American Reacts to the Most LOVED Cities in the UK
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- I am always looking to learn more about different cities in the United Kingdom, which is why I am very excited today to react and learn about the 12 most loved cities in the UK. One of the mose fascinating parts of this video will be getting to see what exactly is so beloved in these different places by the citizens of the UK. There could be so just many different reasons such as the culture, people, events, and places to name a few.
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Had to laugh when Cardiff followed Liverpool after he said ' Here's another City by water' Could that be because we live on an island
Oxford and Cambridge are both cities with famous universities, with the boat race. edinburgh is famous for castle on the rock. Yes London is nightmare for traffic, loads and I mean loads of people, it's packed and very busy. Yes most streets are as small as you see on pictures. It's like asking someone in UK what are states of US, heard of some, but could we name no.
Exactly right
it might be because pretty much every city is built near to a body of water. it's vital for life, transport, farming, building etc etc. this is like primary school geography
Would help if he knew no place in the UK is more than 70 miles from the coastline
@@85parrot Lots of places in the UK have numerous bridges because they are separated by bodies of water.
The Mayflower, which I presume you have heard of set sail from Plymouth to America in 1620 with passengers that became known as the pilgrim fathers, who in turn influenced the future of America. Plymouth, Massachusetts took its name from Plymouth in the UK and New York was named after York. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are known by the cities in which they were established.
For some reason, the compiler of the video appears to have gone out of his way to pick the most unilluminating photographs to illustrate each city and avoided the most iconic landmarks that make them famous.
FYI, New York was named in honour of The Duke of York, later James II, not directly after the City of York.
@@johnp8131 So it's full name is New Duke of York.
@@johnp8131 Isn’t that much the same thing? As NY was named after the Dukedom in England that the Duke of York held the title for, thus alluding to the idea of extending his Dukedom to include areas in the New World (New York)… in name at least.
@@Dee-me3ug Sigh!!! It's named after a person. It's really not that difficult? Why do you think I said "Not directly"?
@@johnp8131 I think we're splitting hairs (or maybe even heirs) here. If James Stuart had been the Duke of Cornwall, it would be called New Cornwall. Ergo, it's really named after a place. It's like saying New England was named after the King of England because it's his name, rather than where he was King of. Let's not get bogged down with such semantics and teach him about New Amsterdam or Manna-hata instead.
I'm surprised Bath wasn't on this list as it's regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the UK.
... and Norwich, Exeter, Salisbury and Chester. Nor did I realise that Brighton was actually a city!
Been to Bath twice, love it.
@@saxon-mt5by I thought Brighton was a town.
@@lj50 Brighton got city status in the year 2000
I'm surprised Bristol aint on the list as it frequently tops best cities to live in England.
@@saxon-mt5by norwich? really mate? it's the bradford of the south
The York section didn't even begin to do it justice. York has got tons of interest with Roman, Medieval, Viking and more. "YORK England - Best Things to See - City Walk & History YORK" this is one of the best youtube vids on it with lots of cool places and quick fascinating background facts.
Yes, this video is rubbish - didn't even have a shot of The Shambles... None of these cities were done justice here.
York, but no photo of the ancient city walls, the largest gothic cathedral (minster) north of the Alps, or the Shambles, or Clifford's Tower, or...
I can't believe the York video didn't even show the most famous building there - York Minster!
Yes I agree, I don't think this quick list did most of the cities their due justice
@@TylerRumple Dear Tyler,
York was where the Roman emperor Constantine, who (to cut a much longer story short) made Christianity the dominant religion in the Roman Empire, organised the Council of Nicea, and founded Constantinople*, was proclaimed emperor. There's a statue commemorating that, and because of its role in Christianity (through Constantine), the Archbishop of York ranks third in the Church of England ( after the Monarch, who's Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church, followed by the Archbishop of Canterbury ) and crowns the king or queen of the UK if the Archbishop of Canterbury isn't available. The city was also used as a capital when "Vikings" (technically a misused term because it usually means raiders who land, pillage, and sail away, rather than a massive full-scale invasion force which goes on to occupy a country) ruled most of England, so the Jorvik Viking Centre has an archeological museum you can visit (a little like the train in Jurassic Park), complete with the reconstructed toilets of the period. There's also a rail museum, York Minster, and lots of other places I'll leave Yorkists to recommend to you in more detail.
As regards Edinburgh (I was hoping the capital would be on the list, so first place was brilliant, not that I am biased), there are at least two places, Holyrood House, and Edinburgh Castle, which are "castly". And then there's the view of the Scott Monument featured in Cloud Atlas (who's cutting onions ? ).
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We don’t do city renovation much in the UK. We waited for the German Air Force to create opportunities for city designers.
Jealous you thought of it first 😂🦁
Hey. Don't forget the IRA.
Actually town planners demolished a lot more post-war than was damaged in the blitz
Putin might obliterate it again. Be careful what you wish for!
City planners destroyed more of our cities than anyone else.
No idea why Bath isn’t on the list. Its architecture is pretty much unmatched. I’m dubious as to how they carried out this survey and on what percentage of the population - or how it was structured: ie whether they gave participants a list of cities to rate or whether they allowed participants to name their own preferences.
Bath would definitely be on the list , survey definitely a bit dodgy
I'll have to take a look at Bath. Quite a few people have mentioned it!
@@TylerRumple It’s amazing. It was founded by the Romans around 2,000 years ago. It’s used in a lot of films, particularly period dramas, and mostly by the BBC.
Let's face it Bath is insignificant and irrelevant to be included on any list
also the fact Plymouth was below Portsmouth when nearly everyone agress that Portsmouth is one of the most boring and irrelevant cities in england💀💀💀
I’m from Newcastle. The ‘disco ball’ building is called ‘The Sage’ which is a music venue. The Sage is actually not in Newcastle. It’s on the south side of the River Tyne in the neighbouring town of Gateshead. A lot of Newcastle’s city centre is early 19th neo classical architecture, but we have a mix of modern buildings as well as historical buildings dating back to medieval times (there’s even a few Roman remains). Newcastle has plenty of bridges, a Football stadium and a monument all in the city centre, but we don’t really have a prominent clock tower!
