10 Greenest Towns in the UK
What are the greenest towns tin the United Kingdom? As many as 7 of the greenest towns in England are among the 10 greenest towns in the UK. This is not surprising at all. England is only being prevented from being equated with the entire United Kingdom. Thus, for records purposes and the sake of clarity, don’t be surprised to find towns and cities in England dominating listings of bests or worsts of towns and cities in the UK.
Other UK towns that slug it out with the towns in England on this list of the 10 greenest towns in Britain are Falkirk in Scotland, Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, and Bridgend also in Wales. It appears other regions of the United Kingdom have something to learn from England about nature and its preservation.
10. Barnsley, England
The first to be considered among the 10 greenest towns in the UK is Barnsley, a large market town and the fourth-largest settlement in South Yorkshire. This town doesn’t allow inappropriate development within its areas and the conditions in building permits are stricter. By doing this, it has been able to preserve its green space.
The River Dearne Valley and Worsbrough Mill Park and reservoir are just two examples of efforts that the town is making to be one of the greenest towns in both England and the entire United Kingdom. As of 2017, it has some 23,050 hectares of green belt which was first defined in 1979. Its rural landscape features encourage recreation and leisure interests.
9. Stafford, England
Stafford, a county town of Staffordshire in the West Midlands, lying about 24 kilometers north of Wolverhampton, 24 kilometers south of Stoke-on-Trent, and 39 kilometers northwest of Birmingham, is the next of the 10 greenest towns in the UK.
The nature reserves in Stafford include Astonfields Balancing Lakes, a local nature reserve of two lakes constructed for flood protection. There’s also Doxey Marshes, a wet grassland habitat about three kilometers northwest of the town center managed by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. It’s 150 hectares of nature reserve and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It's home to wading birds and wildfowl. Kingsmead Marsh and Radford Meadows are also green spaces in this town.
8. Falkirk, Scotland
Falkirk, a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. The town which is 37.5 kilometers northwest of Edinburgh and 33 kilometers northeast of Glasgow is doing great in maintaining a wide range of greenspace.
It has an initiative called Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN). The unrivaled network aims at transforming Central Scotland into a place where the environment adds value to the economy and people’s lives are enriched by its quality. GSGN has no peer in Europe as a green space initiative that has been embedded in all relevant plans, policies, and strategies. The result of this is seen in the green revolution in the town.
7. Daventry, England
Yet another town on this list is Daventry, a town that is close to the border with Warwickshire with a population of 25,026 as of 2011. As the sixth-largest town in Northamptonshire, it’s one of the 10 greenest towns in the UK.
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Discovering the Charm: 4K Journey through Huntingdon Town
Step into the enchanting realm of Huntingdon, nestled in the heart of Cambridgeshire, where history, charm, and natural beauty converge. With its cobbled streets, picturesque riverbanks, and medieval architecture, this idyllic town offers a captivating journey through time.
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St Ives Cambridgeshire England Town Walk
St Ives is a small market town in Cambridgeshire England near Huntingdon. Human settlement here was known more than 1000 years ago. One legend claims that peasant found on his field the remains of Saint Ivo of Ramsey.
Nowadays St Ives is a cosy town pleasant for walkers. You can see some historical objects here. For example, Bridge of St Ives that was built in 1420s and was in active use until another bridge was built in 1980! The Bridge is Grade I listed monument. The unique feature of the bridge is chapel that was originally served for taking money for crossing the bridge and for pray and thanks for a safe journey. Only four such medieval bridge chapels survived in England. St Ives chapel is one of them.
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Picking Towns brings you a virtual bike ride from the village of Cottenham to the village of Landbeach. Both villages are situated in to the north of Cambridge.
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The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. This region was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics purposes from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.
