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Using this thread for ideas on where I can take mrs away for weekend break after cheltenham (she will have deserved it after my week of indulgence)... Anyway looking for a picturesque small town/village with some nice boozers, interesting shops....and a bookies....
To give you an idea the three nicest town n my county ( and up there in the top twenty in uk imo) are as follows..
Bridgnorth..beautiful riverside town, pubs bookies lovely architecture
Ludlow....beautiful town, the castle, mr underhills michellin star plenty of pubs
Much wenlock....small but beautifully formed...
Can any county match those three gems...
To give you an idea the three nicest town n my county ( and up there in the top twenty in uk imo) are as follows..
Bridgnorth..beautiful riverside town, pubs bookies lovely architecture
Ludlow....beautiful town, the castle, mr underhills michellin star plenty of pubs
Much wenlock....small but beautifully formed...
Can any county match those three gems...
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Only got one in this county.
Oundle,bit like a prep town for Cambridge. |
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Harrogate--North Yorkshire
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Marlow (providing it's dried up by the time you're planning on going)
Amersham Waddesdon (for the Manor and some decent pubs - you'll have to schlep into Aylesbury for the bookies) |
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I think Stamford is better than Oundle, a lot bigger and some good pubs, cracking market on a Friday, easy to get to Melton Mowbray , Leicester and Peterborough (dump, full of eastern europeans), for a day out, Northampton and Cambridge (very nice} not far away.
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Godalming.
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Hi mesmerised, where would you recommend to stay in Godalming?
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Arundel, handy for Goodwood as well. Nowhere near me of course but nice towns near South East London are thin on the ground. I like Brixton but not certain that counts or is to everyone's taste. I like the place though.
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You must be in Northants , Roy, I think a lot of Northamptonshire is nice, dont know much about the west side, although Towcester always looks nice, but a lot of attractive places such as Barnwell over this side, thats too small for the OP probably.
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Repton former capital of Mercia and historic village with well known school
Ashbourne nice market town Matlock Bath great views Bakewell great farmers market and annual agricultural show and Chatsworth House lovely historic villages all over the Peak District |
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wells next the sea....avoid gt yarmouth kings lynn nap
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Good thread pebbles22 - lots of ideas in here
It does seem that towns with National Hunt only tracks are unusually nice, when there is no racing in town of course Where I am: Sedgefield , Co Durham : a good few pubs and shops selling posh frocks, big park, and later Hardwick Hall if there is a tribute band or a fight event on. |
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Bury st Edmunds Woodbridge |
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Woodbridge is a great place Coach, you know I spent many a time in that neck of the woods.
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Slippy spent a week in ARUNDEL last year , smashing little town , near both Fontwell and as you say Goodwood ...Smashing pub down by the castle , well worth a visit , a shop in the high street has some wonderful horse prints at reasonable prices ..The owner is a smashing fellow , a cockney , I spent a few hours talking to him he loves his work...Some really nice pubs as well , a wonderful Indian restaurant as well...
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Stevenage the jewel in Hertfordshire's crown
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Slippy - i have probably drunk and been drunk in the same fine watering holes as your good self
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The Maybush in Walderingfield and The Ramsholt Arms on the other side of the River Deben not far away were mainly my haunts Coach. We had our mooring by The Ramsholt. That place has got a very famous history if you look into it.
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will look Slippy , both pubs ideal for a boating man like yourself .
you must have also been to Pin Mill on your travels ?  |
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Some nice places mentioned there by BB. I was born in Darley Dale, right in the middle of most of those.
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inverness
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Luton
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cotswolds
. http://www.cotswolds.info/places/ glos - bibury, cirencester, boughton on the water, lower slaughter further south avon - bristol, bath, lacock list is endless, attractions, historic homes & gardens, shopping, sights all across the region we live in the cotswold water parks region, about 30 mins south of chelt, oxford also worth considering to the east, burford on the way along the A40 from chelt, only place to avoid really is swindon in this region which is a dump |
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Portknockie
. http://www.portknockiewebsite.co.uk/ |
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Midhurst in West Sussex!
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Arundel west sussex
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Agree with Burton- Brewers and add Buxton to the list, a nice location if exploring the High peak area .
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Always went to Matlock Bath as a treat in my childhood, still go now.
kenbo - I was born just down the road from you. |
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yes forgot Buxton, voted UK's best farmers market
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only place to avoid really is swindon in this region which is a dump
_______________ i'd probably add Oxford to the list as well |
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hardly in swindons league
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Its a small world Shane.
I used to take the missus to Bakewell quite often, its only an hour from where i live now, but its a different world. |
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We went to Bakewell over the Christmas holiday, was a bugger to park.
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It always is!
We always stayed at The Queens Head/Arms? and they would give you a permit for the CO-OP car park. We always had to park somewhere else first though and move the car later on. I was born at Darley Dale hospital, and spent the first 18 months of my life in Little Longstone.  |
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I had a mate who lived in Two Dales. Where are you now ken?
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DURHAM NAP **** would be in the top 10 in the country ....Lovely place ..
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Loughborough.
I take it you're in Sheffield? I seem to remember you mentioning the 'blades'. |
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I am ken
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