Fellow toon, we also are responsible for trains and the right for us poor people to vote 🙂
AND WE ALSO HAVE THE BEST ACCENT !!!!!
Newcastle used to have a clock tower on the old town hall.
Also a Geordie here! Glad our city made the list, we are so unknown to foreigners surprisingly. Also why the narrator didn’t mention NUFC is beyond me. Also another little known fact is Lucozade was founded here
Hi me also from Newcastle,we have a cathedral 💒
@@dianerodgers3130 Three Cathedrals. St Nicholas’ (Anglican), St Mary’s (Catholic), St James’ (Football)
Those are not sheds on the beach. Those are huts for changing into your beach clothes.
They are mostly privately owned, they can costs anywhere from £15,000 to £30,000 ($16,995 to $33,922 USD).
Beach huts are ridiculously expensive now, they stayed relatively cheap for years, then in the eighties and nineties...BOOM!
I knew a couple in the 80’s who spent 6 months having Tantric sex in a Brighton beach hut. I kid you not.
there are still sheds on the beach though,just overpriced ones
Due to the shape of our island, most places in the UK are by water:youre never far from the coast.
That's just not true, I was born in a town firmly in the centre of a triangle formed by Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. These are about as far away from the coast as you can get in Britain.
@@paulroberts7561 under 100 miles from the coast anywhere in the UK. Americans will drive that far just for cocktails.
I live about 70 miles from the coast, which is about as far as you can be from it.
H.Goering , something of an enthusiastic redesigner of London , tore down a huge number of old buildings in the early 40's
Love the expression
The thing with the clock towers, before clocks/watches etc were affordable to be worn by the common worker the local factories would employ a knocker upper, a person who went around in the morning waking people up in time for work. This person was eventually replaced by a clock tower. Nearly ever village, town and city has these.
Churches probably had their clocks before knocker uppers, to tell people when to worship. Knocker uppers would've been required anyway. Who sits outside a church staring at the clock all night rather than go to bed?
I have seen a painting called “The Knocker Up”, and was from the 1950s or 1960s. Knocker Ups were still active in living memory.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Yes most villages here have them and an old church ⛪️ they are everywhere ! I’m in Hertfordshire it’s beautiful countryside villages I don’t know 🤷♀️ why it’s never on videos ! 🏴🌹
Good points. I thought church towers were bell towers though before clocks were later installed in some? Bell ringers pulled the ropes on Sundays to ring the bell, and locals would know what time it was based on the number of rings.
Knocker-uppers were still needed as the bell ringers were part of the church, and only rang the bell at set times/dates, and special occasions (weddings etc).
Tyler - you must know that the Pilgrim Fathers embarked on the Mayflower in Plymouth in 1620 and disembarked at what they named Plymouth Rock and founded the Plymouth Colony . The house where they spent their last night in England (Island House) is still there. There is a memorial at the quay where they boarded the Mayflower called the Mayflower Steps - on either side the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack fly.
I’m a well travelled Australian and London is my absolute favourite city in the world to visit, closely followed by Edinburgh. Hoping to visit York next year. Very surprised that Bath isn’t on the list.
Glad you like Edinburgh! I grew up on the south side of the city. A day out for us was getting on the bus with my Mum and going to Princes Street Gardens to watch the colour-changing fountains and the highland dancing! Easily pleased. Mum took sandwiches and bottles of Kia Ora for a picnic on the grass below the castle. Happy Days!
That actually means a lot to me as a Londoner. I've been to Oz (Gold Coast) twice and could imagine living there quite happily, but I live 5 miles from London Bridge and work in central London and like almost everyone on the planet, i don't really appreciate what I have in my own back yard!
York is beautiful from a kiwi. I loved it London too.. actually an underrated one is hastings abbey.. i found that amazing.. mainly because it was where William the conqueror won
@@graememorrison333 I was so surprised how many people that live in London thier whole lives never go to see the palaces and stuff all over England.. i was there for a month and never visited half of what I wanted.. i went into lambeth palace grounds which obviously most people don't get to.. it was amazing
York is a must, you will need several days there. Agreed about Bath.
Although I live near Cardiff and love it York is by far my favourite, there is so many medieval buildings that have survived that if you go out to certain areas early in the morning before the crowds arrive it feels like you have been transported back in time.
York is Merrie England. It is pretty but boring. Once you have done the touristy bits, it is a glorified theme park. Compared to other Northern cities, like Manchester and Liverpool, it is a cultural desert. It is great if you want to pay London prices for everything, without London facilities.
Remember that all these cities were once villages, hundreds of years ago, so of course have their own church's and town halls etc. EVENYTHING in the UK has so much history.
As a Geordie I can say that Newcastle has some fantastic architecture. Grey Street and the Theatre Royal are beautiful.
As a fellow Geordie, I agree! Howay the lads!
Great place
Sounds like an amazing place
@jenscee7679; I love the city of my birth, Liverpool, but when I went to Newcastle uni in the 1960s I felt as though it was walking back in time to older Liverpool as so much of the architecture was similar but more of it was preserved. Grey Street without a doubt is one of the most beautiful. Also love York (briefly the capital of England around 1298, known as Jorvik c.865-950), Edinburgh, Chester, Norwich and Lincoln.
My mums family were from Newcastle, they moved down South to London for work, so my Mums mum was London born although the rest of her brothers and sisters had been born in Newcastle, She married a Cockney man and my mum was born along with 13 other kids although only seven survived because of TB, then my mum married my dad also a Cockney and then I was born after my brother, so although I'm a Cockney had it not been for my relatives moving south for work I may have been a Geordie. Strange how things work out, and how we can be born in a place because of previous situations affecting people.
Norwich, Norfolk is a beautiful city with a lot of history
Love Norwich - so much history with its 11th century cathedral and castle.
Norwich was voted to have the best permanent market in all of the UK.
