Where is genuinely really underrated town, city or village in The UK?

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1. Scunthorpe – it’s so good it’s got a problem named after it.

   Oh and Hanley near Stoke. It’s got a strip club called after the postcode – ST1.

2. I’m from Birmingham, a perpetually underrated city and perhaps the most underrated place in the country. It’s fine, I like it that way, it keeps dickheads out.

   I was very pleasantly surprised with Swansea when I visited. Nice seafront area, half decent city centre, next to some lovely countryside.

   I think Worcester is underrated too. Classic cathedral city, some great restaurants and pubs, lovely riverside. Very similar to places like Durham, Lincoln, and Chester but hardly ever mentioned in the same breath.

3. Hull. [Hull has v nice parts to it]

   Stoke. [People are v friendly in Stoke and its Potteries heritage makes it a great place to visit if you like that sort of thing. ‘Greater Stoke’ has architectural gems like Pugin’s church in Cheadle (that Cheadle not the one near Manc) and it’s near Staffordshire Moorlands.

4. Judging from just one day so it’s hardly an in depth evaluation but I spent a day in Stroud when an ex had an all day job interview there and I absolutely loved it. Just spent the day wandering around and reading in a graveyard.

5. Beverley, East Riding. It’s essentially a small version of York, which may explain why it’s comparatively quiet compared to its bigger neighbour

6. London, people hate on it but I love it here

7. Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.

8. Cardiff, Small friendly with all the perks of a capital city. Don’t see enough love for it outside of Wales based subreddits

9. Wendover, Buckinghamshire

10. Bishop Auckland has got a *lot* better in the past few years. The castle has been restored, there are museums of mining art, Spanish art, and faith, a viewing tower, and a spectacle called Kynren. It also has Binchester Roman Fort on the outskirts, which has some [impressively tall remains](https://aasdn.org.uk/binchester.htm)

    Combine it with Durham and Barnard Castle and you’ve got yourself a nice long weekend.

11. This fucking question AGAIN?

12. Hull is unexpectedly nice

13. Machynlleth. The surroundings, the nearby Mach Loop, the best comedy festival in the UK

14. Lincoln. Norfolk. Newark. South Wales.

15. Ullapool, Scotland.

    Happened to stumble across here whilst doing the NC500, beautiful little place surrounded by incredible sights.

16. Gloucester is lovely

17. Kettering – it’s a fantastic place with loads of attraction. Wickstead Park is there, the Weetabix factory, and shops in town

18. St Davids in Wales – the UK’s smallest city! It’s so beautiful and full of history – a real hidden gem.

19. The place I was most pleasantly surprised by was Middlesbrough.

20. Personally *The Wirral* apart of Merseyside on the border of Cheshire.

    A peninsula surrounded by some nice beaches. West kirby / New Brighton and marshland (RSPB site Parkgate).

    Alot of the football players of Liverpool and Everton live there.

    A lot of nice countryside and farmland and independent towns and villages.

    Granted there are some not nice parts, however the positive massively outweighs the negative.

    I always get the impression people think it’s like inner city Liverpool and it’s nothing of the sort.

21. Matlock. Feels like a little seaside town and is full of cute and quirky cafes and food places

22. Halifax . Great architecture (piece hall and the bank building ) and lots of real ale pubs and football . Rough mind .

23. Peterborough

    * Beautiful and massive Cathedral
    * Neat riverbank in the city centre
    * great cycling infrastructure (in the half of it that was built in the last 50 years)
    * a country park walking distance from the city centre (you can also take a steam train there on some weekends)
    * Also a network of 70mph grade-sepeperated dual carriageways, which combined with some busways means it has the fastest peaktime buses in the UK. And to top it all off a train station that will take you just about anywhere, not to mention the A1 link.

    EDIT : I don’t want to oversell it, it has its fair share of crime, antisocial behaviour and rough patches but is generally a nice place to live if you know the right spots due to its transport, shopping (for a city its size), nature and cycle friendliness.

24. Sandford is quite overrated. God rest em.

25. Westward Ho! North Devon
    It’s on the coast it’s small, great for a quiet holiday. Plenty of towns to see nearby too.

26. Hull its not a joke lol, one of the friendliest city’s you will find, the fantastic marina (reminds me of gibraltar marina) and on a sunny day you cant beat it) with the new bars restaurants very trendy, near the marina, the old town we are talking all listed buildings with proper old cobbled streets with old ornate pubs and you wont get a better night out than in hull old town, its cheap to live – cheap to buy and the cleanest city centre you will ever visit as your forever seeing the machines and street cleaners no thrown fag ends or litter in city centre streets.

    The council is the least complained about in the country thats official and the amount of money pouring into the city centre is mind blowing with multi millions of development upwards of 700 plus flats shops and multi millions museums to make it a tourist marine destination to complement the Deep, Netfix spent a week filming de e day pretending it was London as the buildings are like londons the town halls and old courts are stunning, City centre is where its at can be a bit rougher on the outskirts like most citys

27. Swindon. I do not have a clue why people diss it. It seems nice.

28. London lol

29. I think Chester is underrated it’s just a nice city which looks different to the regular provincial towns all around England