10 Most Hated Towns in England
What are the most hated towns in England? No matter how good a country is, every part of it can’t be loved equally. In fact, some parts of it are bound to be hated. Even the most fanatic lover of a country will love some parts of it less than others. I have heard some people complaining about some towns in England, the home of the Queen that some people are dying to live and work in. That prompts research into the 10 most hated towns in England.
This ranking is based mainly on the comments and complaints of residents of England and visitors to those towns. But it’s not limited to that since some complaints can be completely baseless. We dig deeper in researching these 10 most hated towns in England.
10. Slough
Let’s begin with Slough, a town in Berkshire, within the historic county of Buckinghamshire. This town is 20 miles west of central London and 19 miles northeast of Reading. You will find the town in the Thames Valley and within the London metropolis around the area at the intersection of the M4.
In spite of its location, Slough according to those visitors, is a town whose streets are littered with empty takeaway and full of packets or empty beer cans. This assertion hasn’t been contradicted by even just one resident. The quality of food in the town’s restaurants appears, kind of, made for losers who’re just out to eat as much unhealthy food as they can get away with.
9. Scunthorpe
It’s not desirable to find Scunthorpe among the most hated towns in England. Unfortunately, we can’t afford to take it out of our list because the facts obviously place it there. This industrial town in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire should normally be the pride of Lincolnshire as its main administrative center. But the town with an estimated population of 82,334 in 2016 had many things going against it.
Residents of the UK’s largest steel processing center, also known as the Industrial Garden Town, are frustrated by a lack of the liveliness and diversity in the town only known for work. However, the loudest grouse that lists Scunthorpe alongside the most hated towns in England is the indiscriminate censorship and blocking of websites for spurious reasons.
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Best Things to Do in Herefordshire, England | Black Hill, Hereford, Hay-on-Wye and Ludlow
Hey everyone! Earlier this year we spent one week in Herefordshire and the surrounding area for a big family get together. In this video we show you the best things to do in Herefordshire, England including Black Hill, Hereford, Hay-on-Wye and Ludlow. (And yes we know Hay-on-Wye and Ludlow aren't technically in Herefordshire but they are easily doable as a day trip from Hereford and are well worth a visit if you are in the area!)
Herefordshire is a county of England bordering South Wales and is full of rolling farmland, wooded hills and beautiful river valleys. We have a whole video planned for the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is why it doesn't feature in this one! But as you will soon see you should definitely add it to your list of places to see in Herefordshire along with the locations in this video!
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Clevedon in North Somerset is a popular Victorian seaside resort near Bristol. (About 12 miles from Bristol).
I took the X6 bus there from Bristol Bus Station and got off at Salthouse Fields which is next to the promenade. It’s just a short walk accross the beach.
I started my walk at the Marine Lake and walked towards the iconic Clevedon Pier.
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Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. Cheddar is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross.
Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transported on the Cheddar Valley rail line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path. The village is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper. Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s, it has a capacity of 135 million gallons. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted. It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried. It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station to Witham.
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Looking to live in North Somerset the village of Yatton with easy access to the M5 and rail links to Bristol and London could be your ideal location.
HEREFORDSHIRE Leintwardine, Wigmore & Yatton
All three of these villages are in the north of the county, although Yatton is really no more than a hamlet. It should also be noted that this Yatton shouldn’t be mixed up with the other Yatton in the SE of the county
At Leintwardine there is the confluence of the Rivers Clun and Teme – thereafter becoming the River Teme as it heads off towards the very impressive weir at Bromfield and on to Ludlow. At Leintwardine I took the opportunity to go for a stroll over the nearby Church Hill, which has excellent views westwards over the village and towards the Shropshire Hills
Wigmore lies 3 to 4 miles further south and the main purpose of my journey was to revisit the castle, which for the English had significance during the 13th and 14th centuries. It is a castle which was held by the Mortimers - your archetypal Marcher Lords. Whilst not really accessible to those a little frail or with impediment, it does have fine views eastwards over Wigmore Moor to the hills
Yatton was barely 2 miles further south and for which I wished to climb up Yatton Hill. The views here are excellent to the N, NW. W and SW and there is a pleasant group of trees for shade at the top, which was needed seeing as it was an absolutely scorching hot day. As I visited in late June 2019 there was an enormous amount of fern growing across the hillside Common – too much so in fact and it would be better to visit at a different time of year perhaps. At least the paths were clear!