It's right in the city centre, beside the old Guildhall.
Norwich is very nice city have lived here for years
Hi Tyler, as it happens, I live in Edinburgh. (Say Edin-bu-ruh slowly a few times, then build up your speed, you'll get there - burgh being the Scottish version of borough, meaning a town that is officially recognised as such with right to elect a town council to run its affairs, etc.) I knew right away that we'd be number 1, we always are in these things! It's the fact we're built on seven hills - some of which are volcanic plugs, the architecture of the Old and New Towns, plus the Forth Bridge - all three of which have World Heritage Site status: the relatively compact size, the excellent connectivity and transport networks; we have loads of parks and open spaces with mature trees, a reasonably mild climate (for Scotland, anyway), relatively little rainfall, as number of annual festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe Festival every August and now in its 75th year - the launchpad of many famous musicians, comedians, actors and other artists, it's usually nice and clean - and we are also the safest city in the UK in terms of likelihood of being attacked. In addition, we have four universities, we're a seat of Government, finance, ecclesiastical hierarchies; we host museums and galleries of our national collections as well as local ones, we have many, many hotels and other types of tourist accommodation, restaurants of every conceivable type, sandy beach resorts within our suburbs and much else besides...! You need to visit us someday - you could even stay with me if you to - I love showing people around! Yes, we do have this irritating habit of naming universities after the places they're situated in - though not exclusively so. We like confusing you, you see... And yes, most of our cities are built around major rivers or their lowest crossing points - it's something to do with trading in the days when there weren't many other transport options... Of these, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester are inland - everywhere else is as or near the coast, or able to accommodate even the largest ships nearby, in the case of London. Manchester's main waterway is a ship canal, in fact. York is a Roman City - it still has much of its walls in place to prove it! Others I thought might make the list but haven't include Bath, Bristol, Durham, and Glasgow - I'll leave you to do your own research...
Burgh is also found in England.
There are currently a total of 72 such cities in the United Kingdom: 53 in England, seven in Scotland, seven in Wales, and five in Northern Ireland. And 43,551 Towns/Villages, and everyone will love theirs.
Wikipedia is currently out of date on this matter. There are actually 76 cities in the UK, with 55 in England, 8 in Scotland, 7 in Wales and 6 in Northern Ireland. There are also another 4 in overseas territories and crown dependencies.
@@h-Qalziel this is stupid, it is on there, but rather than just changing it, they left the old numbers at the top, and added this halfway down.
In addition to the cities on the main list, six new cities in the UK were announced in May 2022 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, which once confirmed will take the total number within the UK to 76, comprising 55 in England, eight in Scotland, seven in Wales and six in Northern Ireland.
@@h-Qalziel apparently these are the jubilee ones.
Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Colchester, Essex, England.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.
Douglas, Isle of Man.
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.
Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Wrexham, north east Wales.
And 6 of them are UK, so that would put it up 78. One of these statements is wrong.
@@jamieeadle7223 What wikipedia put is completely wrong. Before the Jubilee there were 70, previously 69 before Southend-on-Sea was added due to the death of Sir David Amess. 52 in England, 7 in Scotland, 6 in Wales, and 5 in Northern Ireland. Wikipedia seemed to have already added an extra city on to England and to Wales. The correct number is 76 cities in the UK.
Edinburgh - fantastic. Castle, Holyroodhouse (palace), hills, volcano, good food, pipers everywhere. Edinburgh New Town was designed in the late 1700s onwards. Hence, the now old looking buildings, broad roads and consistency in design. It has famous annual events - the Edinburgh festival for the arts and the Edinburgh tattoo for the military. Great place for a trip and a stepping off point for the Highlands and Islands.
I think you should point out that the volcano, known as Arthurs Seat is extinct and has been for several thousand years!
Interesting, thanks for the info LindyLou
Portsmouth - another historical naval dock yard. You can see Nelson’s ship there, HMS Victory. (A few Americans complain about the height problems but it was built for battles at the end of the 1700s.) also, in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard are HMS Warrior, the first iron ship, and the remains of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s flag ship, launched in 1511.
The Portsmouth haters are probably Southampton football supporters, although Portsmouth is an industrialised city and another one flattened by German bombers. So, it has lots of horrid modern buildings.
I was born & brought up in Portsmouth. It is a real rundown dump, full of chavs.
@@dogsbody49 every city has them
I love living in Portsmouth, it's a great little city. Full of history, great footy club and has a real sense of community.
That's what I feel anyway
I'm a Southampton supporter and I love Pompey. (The city, not the team). I went to school just north of the city and all my mates were Skates.
Portsmouth is a great place to live and the only Island City in the UK. It's also the most densely populated and has so much history , warships old and new and a great football club .
Having lived in London for 68 years, it is an amazing blend of the ancient, medieval, victorian and ultra-modern, often in the SAME STREET 😀
Liverpool is a beautiful city, its also a University city having around 4 universities. A lot if people move to Liverpool from around the country for university and stay here because they fall in love with the city. Liverpool is most definitely the friendliest city in the UK. The people really go out of their way to make people feel welcome. Interesting enough the Liver building clock faces are the biggest clock faces in the UK even being bigger than the Elizabeth towers big ben clock faces. The city also has an amazing underground/rapid transit system (Merseyrail) which is larger than than all other cities outside of London
Agreed and well said Gavin. i always see Liverpool as being the connection to everywhere else everyone has a connection to Liverpool in some way and it never leaves you once you've lived there
@@gazriley624 i was in the merchant navy what ever town city country i met a "scouser" FFS i was in Kobe Japan and 2 scousers walked into the bar i was drinking at
@@philiprice7875 i found Liverpool bars in NYC and Melbourne Australia! Full of Scousers
I’m from Pompey (Portsmouth) it’s my home, even though to outsiders the city and the area around it is poor, poverty ridden and unwelcoming, it’s the people that make my city special and it might be a shithole but it’s my shithole and I’m proud of my roots and I’m proud to be made in Pompey. (Ps they haven’t changed old Portsmouth at all and tbh we haven’t change since 2007)
I grew up near Portsmouth (Portchester) and my first job when I left school was in a shop in Charlotte Street. That was in 1959 before the Tricorn Centre was built. Although there are quite a few decent places in the city to visit, i.e. Gunwharf Quays, Port Solent, Albert Road, Palmerston Road/Osborne Road etc, the city centre needs a makeover and a lot of TLC. Overall though it's worth a visit.