The population of the East of England region in 2018 was 6.24 million. Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous towns. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.The East of England region has the lowest elevation range in the UK. Twenty percent of the region is below mean sea level, most of this in North Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and on the Essex Coast. Most of the remaining area is of low elevation, with extensive glacial deposits. The Fens, a large area of reclaimed marshland, are mostly in North Cambridgeshire. The Fens include the lowest point in the country in the village of Holme: 2.75 metres (9.0 ft) below mean sea level. This area formerly included the body of open water known as Whittlesey Mere. The highest point in the region is at Clipper Down at 817 ft (249 m) above mean sea level, in the far southwestern corner of the region in the Ivinghoe Hills.
Communities known as New Towns, responses to urban congestion and World War II destruction, appeared in Basildon and Harlow (Essex), as well as in Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire), in the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s, the Roskill Commission considered Cublington in Buckinghamshire, Thurleigh in Bedfordshire, Nuthampstead in Hertfordshire and Foulness in Essex as locations for a possible third airport for London. A new airport was not built, but a former Royal Air Force base at Stansted, which had previously been converted to civilian use redeveloped and expanded in the following decades.
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Since post-Roman times (6th Century), England between the Wash and just south of the town of Colchester has been known as East Anglia, including the county traversing the west of this line, Cambridgeshire. The inclusion of Essex as part of East Anglia is open to debate, notably because it was a Saxon kingdom, separate from the kingdom of the East Angles.
Essex, despite meaning East-Saxons, previously formed part of the South East England, as did Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, a mixture of definite and debatable Home Counties. The earliest use of the term is from 1695. Charles Davenant, in An essay upon ways and means of supplying the war, wrote, The Eleven Home Counties, which are thought in Land Taxes to pay more than their proportion... then cited a list including these four. The term does not appear to have been used in taxation since the 18th century.Essex 1. Thurrock U.A.
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4. Hertfordshire a) Three Rivers, b) Watford, c) Hertsmere, d) Welwyn Hatfield, e) Broxbourne, f) East Hertfordshire, g) Stevenage, h) North Hertfordshire, i) St Albans, j) Dacorum
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11. Suffolk a) Ipswich, b) East Suffolk, c) Babergh, d) Mid Suffolk, e) West SuffolkThe former electricity company for the area, Eastern Electricity, has the area's distribution now looked after by UK Power Networks at Fore Hamlet in Ipswich. UK Power Networks also looks after London and most of the South-East. Business Link in the East of England is next door to the headquarters of T-Mobile UK in Hatfield, at the roundabout of the A1057 and the A1001 on the Bishops Square Business Park. The region's Manufacturing Advisory Service is at Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, off the A10 and north of Royston. UK Trade & Investment for the region is in Histon with its international trade team based next to Magdalene College.
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Exploring Huntingdon and Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, England - 28 August, 2021
Exploring Huntingdon and Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, England - 28 August, 2021: .
Huntingdon is a market town in Cambridgeshire, England, chartered by King John in 1205. Having been the county town of historic Huntingdonshire, it is now the seat of the Huntingdonshire District Council. It was the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell in 1599, who became its Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th century. To read more about Huntingdon, click here: .
Godmanchester is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Its buildings are concentrated at the north end, including a section of the south-to-east bank of the River Great Ouse facing the large Portholme flood-meadow at the south end of Huntingdon. To read more about Godmanchester, click here: .
This film features footage from a pedestrian exploration of both Huntingdon and Godmanchester, the film begins and ends at Huntingdon railway station.
Within the film the following locations and features are identified in Huntingdon: Huntingdon Railway Station, Huntingdon Station West Car Park, Brampton Road, A14 viaduct demolition, East Coast Main Line, Edison Bell Way, Ermine Street, St. John's Street, High Street, The Church of St. John The Baptist, Ambury Road South, Bloomfield Park, Brookside, Nursery Road, Hartford Road, Riverside Road, Riverside Car Park, River Great Ouse, Riverside Playground, Bridge Foot, The Avenue, The Old Bridge, Alconbury Brook, Mill Common, Waters Meet, Walden Road, Castle Moat Road, High Street, Old Bridge Hotel, St. Mary's Church, Market Square, Assembly Rooms, Huntingdon War Memorial, All Saints Church, Oliver Cromwell Museum, George Street, Sandford House, St. John's Almshouses, The Sebastopol Cannon and Millfield Park.
