Best county in England?

[MaidstoneFox]

I won't make a case for Kent, despite living here.

 

Some lovely coastal areas such as Broadstairs and great historical areas like as Canterbury and Rochester, but it has sadly become very overpopulated for the size of the towns and infrastructural, which means traffic is often horrendous. Lots of quite deprived or soul-less towns as well like Ashford, Sittingbourne, Gillingham and Stood. It is the county of medium-sized towns with no real focal point.

[Izzy]

Suppose I'd better say Buckinghamshire seeing as I've now lived here over 20 years.

 

Britain's most filmed county I'll have you know.

 

Bond, Bridget Jones, Downton Abbey, The Queen, Harry Potter, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Vicar of Dibley, Inspector Morse, and many more all filmed here.

 

Loads of estates, National Trust places, forests, the Chiltern hills etc, etc.

 

(Then HS2 came along and fvcked it all up )

[Nalis]

Cumbria has to be the winner here right?

 

Loads of counties have stunning natural beauty for various reasons but the lakes are another level.

Edited 12 November 2024 by Nalis

[Chris_OGrady]

Somerset/Gloucestershire. You've got a good city in Bristol on your doorstep, lots of nice towns (Bath, Frome, Wells, Cheltenham etc), nice countryside nearby (Cotswolds/Mendip Hills), and you can holiday in Devon and Cornwall easily. 

 

North Yorkshire too for similar reasons with Leeds not far away and the likes of York, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Yarm etc, and also great countryside and the coast.

 

Whilst Leicestershire is objectively not the best county, it's great being in the middle of the country and being able to visit everywhere without it being too much of a slog. If I lived in North Yorkshire it would be a bastard getting down to Devon, likewise Somerset with York. Last weekend I was in Broadway in the Cotswolds in an hour and a half, this weekend I'm hoping to be in the Peak District in a similar time. 

 

 

 

 

Edited 13 November 2024 by Chris_OGrady

[MattFox]

Always maintain that Leicestershire is essentially a microcosm of England in one county

 

You’ve got all the big demographics ( Diverse City, Uni Town, Post Industrial Villages, Rich Rural areas) in a population of just over 1 million 

 

 

[Happy Fox]

Oxfordshire is lovely , though I have to say Berkshire as well. 

[PAULCFC]

I suppose it's what you want really......We moved from LFE  6 Months ago.....Now we have an island with Seals,Turns and Puffins a mile away.Not saying it's for everyone,but every county has something different! And yes i'm a bird watcher now!And we allways  have the Metro Centre 30 mins away if thats your thing!

Edited 13 November 2024 by PAULCFC
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[PAULCFC]

3 hours ago, Nalis said:

Cumbria has to be the winner here right?

 

Loads of counties have stunning natural beauty for various reasons but the lakes are another level.

Cumbria is great for Lakes and i love them.......But if you like the sea look at the beaches of Northumberland!

[ozleicester]

Lancashire... i mean, have you even been to Blackpool !!

[Daggers]

 

Bedfordshire has Luton, therefore it’s a shithole

Berkshire - Nowhere that’s home to Slough is anything other than a shithole

Buckinghamshire - Milton Keynes can fvck off

Cambridgeshire - poncy bast@rds

Cheshire - Chris Chadford still owes me £65 from 1989, his entire county can fvck off

Cornwall - full of caravanning tourist cvnts

Cumberland - Carlisle is crap and the Lakes are owned by tosspot Radio presenters

Derbyshire - the hills are ruined by the rest of it

Devon - great if you love dried up octogenarian pussy, otherwise: make some proper fvcking lanes, Devon

Dorset - you drive through it to get somewhere, there’s a reason no one stays

Durham - northern Tory twats

Essex - thick southern Tory twats

Gloucestershire - Romans, therefore in with a shout of being decent

Hampshire - was nice, now a soulless hellhole

Herefordshire - fantastic if you love incest

Hertfordshire - new town shithole

Huntingdonshire - central Tory twats

Kent - cvnts

Lancashire - dark satanic shithole

Leicestershire - shithole

Lincolnshire - three fingers, two braincells, built on one hill shithole

Middlesex - this entire county can cock off. Sounds like it’s a proper place, but it isn’t, it’s London. London can fvck off because it’s shite

Norfolk - the best thing is it’s impossible to get to so next to no one bothers; let the arseholes belong to Netherlands

Northamptonshire - clearly the best county

Northumberland - clearly the second best county

Nottinghamshire - fvck off

Oxfordshire - overpriced Tory bollocks

Rutland - twee Tory bollocks

Shropshire - racist cvnts ina racist county being racist, willy pullers

Somerset - cider and cheddar, therefore third best county

Staffordshire - even more racist than Shropshire, home to that BNP cvnt

Suffolk - let it go Suffolk, no one cares

Surrey - fvck you, Surrey, you’re just London pretending to be something else too

Sussex - pathetic resistance to French invaders therefore should be wiped out

Warwickshire - oh, aren’t you fancy…Coventry. Piss off

Westmorland - acceptable, but only if you emptied it of people and Kendal fvcking mint cake

Wiltshire - stone circles completely cancelled out by Swindon

Worcestershire - stupid accents, it’s Birmingham in disguise

Yorkshire - fvck off

[Trav Le Bleu]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

Bedfordshire has Luton, therefore it’s a shithole

Berkshire - Nowhere that’s home to Slough is anything other than a shithole

Buckinghamshire - Milton Keynes can fvck off

Cambridgeshire - poncy bast@rds

Cheshire - Chris Chadford still owes me £65 from 1989, his entire county can fvck off

Cornwall - full of caravanning tourist cvnts

Cumberland - Carlisle is crap and the Lakes are owned by tosspot Radio presenters