Cambridge - an hour’s train ride from London. Beautiful. Historic. Almost no unemployment. Expensive for being such a distance from London.
Cambridge is very affluent type styles but very beautiful and historical
@@reneejones5675 Also famous for punting on the river. That's what those boats were. Punts.
@@robcrossgrove7927 I didn't boat but I did take photos of swans lol
I lived in Cambridge for 7 years but I prefer Oxford, mainly because of the flat, bleak countryside surrounding it.
As an Aussie I’ve been to More then half of these city’s and absolutely love Manchester and Chester
I was born in & have lived within 13 miles of Manchester all my life & I love it. I can be at the coast in an hour or in 3 national parks even sooner.
Nowhere in Britain is more than 53 miles from the sea which I love 😁
Manchester is totally different to the rest of the North of England. It is in it but not of it, I think.
@@paulwild3676 what???
Oxford - that street sign to the left is a “no cars and motorcycles” sign! Oxford is a lovely city, much bigger than you think. Great museums and so much history. Plagued with students and tourists (!) Get there early.
Students don't "plague" Oxford; they are studying there! Tourists bring money into the beautiful city. Don't be so snobbish and ungrateful. Nobody complains about the residents blocking the streets and crowding the shops!
Manchester was built on a smallish river, but the "body of water" you see is the docks at the end of the Manchester Ship Canal buit in the 1880s to link the City's cotton mills to the world, it sill carries around 30,000 containers a year
My 12, not in any order of preference, are: York, Oxford, Sheffield, Exeter, St Davids, Chester, Doncaster, Derby, Brighton & Hove, Durham, Lincoln, Manchester. Cities I really do not like include: London, Westminster (in a much-disliked class of their own), Plymouth, Bristol, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Portsmouth, Leeds, Cardiff, Liverpool, Hull, Cambridge.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne are big cities with a great deal,of poverty, although they have some majestic buildings. However, where they score is the character of their inhabitants, which is tremendous!
Some of your fellow TH-cam finding out about the UK have finally visited, and they all loved York, which is a massively historic city.
Oxford and Cambridge are very beautiful cities. One point is that there are very few 'University' buildings. In each University the students, or 'undergraduates' live and do a lot of their studies in individual 'Colleges' many of which are very historic.
Liverpool is booming these days
Newcastle isn't poverty stricken , one or 2 areas on the periphery are not so well off because of the government we've had for 13 years ! I was born in Wallsend which is named because it's where Hadrian's Wall starts (Roman name Segedunum) . Newcastle is on the river Tyne & a 20 min metro ride from our beautiful beaches .
Oxford has terrible poverty. The dreaming spires bit is sublime but the other side of the ring road is as run down as any city.
@@paulwild3676 There is a truth, that poor areas in otherwise wealthy areas of this country often suffer worst. Yes, there are poor areas of Oxford. Didn't the Blackbird Leys estate threaten to take the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights over the lack of policing?
@@jonathangoll2918 The worst poverty in Scotland is in Edinburgh.
I was born in York. Look it up.! It was the capital of England once !. York Minster is a beautiful Cathedral, and the Shambles Street is really world famous, tourists come from all over. The Viking centre celebrates the settling of the vikings, and plenty ofv Roman remains are still around from their time as well. Well worth your time!! .my home town.
Lived there for 7 years when my husband worked nearby. Would go back again in a heartbeat! Lovely people!
Oxford and Cambridge are both universities, but everything around them expands into a city of its own. Cambridge has its own famous rowing teams who compete regularly. In America, you refer to all education as school, but in UK and Australia, school only applies to the first twelve years of education from kindergarten to high school. Universities and Colleges are not referred to as schools.
We just went to Liverpool for the first time a few months back and loved it, it an amazing city and mix of new building and respectful of it old (at least what we saw) but they won something call capital of culture a few years back which brought benefits in £££ tourists and fame
An amazing city and we want to go back shortly again
We love our visitors and respect our heritage. Thanks 🍺
yeah, capital of culture was 2008. We are currently trying to host Eurovision next year. Absolutely bang on about the inhabitants here though. As an example - about 20 years ago there was a bomb scare at the grand national (famous horse race) with thousands of people being kicked out of the racecourse with no place to go (hotels all booked up) so complete strangers were driving down to the racecourse to bring stranded peiople back to their homes so that they had a place to sleep eat and shower
It's not a cosmopolitan city like the great metropolises of the western world...but behaves like one...is universal and parochial at the same time ..and retains a lovely kind of warmth and charm
York has a beautiful Minster with fantastic stained. glass windows. A Viking settlement with a wonderful museum showing it. It has one of the narrowest streets in England called the Shambles. Worth checking out.
Yes, I have been to York a couple of times, its a nice city to just have a stroll around, especially on a nice summers day.
i was born in Brighton and it has a rich history. The sheds are beach chalets and cost a fortune.
Probably not much breeding going on there now.
I'm from Brighton too, I was surprised it was on this list but I'm glad it is because I do love living here :)
Tyne is the name of the river in Newcastle.
A lot of cities are on the coast because the UK is a maritime nation - we're an island nation surrounded by sea.
Oxford and Cambridge are university towns - the oldest universities in the UK. Most cities have a university though.
Portsmouth and Plymouth are both naval bases as well. That's why they are both on the coast
Haha , probably the other way around 😉
Well a Naval base isn't going to be up a mountain is it Sherlock 😂
both shit to live in too🤦♂️😅
The last letters in the names PortsMOUTH and PlyMOUTH indicates the towns were built at the mouthes of rivers before they reached the sea. Other include Yarmouth, Monmouth etc all coastal towns.