Very close to Yatton (about 1m S as the crow flies) is Croft Ambrey, a National Trust property for those so inclined to visit
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Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. Cheddar is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross.
Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transported on the Cheddar Valley rail line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path. The village is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper. Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s, it has a capacity of 135 million gallons. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted. It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried. It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station to Witham.
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Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. Cheddar is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross.
Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transported on the Cheddar Valley rail line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path. The village is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper. Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s, it has a capacity of 135 million gallons. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted. It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried. It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station to Witham.
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Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheddar - UK )
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. Cheddar is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles north-west of Wells. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross.
Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transported on the Cheddar Valley rail line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path. The village is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.
The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper. Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.
Cheddar Reservoir is a near-circular artificial reservoir operated by Bristol Water. Dating from the 1930s, it has a capacity of 135 million gallons. Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.
Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted. It was on the Cheddar Valley line, a railway line that was opened in 1869 and closed in 1963. It became known as The Strawberry Line because of the large volume of locally-grown strawberries that it carried. It ran from Yatton railway station through Cheddar to Wells (Tucker Street) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet (High Street) railway station to Witham.
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Bristol, England - the harbor and other attractions
In this video are presented the main attractions of Bristol, a city in southwest England on the River Avon. The city had a lot of historical and heritage sites, like Bristol Cathedral and the Lord Mayor's Chapel, which are not to be missed. From the fascinating art and artefacts at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to the architectural splendour of the Clifton Suspension Bridge , there’s a lot of places to see here.
Attractions: Bristol Cathedral, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol Temple Meads Central Station, St Mary Redcliffe church, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Cabot Tower, The Victoria Rooms.
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Brompton Touring Group tour of Somerset, Bristol to Bath camping near Frome, Cheddar to Yatton
A little overnight tour I arranged for the Brompton touring group. We met at Bristol Templemeads Station at 12am. Our route took us to Bath and then on to our campsite at Vallis Veg for a nearly wild camping experience. Day 2 started with a road section taking in the spectacular Cheddar Gorge before picking up the Strawberry Line trail to Yatton to end our tour
'09 - Union of South Africa - The Royal Duchy @ Yatton.
This is LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009 Union of South Africa departing Yatton Station, heading the Bristol Temple Meads to Par, Railway Touring Company Royal Duchy
'09 escaped my clutches last Thursday by detouring round my chosen location, so I was determined to grab it today.
Yatton station was originally built, as the original name suggests, to serve passengers for Clevedon, who would travel on by road. On 28 July 1847, the B&ER opened a branch line between Yatton and Clevedon, and so renamed Clevedon Road station as Yatton. A bay platform was built on the north side of the station to accommodate branch traffic, with an unusual canopy which covered the entire bay, as well as the eastbound platform. The canopy included louvre ventilation.There was also a connection from the main line, albeit at a 10 miles per hour speed limit, for the few direct trains from Bristol.This too was built to broad gauge. These services were also operated by the Great Western Railway, until 1849 when the Bristol & Exeter took over its own workings. From 1867, Yatton was also served by coal trains for the local gasworks.
The former Cheddar Valley Railway is now a footpath starting at Yatton station.
Yatton became even more important on 3 August 1869 when the Bristol & Exeter opened the broad-gauge Cheddar Valley Railway, which became famous for the transport of strawberries from stations such as Axbridge and Cheddar. The line was extended to Wells on 5 April 1870, where it joined with the East Somerset Railway line from Witham, and through services from Yatton to Witham became normal for this line, with between five and seven services daily.To accommodate this new traffic, another bay platform was built, this time on the south side of the station. A canopy similar to the one for Clevedon trains was built for this bay, and for passengers at the end of the westbound platform.
On 1 January 1876, the Bristol & Exeter was amalgamated into the GWR, who took over the running of the station and services. In 1879, the Clevedon branch was converted to 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.This followed a scheme throughout the GWR to convert its tracks from broad gauge to mixed gauge. The last GWR broad-gauge train operated on 20 May 1892, after which all tracks were converted to standard gauge. The conversion of the Clevedon line coincided with the opening of an engine shed for branch traffic.A turntable for Cheddar Valley trains was built at around the same time.Cheddar Valley Line, with a mixed mail train on Sundays. Traffic was to increase from 1901 with the opening of the Wrington Vale Light Railway. Although this line joined the Cheddar Valley Line at Congresbury, most services continued to Yatton. The line was known for the transport of mushrooms.