Within the film the following locations and features are identified in Godmanchester: Riverside Mill, The Avenue, Cooks Backwater, Cooks Bridge, Godmanchester War Memorial, Post Street, Church Place, St. Mary The Virgin Godmanchester Parish Church, Chadley Lane, Cambridge Street, Causeway, Old Queen Elizabeth School, Chinese Bridge, Godmanchester Backwater, Chinese Bridge, Godmanchester Town Hall, Godmanchester Main Sluice, The Pit, Godmanchester Recreation Ground, Queen's Walk, Wier Number 1, Wier Number 2, Godmanchester Lock, Great Ouse Navigation, Portholme Meadow, Queen's Walk Recreation Ground, The Waterfowl Sanctuary, West Street, Old Court Hall, Silver Street, Devana Close Recreation Area, Devana Close, Sweetings Road, London Road, Tudor Road, East Chadley Lane, Great Ouse Valley Way and Park Lane.
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NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE PARISH #5: LACEBY
Laceby, on the outskirts of Grimsby, is situated along the A46 on the edge of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds
The name Laceby is believed to mean farmstead or village of a man called Leifr, Leifr being an Old Scandinavian person name. There’s evidence to suggest there was a settlement here in Saxon times
Anglo-Saxon pottery was discovered in Coopers Lane in 1969, and nearby Welbeck Hill, to the West of the village is the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Roman pottery has also been found there
Laceby is synonymous with the name Stanford. In 1730, the Stanford Charity School was founded here by the Stanford Trust, set up by Sarah Stanford in accordance with her husbands will.
The school originally served the parishes of Laceby, Bradley and Barnoldby le Beck. The Stanford name lives on today thanks to the current school building and the library next door
Another important local name is Pawson, a family who moved here from Louth in the 1800s. Laceby used to be on the main road between Lincoln and Grimsby, but was bypassed in the 1960s.
It’s become a village popular for commuters, and although its grown over the years, it has maintained its sense of community. It once had a claim to fame too, regarding its pubs!
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The Best Bus Tour - Land's End - St.Ives | Cornwall, England | 1.5 Hour Ride in 6 minutes.
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Cold and Rainy in Cambridge City Centre, England; Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church
If you say Cambridge in North America, a lot of people will think of the city near Boston in Massachusetts. But there are several different towns and places named Cambridge in the world, including one in Ontario near to Toronto. There are other Cambridges in Australia, Barbados, various parts of Canada (i.e. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Nunavut...), Jamaica, Malta, New Zealand, and a few dozen across the United States. Even England has a few different places called Cambridge. But the main city named Cambridge in the United Kingdom is a town of about 130,000 in Cambridgeshire (in southeastern England, a few miles north of London). Cambridge, England is best known as a university town. Cambridge University is Britain's second oldest and most prestigious university after Oxford.
Cambridge isn't a very big city, in terms of physical size. It's less than half the size of the Old City of Toronto (Downtown Toronto and surrounding areas). The outlying suburbs may be bigger, but, overall, it isn't a very big city in terms of physical size. You can walk from one side to the other pretty easily, if you don't mind walking. The city core isn't very big and a lot of it is dominated by the university. The older parts of the city surround the city centre, with older houses and buildings. In the outlying suburbs you have newer buildings, with the type of houses you'd see in your average North American suburban subdivision.
England lived up to its reputation for being cold and wet when I was there in July 2016. Toronto was very hot when I left, but England was cold and rainy. I didn't dress properly and was cold all the time. Better bring a jacket or sweater even if you go to England in the summer, or better yet a raincoat.
This video was taken in Cambridge City Centre, when I got caught in a rain storm, found shelter in a building doorway, and took this short video. Cambridge has lots of churches, so I'm not sure exactly which one this is. But it looks like it might be the Our Lady and the English Martyrs (OLEM) Roman Catholic Church near Hills Road and Lensfield Road. This is a Gothic Revival style church built between 1885 and 1890.