@@lesleywilkie2848 Not to mention the Welsh equivalent: aber (again meaning mouth of a river) in ABERystwyth and ABERtawe (better known by its English name, Swansea - and ABERdeen in Scotland.
Tyler we have many beautiful cities with architecture and general environments to die for.Edinburgh & York would top my list too ……York particularly is a fabulously old city with Viking and Anglo - Saxon digs. The cathedral ( Minster) is to die for
London is a fantastic juxtaposition of ancient and modern. The scenery is just awe-inspiring when you’re in amongst it: Westminster/the Houses of Parliament versus the London Eye; the Tower of London or St. Paul’s Cathedral versus the Shard or any number of nearby skyscrapers; people who don’t appreciate that aspect of it have probably never been or are snobbish about it.
As an American we know Plymouth for the pilgrims , mayflower! 33 million of us are descendants from those that travelled across on it
Except it started it’s journey from Boston Lincolnshire…..
Transport by canal was very important in the founding of lots of these cities, that's why all the water.
Edinburgh is famous for its festival - technically at least 3 festivals - The Military Tattoo, The International Festival (lots of classical music and other more traditional things) and the Fringe Festival (lots of comedy amongst other things, and now the largest). The Royal Mile was on the route of the Queen's coffin, and the castle may have been involved in it too, as even in normal times they fire the canons there very audibly. It would be worth investigating and reacting to the festivals. There will be plenty of youtube videos on them.
The narration on that video was absolutely bizarre in places. Jugglers, Women's Own magazine... what?!
Liverpool my home, is more than the Beatles, we had lots of pop groups and singers. Liverpool football teams are well known, we are on the River Mersey which runs into the Irish Sea. Our architecture is excellent going from Tudor times to now. We were only second to London as Britain's major port, and the port is returning to being an important working one. We have many Museums and Art galleries all free. John Lennon Airport is at Speke.
Being in the North West we are in an easy position to visit other places. Like London we have a very mixed population from around the world.
Manchester is not far, but it only has canals from the industrial revolution.
we all love to knock liverpool but by god every one of us scousers LOVE our city
Dorothy Simpson ... Billy Fury being just one such singer. 🙂
Portsmouth (Pompey) is a great city. It has so much history, has a brilliant position in the country, and was the launching point of D-day, and was home to Arnold Schwarzenegger during his time as Mr Universe. It was also the home of Dickens, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
The city has a great football team too
Play up Pompey!!
I also have a real love affair of Cardiff. It's a lovely warm city and has great food as well
I will say mush, you’re the first person not calling it a horrible place, witch it can be. Thanks for the compliment
@@SomeRandomPunk well, I live and teach in Pompey, and although it lacks investment, it's a great little city, with a real charm!
And HG Wells, who worked in a pharmacy on Elm Grove. There used to be a plaque for him.
@@Joanna-il2ur That is a fact that I did not know. There should be a plaque for Christopher Hitchens, as he was from here, but alas....
Those clock towers you keep referencing. These are either, cathedrals, churches, town or city chamber buildings.
In medieval, middle ages a cities wealth was measured by how many nobles/ rich merchants built for their city, showing off their wealth. York my home city has 32!
Newcastle has to be specified as 'Upon Tyne' (On the river Tyne), because there are two Newcastle's. The other being Newcastle-Under-Lyme (Which could refer to Lyme Brook or the Forrest of Lyme.) Newcastle Upon Tyne is on the northeast coast of England; Newcastle-Under-Lyme is in the county of Staffordshire in the midlands.
There’s more than one other. I can think of at least two others
@@davidstretch5614 Hiya David. I'm sure you're right. We can discuss it when we're freezing our nuts off at a Uni game this winter. 😄
Natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of course, are known as "Geordies". My late father-in-law was a Geordie, and very proud of it!
I’m from Cambridgeshire and that first building in Cambridge was Kings college, 1 of the 31 colleges that are part of Cambridge University. Those boats are called punts, you can go along the river Camb to see the backs of the college’s. The back of kings is one of Cambridge’s best loved views.
I wonder if you look back on these comments Tyler because. The contributions people make would REALLY widen your knowledge of the world 😊
Clock towers are not just a city thing over here. They are usually found on churches. I live in a village and we have one. You could find a dozen or so within 30 mins of my house. Even some of the big country houses have there own.
So if you like clock towers and sound of bells you could go pretty much anywhere in the UK and not be disappointed
York is my all time favourite city, wish he had mentioned the history, there's a Roman wall going around the city, and York is famously known for being held by Ivor the Boneless huge historical Viking connections.
York was founded by Vikings and they called it Jorvik hence York.
When they began digging for the foundations of a new building they found the remains of a Viking settlement. It was preserved is in the basement of the new building. It’s called the Jorvik Viking Centre.
It has York Minster 1000 year old spectacular church.it’s absolutely beautiful.
There is a small street in the city called the Shambles all the buildings are Medieval.
There are Medieval city walls you can walk along.
There’s more but given the way they skipped over York and I had to say there’s a lot more there than they talked about
Oh and the River Ouse runs through it so yup more water 😁
I don’t live in York but if I win the lottery that’s where I’m moving to.
York is in the county of Yorkshire and it’s well worth looking into.
Agree nearly everything you need to see in York is within the walls plus there are the remains of a huge Roman fort underneath the minster
You wouldn’t know from the ridiculous video you’re reviewing that the reason York is so popular is because it contains a large amount of both Roman and Viking architecture. This is because it was founded by the Romans around 2,000 years ago (as was London), and then taken over by the Vikings when they invaded a few hundred years later and adopted as the capital of the Danelaw. It is also a walled/fortified city (as was London) with parts of the wall being the original Roman wall (sections of which also still exist around the central City of London) and parts being Viking. So, yes, historically and architecturally, much like Bath in Somerset, York is quite unique in being exceptionally attractive and interesting.
