General Chat

I think every area has its beautiful places. Last summer I had a June holiday in Dorset. As Rosemary from the Island says it is full of beautiful little settlements. I loved Sherborne and enjoyed shopping there. The surrounding villages/hamlets were full of thatched cottages which actually did have roses and clematis round the doors. Milton Abbas was a picture. Really enjoy the Dartmoor villages like Haytor and Widecombe and the little fishing villages on the N. cornish coast, but feel St.Ives is rather spoilt now. Also loved Reeth in Yorkshire, Blanchland in Northumberland, as well as Rothbury, Strontian Scotland, Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds and nearer to home Lavenham Suffolk, Thaxted, Finchingfield, and Writtle here in Essex. I would hate to have to choose just oneplace! Rosemary(Essex)

It is so difficult to chose-I love Plocton in Scotland and all of the lovely Cornish ones mentioned,but there is something to be said for the Dorset villages.Just drive off a main roadand ramble round our lanes and you will come to thatched stone cottages in abundance.They are tucked in under hills and nestle in shaded valleys and you never find them because you all tear through Dorset on your way down to Devon and Cornwall.Next year stop and get to know us.We would love to make your holiday a pleasure-Looking Forward to seeing you WELCOME Rose

For me it has to be my home county - Kent, we have some lovely villages - Smarden (which I've been to this afternoon for my works xmas do so feeling abit drunk!), Sissinghurst, Biddenden, Goudhurst. They are all lovely villages and if it wasnt for the fact that I'm a townie through and through and dont drive I would love to live in one of these villages with really old houses with loads of history and character. Karen

Callander, Killin, Kenmore, Pitlochry, North Queensferry, anywhere in Scotland really!! lol Jill x

Old Warden in Bedfordshire, all thatched cottages, Broadway in the Cotswolds Bibury glos Crail fife Bourton on the Water Glos too many others to mention. We are lucky in this country to have so many lovely places. Some would be beautiful if they could have a bypass, main roads spoil so many places. Ann Glos

Polperro in Cornwall is lovely, very quaint but my top place would have to be Looe. When you come down the hill and spot it through the trees it is breathtaking...especially when the river is in and you can see the boats bobbing up and down

I think Cornwall is great, My Aunt lived there and brought me all round the beautiful fishing villages, including Padstow and St. Ives absolutely lovely, I loved Lands End, really incredible there, travelled all round Truro, Wadebridge and Bodmin areas. I also like Devon very much, but cannot think of the villages. I love Surrey and Esher was a beautiful village in the 1970's, people have said its still lovely, great walking area too. I haven't been to enough of them to really make a proper comment, there are so many and I would love to be able to visit more and make a proper judgement, ah maybe one day. Pat x

Well, it's funny a few of you have said Cornish villages. This subject had come up tonight and my s-i-l- had said she thought for her it would be a Cornish village. Guess I'll have to visit some of these lovely places to see for my self. Christine

For me there has got to be 3 choices Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. Because my Mum lives there Port Sunlight, Wirral. Because I grew up near there Padstow, Cornwall. Because my dead rellies are buried there

Has anyone visited Rothbury in Northumberland. Its a lovely village in Coquetdale with the Simonside hills as a backdrop.

Very difficult to name just one, Christine. Some that spring to mind are: Chilham (Kent), Hutton-le-Hole (N.Yorkshire), Sarratt (Hertfordshire)

Where would you say is the most beautiful village in Britain? For me it would have to be Castle Combe, Wiltshire. My brother took us when we were visiting him when he stayed in Lyneham. It's like a place that time forgot. Fort Augustus is a close second. Christine