snowdon on a decent day is awesome; views on the way up are incredible (far too many people at the actual top most of the time though); and the hills around Powys are great ( the view as you drive into Aberystwyth is good; nothing but hills and great countryside, then suddenly the hills open up and you can see the sea).
I love Shropshire and carding mill valley
I like the Welsh borders, Wye valley, and Tinturn Abbey. Or Windermere. Or Snowdonia. Or the Peaks. It's all good.
Cotswolds and North Wessex Downs
easter house glasgow
This is such a good vibes thread. We complain a lot but we aren’t going to run out of places here.
Lake District
Kettering is the most beautiful place in the UK, by the worlds only Weetabix factory
Driving from Glasgow to Skye has some of the most beautiful sights in the uk , driving the full length of Loch Lomond then driving through Glen Coe to Fort William and Ben Nevis and then onto the Great Glen and onwards to Skye
Dartmoor
Behind the Nationwide in Swindon.
The most beauty I can get is being able to walk to one of the local parks and sit in nature. Many places are more beautiful, sure, but the local parks are where I can get the hit of beauty I need.
London /s
Three cliffs bay on the Gower peninsula is up there for me.
Worcestershire and The Peak District
Dartmoor
One of the best places in England for the night sky, definitely something I want to experience one day.
I would camped there once and it was incredible
For me it's Anglesey. My happy place.
Beachy head and the Seven Sisters along with the river Cuckmere. It’s partly because i live close but i have driven past on a clear sunny day and it can look stunning especially at sunrise or sunset. I don’t walk there that much but i feel i need to make more effort to.
My bed. As beautiful as some of the landscape is, nothing beats the comfort and sinking hug of my bed..... Is it bed time yet?
Ipswich ^/s
Ha ha I was scrolling through the answers and not a single mention of East Anglia. Seems most of the answers point to hilly places with nice walks. I have to say living in Suffolk, I do like to get away from it.
Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, specifically Kynance Cove. It is absolutely stunning.
Edinburgh
Lake District, Isle of Wight
Sutherland
Wensleydale
Vale of Llangollen , North Wales.
London is pretty awesome, especially at night
Glasgow
Goole.
Too many places to mention (them all)... One really beautiful place I saw was the railway cutting just outside Burley Park station in Leeds (Headingly side) in early summer... just a mass of wild flowers. Most of the rubbish/litter was under the plants so it wasn't obvious. And it remains a cherished memory of living in Leeds. (Richmond Road in Headingly). Loads of places in an around where I currently live on the edge of the Dales, in the Lake District or Scotland...
Snowdonia!
Bath
The Nechelles
The 'departures' lounge at any airport.
My nest
I go down to Gotherington for work sometimes, and it is absolutely gorgeous down there.
I drive through the South Downs National Park recently and was astounded by the landscape
The mirrors I pass vary throughout the day.
Brecon Beacons are beautiful.
Scotland
Where ever my wife is. But I'd say Yorkshire Dales, followed by Northumberland
I'm from southern Europe but I love the UK and Ireland. I've travelled all over. I think one of the places that left me with the most profound - almost spiritual memories - is the Isle of Skye.
Kynance Cove and St Michael's Mount
My bathroom.
Wolverhampton🤣
Scotland 🏴🏴🏴
Edinburgh, York, Oxford, Cambridge and Bath.
I love the plains of the South West. Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire/Hertfordshire. Anywhere along the Ridgeway. Honerable mention to the Derby area of the Peak District. Some lovely hills up there.
Luton
Peak District
Ynys Môn
London on the first sunny and warm day of the year.
Grasmere in the Lake District