I live in Plymouth, 'the Ocean City.' Gateway to Cornwall, sea on two sides, Dartmoor National Park to the North. Its an amazing place, 80% destroyed in the blitz, now a jewel in the south west of the UK. A thriving University city, it's cosmopolitan and has a wonderful balance of modern and old architecture, lending it a unique aura.
I had no idea Dartmoors was close to Plymouth.. possibly went there then
Brighton Royal Pavilion is unique building and prob 1 top ten buildings in britain, built for king george, and inherited became a retreat for queen victoria who hated it, and to think they were going to demolish it in 1943 for a car park, thank it was sold off and not demolished, definitely live in Brighton
Norwich wasn't mentioned its a lovely city, has been voted to be happiest place to be i am so surprised it not on the list from Norfolk UK
I`ve been all over the UK - many dozens of times. Liverpool is the friendliest UK city I have ever been to. I liked the place within 10 minutes of arrival, having made friends out of total strangers in that time.
Strangely enough, as I was writing this I also had Cardiff in my mind as another very friendly city, which may come as a surprise to my fellow "Englanders." ( The Welsh have a reputation amongst some of us as being `haters` of the English. They were certainly not hateful toward me ).
Being from Liverpool - I appreciate your comment.
Liverpool most friendly? Nope! The English don’t dislike the Welsh, I’ve cousins who are half Welsh, I’ve had plenty of Welsh teachers, all lovely people.
Hello, Jemma. I didn`t say the English dislike the Welsh. I said that there is a misconception amongst us English that the Welsh don`t like us ( which I have found to be false, having lived in Dowlais, just outside of Merthyr Tydfill ).But Liverpool remains one of the friendliest cities I have ever been to.
`Strange thing is, everywhere I`ve ever been to I`ve found friends. None have been more friendly to me than Scousers.
Even New York City Coppers were nice to me.... Imagine that !
Hey up, bikeanddotrips. You`re welcome. `Wish I could cross the Pennines once more and spend more time in your great city.
I am from New Zealand and I found the welsh just like home.. they were lovely to me.. a girl called caryl (sorry spelling might be bad) took me horse riding in aberystwyth wales and taught me how to say hello my name is.... i wouldn't have a clue how to say it now.. but she was lovely
The "clock tower" in Liverpool is Liverpool Parish Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas.
And we have two cathedrals.
And the new buildings are a blight on the waterfront, if they were constructed to be "in keeping" with the aesthetic it would be a hell of a lot nicer.
That tall London building is "The Shard" - at about 1000 feet, it's one of the tallest buildings in Europe. The area of London to the west of that famous bridge (Tower Bridge) is largely historical, whereas the area to the east (shown in that photo) has undergone a huge amount of redevelopment in recent years, hence the modern buildings. And yes, New York was named after York.
Well now, I am much older than you are, and we did have geography at school, so I did know all the cities mentioned. But it tickled me pink hearing your comments on all of it. They couldv'e just mentioned the main tourist attractions of each city, that wouldv'e been nice. 🌹🐝🇿🇦
The problem with London is it’s size and how expensive it is compared with the rest of the UK. It has a very different vibe to the rest of the country
Manchester has a different vibe to the rest of the country, as does Glasgow. London is not unique in having a vivid way of life.
“That Disco Ball building” is in Gateshead: it is the Sage Centre, a concert hall that is NOT in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. They have to give Newcastle its full title because “Newcastle” could refer to Newcastle-under-Lyme, which is somewhere else entirely. Oxford: definitely a city! At 28:30 there is a still (with the bridge) connecting the old (right) and new (left) quadrangles of my college (Hertford College).
If anyone visits Edinburgh and dislikes it, they have no heart! It is so impressive.
Rivers in cities may look beautiful now, but remember that these cities have developed over centuries. Humans didn’t settle near water for the beauty of it, they did it because water is vital for human life, for agriculture, for industry, for trade, for transport. At the height of the Industrial Age, these rivers likely would not have appeared to be so beautiful, not only would they have been carrying sewage but industrial waste too
Traditionally to become a City there had to be a Cathedral, to be a Town, there had to be a Market Place otherwise the settlement was classed as a Village, so in theory there could be a Village which is larger than a City.
I grew up in a village that officially became a town recently, but was still smaller than the neighbouring village (which was also about the same size as the city I went to university in)
Cambridge has no cathedral (it’s in Ely, ten miles away), yet it’s always been a city.
One has to remember the many blitz attacks on U.K. Cities in world war 2.
Many were significantly damaged in air raids
Yes of course New York is named after "old" York in England. In fact there are several towns and cities in the USA named after York including Yorktown, Virginia. York is one of the oldest, most historic cities in England,. founded in 71 AD and its lovely medieval streets, old churches and historic landmarks makes it one the UK's most popular tourist destinations. I'm amazed that you've never heard of it since the place is crawling with American tourists usually.
Yes, York is indeed certainly old, although Colchester in Essex it seems is England's oldest city, being made the countries capital by the Romans in 43 AD, and before that it was a town/settlement recorded as far back as 10 BC.
A good few of your places named after ours. The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, the pilgrims from Boston, for a new life in the New World.
Liverpool should be number one! i love Liverpool
Between 1830 and 1930 over 9 million emigrants sailed from Liverpool to the USA. Chances are a number of your ancestors were among those 9 million people. The water that Manchester is on includes the Manchester Ship Canal. It connected Manchester to the Mersey close to Liverpool. Other rivers in Manchester feed the Mersey.
York is a stunning city , look up York minster cathedral its beautiful .
I live in Portsmouth UK!.... There is a section that is called "Old Portsmouth" its part of the original medieval town of Portsmouth....Portsmouth is also home to the Royal Navy...
She's a great city, isn't she ♥️
The whole of the Atlantic naval war 1939 to 45 was conducted in and underground bunker in Liverpool. It is now a museum.
I walk past this museum every day, I really do need to go inside. Liverpool has the largest collection of Museums and art galleries outside of London, and also the busiest underground train station outside of London.