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St Ives, Cambridgeshire Walk: Town Centre【4K】
Located in the county of Cambridgeshire, and around 60 miles north of London, is the town of St Ives (not to be confused with the town of St Ives in Cornwall).
During the Saxon era, the settlement was known originally as Slepe. Sometime around 1001-1002 AD a peasant is said to have discovered the remains of Ivo of Ramsey, a Cornish Celtic Christian Bishop and hermit, while ploughing a field. St Ivo was said to have died here around 600 AD. The discovery of his remains led to the foundation of St Ivo's Priory on the site, attracting many pilgrims.
The town's first charter was granted in 1110 by Henry I, allowing it to host a fair for eight days each Easter. The St Ives Easter fair went on to become one of the four biggest fairs in England during the 13th century.
In 1107 the monks of Ramsey Abbey (Ramsey being a neighbouring town) built a wooden bridge across the River Great Ouse which runs through St Ives. In 1414 it was decided to replace this bridge with a stone arch bridge, which was completed in 1425. In 1426 a chapel was built on the bridge, dedicated to St Leger. This makes it one of only four bridges in England with a chapel attached (the other three being at Rotherham, Wakefield and Bradford-on-Avon). The location of the bridge at the last natural crossing point on the river, around 50 miles from the sea, made it a key source of income for St Ives during the medieval era, as it was tolled, and many drovers brought their livestock to the market from the surrounding countryside.
Between 1631 and 1636 Oliver Cromwell lived on a farmstead in St Ives after selling most of his properties in the neighbouring town of Huntingdon where he was born. This quiet life is said to have triggered a spiritual awakening in Cromwell. However, in 1636 he left for Ely after inheriting yet more property. Cromwell would of course lead the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War, after which he became Lord Protector of the short-lived republic of England, Scotland and Ireland. A statue of Oliver Cromwell is seen in the town centre of St Ives. This was placed in 1901, following a rejection of a like-for-like statue to be placed in Huntingdon where he was born, perhaps owing to his controversial legacy, particularly in regards to the Irish campaign of 1649-1650.
At the western end of the town is All Saints Parish Church. This is seen at the end of the walk. Most of the building that stands today dates from the late 15th century. The spire has been rebuilt multiple times over the centuries. One notable occasion was in March of 1918 when a student pilot from the nearby Royal Flying Corps station in the nearby village of Wyton (now RAF Wyton) died in a tragic accident as he crashed into the spire. The other church with the tall spire in town is St Ives Free Church. This is seen from the start of the walk, and dates back to 1864.
Between the 17th and 19th century St Ives became a key hub for trading. Goods were transported across the River Great Ouse and waterways via horse-drawn barges. Typically, coal was brought in from the port of King's Lynn and corn was transported in the opposite direction. Livestock was sent south to Smithfield Market in London. The architecture around the quay is indicative of the prosperity of St Ives during this period.
In 1847 the railway arrived in St Ives, courtesy of the Great Eastern Railway. This was a junction station which had links to Cambridge to the southeast, Ely to the north and Huntingdon to the west. In 1970 it fell victim to the Beeching Axe which saw over 2000 stations across Britain closed to make way for increased road usage via the then brand new motorways. The station was demolished in 1977 and is now occupied by the St Ives Park and Ride area just to the right of where the walk starts on Station Road, hence the street name.
Historically St Ives was part of Huntingdonshire up until 1974.
The 18th century riddle as I was going to St Ives is thought to allude to either this town or St Ives in Cornwall. At the time both were well-established towns so are equally likely settings. The riddle was featured in the 1995 movie Die Hard with a Vengeance.
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8:36 Bridge Street
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10:38 The Broadway
12:19 The Waits
15:25 Ramsey Road
16:09 Church Place
16:23 All Saints Parish Church
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Walk in Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge is a university town in England. I walk through the streets and across the market square. Along the University and to the Cam. Very nice English town with modern shopping center.
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