Derbyshire - the hills are ruined by the rest of it

Devon - great if you love dried up octogenarian pussy, otherwise: make some proper fvcking lanes, Devon

Dorset - you drive through it to get somewhere, there’s a reason no one stays

Durham - northern Tory twats

Essex - thick southern Tory twats

Gloucestershire - Romans, therefore in with a shout of being decent

Hampshire - was nice, now a soulless hellhole

Herefordshire - fantastic if you love incest

Hertfordshire - new town shithole

Huntingdonshire - central Tory twats

Kent - cvnts

Lancashire - dark satanic shithole

Leicestershire - shithole

Lincolnshire - three fingers, two braincells, built on one hill shithole

Middlesex - this entire county can cock off. Sounds like it’s a proper place, but it isn’t, it’s London. London can fvck off because it’s shite

Norfolk - the best thing is it’s impossible to get to so next to no one bothers; let the arseholes belong to Netherlands

Northamptonshire - clearly the best county

Northumberland - clearly the second best county

Nottinghamshire - fvck off

Oxfordshire - overpriced Tory bollocks

Rutland - twee Tory bollocks

Shropshire - racist cvnts ina racist county being racist, willy pullers

Somerset - cider and cheddar, therefore third best county

Staffordshire - even more racist than Shropshire, home to that BNP cvnt

Suffolk - let it go Suffolk, no one cares

Surrey - fvck you, Surrey, you’re just London pretending to be something else too

Sussex - pathetic resistance to French invaders therefore should be wiped out

Warwickshire - oh, aren’t you fancy…Coventry. Piss off

Westmorland - acceptable, but only if you emptied it of people and Kendal fvcking mint cake

Wiltshire - stone circles completely cancelled out by Swindon

Worcestershire - stupid accents, it’s Birmingham in disguise

Yorkshire - fvck off

Cumberland? Cumberland?!!?!

 

It's not 1543 you know!

 

P S.

 

Northamptonshire contains Corby, so think again.

Edited 13 November 2024 by Trav Le Bleu

[Daggers]

7 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Cumberland? Cumberland?!!?!

 

It's not 1543 you know!

 

P S.

 

Northamptonshire contains Corby, so think again.

Corby is Scottish. It doesn’t form part of Northants.

 

And time, that is relative.

[Golden Fox]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

Cambridgeshire - poncy bast@rds

Finally: 3 pages in and a mention of Cambridgeshire.

 

Interesting analysis, but I've had to go to Peterborough twice in the last couple of weeks, and there are a few folk there that might dispute your conclusion.

 

For those grumbling about house prices, you might need to reconsider looking at the list by borough on https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-house-price-index-for-june-2023/uk-house-price-index-england-june-2023 - as Cambridgeshire is the first place you hit outside of Greater London and Surrey... 

 

#	Local authorities	Jun 23 ave
1	Kensington and Chelsea	£1,345,057
2	City of London	£1,001,644
3	City of Westminster	£996,153
4	Camden	£880,889
5	Hammersmith and Fulham	£776,673
6	Richmond upon Thames	£764,021
7	Islington	£696,363
8	Elmbridge	£659,211
9	Hackney	£626,355
10	Wandsworth	£619,255
11	Haringey	£609,591
12	Merton	£588,569
13	St Albans	£575,491
14	Barnet	£574,285
15	Three Rivers	£568,331
16	Mole Valley	£566,219
17	Waverley	£549,181
18	Kingston upon Thames	£548,379
19	Southwark	£546,707
20	Epsom and Ewell	£543,670
21	Windsor and Maidenhead	£543,650
22	Brent	£541,559
23	Lambeth	£537,524
24	Ealing	£536,338
25	Guildford	£535,504
26	Hertsmere	£533,056
27	Epping Forest	£523,872
28	Sevenoaks	£519,415
29	Surrey	£516,134
30	Harrow	£515,471
31	Cambridge	£515,226
178	Leicestershire	£298,158
231	Leicester	£234,633
317	Burnley	£116,526

 

[Stuntman_Mike]

 

Makes you think how many nice areas we do actually have in this country.

 

It's easy to forget that being on a mainly Leicester/Leicestershire forum. There's too much focus on the bad stuff.

 

 

[SemperEadem]

Far easier to make the case for some of the worst. The goth belt and home counties can fight for that title.

[dsr-burnley]

On the basis that I can't pick Lancashire, I'll go for Yorkshire (North Riding) followed by Northumberland.

[Torquay Gunner]

15 hours ago, bovril said:

Gloucestershire is very beautiful 

Apart from the main city of Gloucester, which is a depressing dump.  Cheltenham on the other hand………..

[bovril]

7 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

Apart from the main city of Gloucester, which is a depressing dump.  Cheltenham on the other hand………..

Yeah I went in May to the cathedral and was surprised how bad the town was. Didn't think that much of Cheltenham either, though the countryside was gorgeous. 

[SystonFox]

17 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

Yorkshire "God's own country"

says who?

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, SystonFox said:

says who?

People all over England. Yorkshiremen famously hate the term. They're very modest people. 

[Nalis]

10 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

Cumbria is great for Lakes and i love them.......But if you like the sea look at the beaches of Northumberland!

Oh yeah Northumberland is amazing. Probably 2nd for me behind Cumbria

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Corby is Scottish. It doesn’t form part of Northants.

 

And time, that is relative.

Aunty Chronos

[FoxesDeb]

6 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

P S.

 

Northamptonshire contains Corby, so think again.

And Desborough 

[Fox1970]

Anyone who doesn't say Leicestershire can just quite simply FOAD.

[Trav Le Bleu]

30 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

And Desborough 

Not to mention Daventry.

 

Should be called Haven'try.

Edited 13 November 2024 by Trav Le Bleu