@@g4viscon i am 62 havent been into a museum since school (speke hall like every kid in liverpool) but thing is i love history. i should start making an effect to go
Birmingham should be on the list - UKs 2nd city, 3 Universitys, more miles of canals than any city in the world, many attractions with a number of clock towers.
you are right Liverpool should be higher on the list! everyone loves Liverpool
I agree, its an amazing city with fantastic night life and beautiful architecture, lots to do etc.
Liverpool has two cathedrals, one being the largest in Europe, I believe,
no.
'Upon Tyne 'means 'on the River Tyne'. The maker of this film seems to have studiously avoided the photogenic parts of these cities, of which there are many!
I feel sorry for our cities that don’t live near the sea. I live in Liverpool and am only 1 mile from a beach that stretches miles, i go there every other day to take the dog for a walk and clear my head. I can’t imagine living in London or Birmingham where its chaos all of the time!
I'm always confused as to why people think all of London is busy.. Next time your'e in London - visit Chiswick, Kew, Holland Park, Ealing, Barnes, Richmond.. these are all villages towns in West & South West London where have lived and they are beautiful and peaceful but only 15 minutes from Central London. Perfect balance!
same here. I'm exactly 3.2km from Crosby Marina
Plymouth - very nice. Big naval town. Historic docks. Don’t aim to get the last train down there or finding a taxi to your final destination is difficult. Take lots of food and water with you if travelling by train - and a phone charger. The train journey from London is more than 5 hours, more if there’s a delay. Last time I went, the lights went out on the train for an hour in the dark due to a storm and the need to conserve electricity for travelling along the rails. And there was no food trolley 3 hours away from Plymouth. But it was still worth going there!
What is meant by the statement that Plymouth is the home of Sean Bean? Does he live there? He certainly wasn't born there. I can't decide whether the "most loved cities in the UK" is serious or just taking the piss - some of the facts quoted are a bit weird to say the least.
Haha.. being a Yorkshireman, that was my though when it mentioned Sean Bean.. he was born in Handsworth, Sheffield. We are about the same age and I used to live not far from there.
@@sleepytiger63 And I live near there now - Stradbroke.
Exactly, I was a bit strange? I've always associated Sean Bean with Sheffield.
And T.S. Eliot???
Liverpool - you either love it or hate it. Hence the low poll results. Liverpool has the most museums and art galleries outside London. Two cathedrals and two big football teams. It’s changed a lot from being almost derelict in post-war years resulting from bombs and the non-adoption of container shipping with the loss of dock land jobs. Nowadays every old building is converted into flats and hotels. And all building sites are having flats and hotels that look like car parks built on them, competing with Manchester. It’s now a big tourist attraction and hence the old warehouses around the main train station were pulled down to create a set of marble steps. No Liverpool jobs created - builders brought in from the EC. Something of the character has gone in return for tourist traps and food malls.
most people love it
Liverpool is a beautiful city, its also a University city having around 4 universities. A lot if people move to Liverpool from around the country for university and stay here because they fall in love with the city. Liverpool is most definitely the friendliest city in the UK. The people really go out of their way to make people feel welcome. Interesting enough the Liver building clock faces are the biggest clock faces in the UK even being bigger than the Elizabeth towers big ben clock faces. The city also has an amazing underground/rapid transit system (Merseyrail) which is larger than than all other cities outside of London.
@@g4viscon I was just about to mention the Liver Building clock faces but you beat me to it. Defo the friendliest city and you are so right about people coming here to study and then deciding to live here because they love the place so much.
@@g4viscon you should write that as a main comment at the top of the page it deserves more views than just being an answer in the comments you sound intelligent and knowledgeable about the city
@@gazriley624 Thanks. I will do that :)
Oh Tyler, we live on an island and a fairly small one at that, so we're never really that far from the sea! Hence, cities by the water! also, they're not necessarily clocktowers but town hall's! York is amazing, you have to go! I sort of agree with this list, but they didn't show the towns off very well, odd choice of views and pictures!
There's a couple of things to take into account.
One - we're an island, you're never far from water.
Two - most settlements are historically based at the mouths of rivers or at river crossings.
Three - historically water was the source of wealth and trade.
Four - the industrial revolution just built on that, they dredged the rivers for larger ships and built canals to cheaply transport goods, before there were trains.
Five - every country in the British Empire had to trade their goods through the cities of the UK, so ports were a source of wealth.
Six - cities that did well were those were agricultural people can move to for work and wealth.
Seven - rich cities could afford great architecture and great works, which made them nicer to live in.
Three of the cities that I love are on this list. Plymouth because I was born there and part of my huge family still lives there. It's renowned for having Sir Francis Drake being born there especially with his involvement in the war against Spain and the Armada in 1588 under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. After that momentous event he was also the Mayor of Plymouth and is renowned for being the commander of the Golden Hind which was the second ship to circumnavigate the globe....so, all in all, he was quite a busy bloke throughout his lifetime, wasn't he?
By the way, speaking of famous people I'm wondering why this narrator even mentioned Sean Bean when he was talking about Plymouth because Sean Bean was born and raised in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire which is even further away from Plymouth than Manchester is, furthermore it's nowhere near any coastline and is completely landlocked.
Then of course there's the Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers travelling between Plymouth and the 'New World' in 1620....I often think that my ancestors might've seen that ship off on its journey across the Atlantic and used their dulcet voices to express their true feelings towards those travellers using the classic phrase of, " Okay, now f*ck off and don't come back you religious nutters!...." or something similar.
Manchester is my next favourite city because I lived there from the age of 6 after we moved up to that part of the northwest of England so I didn't have much of a choice about things at that age, did I? I've also lived in different suburbs of Manchester including Levenshulme, Hulme, Cheetham and Moss Side as well as worked in City Centre Manchester so I know how great the nightlife is and has always been there. They also have a fantastic China Town within walking distance of the City Centre where you can visit some great restaurants, cultural centres and supermarkets and purchase authentic Chinese utensils and really unusual foodstuffs.
