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Charlton Life's Ultimate "Best Towns"

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  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,811

    cafcpolo said:

    fattmatt said:

    Christchurch in dorset

    Another great place. I have friends there. Beautiful.
    My current place of residence making the best towns list, so proud. Great place to live, apart from the large amount of oldies who like to drive around 10mph under the speed limit.

    You still up at Sopley(?) Polo?

    Aiming to move to Christchuch when I don't need to get across town for work anymore, which at this rate will be when I'm about 75!
    Left there over three years ago now chief. Where do you work? I have to get over to Fleetsbridge so feel your pain, can be an absolute ball ache at times.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,101
    West London in general. Richmond, Chiswick, Fulham etc.

    Ely is another good shout and I'm going to nominate Brenchley in Kent as well. Nice pubs, nice cricket pitch, lovely buildings.
  • Er...Fleetsbridge. Give us a wave!

    I like many of the places around here but my own contribution would probably be Bath, particularly out of season.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Manchester: if someone's paying to put you up in a city centre hotel as part of a work trip where there's enough free time to see the sights, but not if you're stuck in some sprawling urban slum on the outskirts of town (I guess the same is probably true of most cities though).

    Cambridge.
  • Richmond in west London

    Bird at work lives in Richmond. She has been burgled three times in the last year.

    Nice park though.........
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    Wagrave. On the river 3 miles south of Henley, direct trains to Paddington (just a few), three pubs, a great indian restaurant, two antique shops and a newsagent, that's it. Oh, and two boatyards. It's perfect.


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Wolverley (near Kidderminster)
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,219
    Id be happy living in Farningham, Horton Kirby or Eynsford. Not too far away.

    But any part of Dorset really. Tho i love Lulworth Cove its a bit too secluded.

    Too many lovely places in this country to choose from.
  • scruffle
    scruffle Posts: 2,282
    Moved to Rochester a year ago. Gotta say love it, if you discount strood, Gillingham and Chatham the Medway town's actually nice, and half hour from London by train, 25min th valley by car, 15min from Bluewater for the mrs.
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,664
    Bath
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  • Whitby
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    Stamford in Lincolnshire is a beautiful town.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Edinburgh I'd say has the best mixture of history, striking landscape and nightlife of anywhere outside of London. As a weegie I say that through gritted teeth. However, the manto is average, at best.
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    Yes Stamford is a great place , so many pubs !

    Burnham Market , Alnwick , Southwold , Bakewell , Plaayer ( also known as littlehampton ) and Rye all get my vote
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    Greenwich, Henley & Keswick
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    Think Ludlow is excellent too
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    A not very impartial shout out for the Chiltern towns of Amersham, Wendover, Berkhamsted, Great Missenden, Tring and Beaconsfield.
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    Shag said:

    Yes Stamford is a great place , so many pubs !

    Burnham Market , Alnwick , Southwold , Bakewell , Plaayer ( also known as littlehampton ) and Rye all get my vote

    Plaayer could have been Bakewell also
  • Arundel is a lovely place if a bit twee! Weird how your perceptions are coloured, Chichester was mentioned above which I can see is nice but having gone to school there only brings back memories of smoking round 'the cross' and trying to get served in one of its many pubs!
  • Lyme Regis.
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  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052

    Lyme Regis.

    Yes, good call.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
    Cambridge
    Chester
    Saffron Waldon
    Mousehole
    Bath
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,982
    Windsor.
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    McBobbin said:

    Edinburgh. If we are counting cities?

    Government stats say it's the city that nobody want's to move away from.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729

    West London in general. Richmond, Chiswick, Fulham etc.

    Ely is another good shout and I'm going to nominate Brenchley in Kent as well. Nice pubs, nice cricket pitch, lovely buildings.

    Acton's a bit of a hole though.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    Totnes, moved down here 10 years ago to study and have never left
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Bradford on Avon nr Bath.
  • Tunbridge Wells :)

    Lol...^^


    Bath.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    edited August 2013
    Reigate
    Arundel
    Bath

    Living in Reigate at the moment, and its like a dream. Unfortunately can't afford to buy here so will be moving on in a few months.

    Hopefully to Arundel - which, although twee, is beautiful :)
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131

    Edinburgh I'd say has the best mixture of history, striking landscape and nightlife of anywhere outside of London. As a weegie I say that through gritted teeth. However, the manto is average, at best.

    Agree with Edinburgh. I only went there once and went on a mammoth session. I will always have maximum to the tattoo artist that refused to ink me, despite my drunken request for a St. Georges Cross, throwing £200 at him and affectionately referring to him as a 'Scotch twat.'