By the 1920s Yatton had 40 staff employed, including a boy selling chocolate and cigarettes, and issued almost 60,000 tickets. Traffic on the Clevedon branch was still climbing. However, despite this success, there were some problems. Better road transport was reducing traffic along the Wrington line, and the main line was stretched to capacity. To combat this latter problem, goods loops were laid either side of the station -- east for 1.25 miles to Claverham from 6 April 1925 and west for 1.75 miles to Huish level crossing on 26 May 1925. The station itself however remained a two-track pinch point.
The Wrington Vale line closed in 1931 and In 1938 coal traffic to the gas works ended, though there was some through coal traffic along the Clevedon branch. The Cheddar line was not faring well either: the number of tickets sold along the line had decreased dramatically since the early 1900s, although there was still a significant flow of strawberries, milk and cheese to London. The railways were nationalised in 1948, with the GWR becoming the Western Region of British Railways, but this did not halt the decline. The line was closed to passengers in 1963, with the only traffic to serve a private siding near Cheddar, but this too closed in 1969.
The Clevedon branch was seeing increased passenger traffic, up to 26 trains daily and 10 on Sundays by 1958, and in 1956 the unusual canopy was taken down, replaced by a second-hand canopy from Dauntsey railway station. However, this uptick was not to last: coal traffic along the line ended in 1951, and by 1963 there were no longer any freight workings. The line closed completely on 3 October 1966, taking the station's bookstall with it. The Claverham loops had been closed on 6 September 1964, and the goods yard at Yatton was closed on 29 November 1965. The now-redundant bay platforms were converted into car parks, and the canopy on the westbound platform removed along with the two water towers. On 24 January 1972, the passing loops to the west of the station were cut back to 0.5 miles, and the station's signal box, which had had 129 levers, closed on 31 January the same year.
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Clevedon Walk: Town Centre & Beach【4K】
Located in the county of Somerset, and around 12 miles west of Bristol, is the town of Clevedon.
Geographically, Clevedon is situated along the Bristol Channel in between Portishead to the northeast and Weston-super-Mare to the southwest. In the 14th century Clevedon Court was built around two miles inland. Since the early 18th century it has been owned by the wealthy Elton family.
Up until the early 19th century, Clevedon was a small farming village. This began to change from around the 1820s when the Elton family of Clevedon Court sold building plots, ushering in a period of transformation, turning it into a seaside resort.
Clevedon's growth was boosted by the arrival of the railway in 1847. The station and its tracks formed the entirety of the Clevedon Branch Line, which connected to Yatton station, which in turn provided links to Bristol and Exeter among other destinations. However, in 1966 the station closed due to the Beeching cuts - a controversial move where over 2,000 stations across Britain were lost in an effort to promote road travel. Today, public transport to Clevedon consists of direct buses from Bristol, Portishead, Weston-super-Mare and other nearby settlements.
In 1869 Clevedon Pier opened. Part of it was constructed from disused sections of Brunel's nearby railway line. In its early days it received paddle steamer passengers from Devon and Wales. It is England's only Grade I listed pier, and was once described by John Betjeman as the most beautiful pier in England.
In 1938 the first large scale production of penicillin took place in Clevedon. Work continued through the Second World War to provide aid for soliders suffering from infections.
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Filmed: 4th May 2023
Link to the walk on Google Maps:
Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Hillside Road
0:19 Old Church Road
2:35 The Triangle
3:14 Station Road
4:17 Old Church Road
5:38 Old Street
7:15 Chapel Hill
9:08 Lower Linden Road
11:30 Linden Road
14:18 Bellevue Road
16:18 Hill Road
19:11 Copse Road
20:07 Lea Grove Road
21:44 Marine Parade
23:56 The Beach
26:27 Clevedon Beach
Yatton Station. Somerset.
Yatton Station is on the Bristol to Exeter Line. Opened 1841. Passengers for 2020/21 were 0.101 Million.