Liverpool is my third favourite city on this list of his and is great for the nightlife as well and also because of Aintree racecourse which is where the Grand National is run every year and where I visited on that particular Saturday many years ago. Despite the bad reputation that it has amongst a lot of us who live outside of that city for it being a den of thieves it isn't really because most Liverpudlians are very nice, kind, hardworking and very friendly people and they can take a joke whenever any of the rest of us Brits take it upon ourselves to take the p!ss out of them for that completely unfounded stereotypical reputation that we have of them.
Oxford was an old city before your country was even discovered. Centuries ago ordinary people did not own clocks or watches so each town had a large clock placed on a tower so it could be seen at a distance. The chimes told the citizens when to start work and when to end as well as keep track of the time of day. To call Oxford or Cambridg’school’ or a ‘college’ grates on the ears of all who know them as famous universities. American education seems to be very limited if the names of famous cities are unknown along with a variety of other supposedly basic facts. In Canada all this is taught in school.
Good to see my home city York on the list. Lots of history in York having been an important place for both Vikings and Romans. The Roman bar walls that encircle large parts of the city are famous as are the number of museums.
I'm going to dispute London as a city. Of course you have the square mile or City of London and the City of Westminster but surely it's London Town.
love york was just there 2 weeks ago
@@davidkyle1439 Best Station pub..........In the world!
@@johnp8131 Kew Station or Durham Station have the best Train station pubs in UK, I think!
Really enjoyed your reactions (as always) it says hardly anything about the cities though! They must have also polled newborn babies who have never heard of London…….
My faves on the list are Liverpool, York and London. Have been to all except Cambridge.
Manchester - that water looks like Salford Quays. It’s an old industrial site. Yes, there’s a ship canal as well. SQ is where the BBC moved to, or at least tried to. What’s disturbing when you walk along the Quays is that the water is dark grey and there’s lots of schools of giant dark grey fish in it, too. So, the water appears to undulate and swish about when there’s no wind about. In future, Nessie will probably be rumoured to be in SQ.
All the major channels including the BBC have studios at Salford Quays we have been several times to recordings for TV shows
Tyler Im so proud that my city Cambridge was on the list, I love living there with all the history, architecture, punting boats on the river. The universities. It has everything you need, great shopping centre and restaurants. It is multi cultural and a very popular place especially for tourists.
Sounds like an amazing place
Hi there. With York being in the number two spot, I thought I would point you in the direction on You Tube of a woman called Yorkshire Peach. Lisa is based in York, is American and has lived in the city with her English husband for about eight years. Her observations of quirky and strange differences between the US and the UK are so funny.
Cambridge ( fenbog poly), is like oxford, the university has 31 colleges with in the university, e.g. All souls, caius, Jesus etc.
Oxford has 39 colleges. Both universities date back 1000 years
Both have great Boozers too. Better pubcrawl in Cambridge though. And yes, I have been to both.
Compliments to you for creating an interesting reaction, as always, because the video itself was really weird. 😄 some of the things they were saying made absolutely no sense.
I’ve lived in Cardiff for hmm, let’s just say a long time and I didn’t even recognise the thing we were known for!
Yeah, I'm from Manchester and the airport while big is far from "world-renowned" and the city is more well known for its football and music than its airport. Also "the city where almost everyone wants to ride porsche", wtf does that mean? Pretty sure he also used some stock footage of Manchester in the USA.
Ha so true because I think there’s a Cardiff in California too.
Of course Manchester is most known for music and football!! 😄
The clock you spotted in Edinburgh is on a five star hotel by the main train station. It runs 3 minutes fast every day (except for our new year celebrations), so people can get to their train on time.
Edinburgh is not nearly as old as York or London, so not as historical either, in spite of appearances. But it’s still ancient by modern standards and is certainly a beautiful city.
Till the 1963 the tallest building in London was St.Pauls cathedral 364 ft.
Height restrictions were removed in the 60s.
Don't miss Roman bathed and Georgian pump roomed Bath.
Newcastle is an industrial city with a history in shipbuilding. Its undergone a huge regeneration
We have several Newcastles, on tyne, under lyme.
Litt, the new castle.
Oxford university for instance has has new college built in 1379. Well it was new when built. Still has medieval walls and a tiny medieval pub next door
Was the guy who made this video on drugs? Oxford know for juggling!?
The part of Portsmouth that Tyler said looks like it was left old is actually known as Old Portsmouth.
A few facts about Portsmouth.
It is one of very few cities to have 2 cathedrals, it also has the cathedral that is closest to the sea at about 250 metres from the water (and also is in Old Portsmouth).
It was the birthplace of the author Charles Dickens, the actor Peter Sellers and the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as well as loads of other famous people.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle moved to Portsmouth and worked as a doctor, and wrote several Sherlock Holmes books whilst living in the city. He was also the first goalkeeper for the Portsmouth Amateur Football Club, before they became a professional football club.
It is the home of The Royal Navy.
HMS Victory is in dry dock in the Historic Dockyard (the part that the public has access to with the museums in it. The Victory is actually still a commissioned ship in the Navy.
The Mary Rose, Henry 8th's flagship sank off the coast of Portsmouth, was mostly recovered and is in the Mary Rose museum in the Historic Dockyard.
The dockyard also houses HMS Warrior, the world's first iron clad warship which was 3 times the size of most warships at the time, and her guns have never been fired in anger.
I am surprised we didn’t see Birmingham on that list it one of the top city’s but as someone from the uk I would say Brighton is nice to go to the beach but London is a different experience I have never been hopefully going soon, but what I hear it from friends. It’s a crazy experience, but it’s also so nice I couldn’t live there it would be to crazy for me I will stick to my fairly big city
So true. Birmingham is like a second London.
@@PythonPlusPlus Only if you like concrete.
Birmingham is not famous for being beautiful. In fact, given that its the UKs second city in area and population, its not really one of the well known core cities.
‘Most loved cities’ not pretty big cities 😂
Think of it this way, the uk has a major city every 40miles and often closer than that.
Eg. Coventry and Birmingham, Wolverhampton. Nottingham and Derby..Liverpool and Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Maybe England does but the UK doesn't.