Went to college in Cirencester and spent a lot of time around people who live in the places mentioned on the list. One lad mentioned his father owning 5 BMWs and impromptu weekend trips to Venice like they were the most normal things in the world.
@@TurdtownsI'll explain, after Mater&Pater pay to give you public school contacts, they use their contacts to get you a well paying job exploiting the plebs. You then claim you worked hard to get where you are. It's not what you know, but who you know.
The house in your thumbnail used to be owned by my grandparents - I was very lucky to have spent childhood Christmases in such a gorgeous setting. They bought it before the M4 was constructed & back then the Cotswolds was mud & farmers rather than Farrow & Ball.
I left Burford school in 1975; went away to university; and didn't visit for some years. The biggest change, which ruined it for me, is the amount of traffic. It's gone from moderately busy to horrendous!
You mentioned Broadway. 30 years ago the high street had shops that regular people might use such as banks,butchers,bakeries and a post office .Now it is full of chi-chi boutiquey, art galleries and places selling rich, country ,lifestyle stuff.
Good one 'squire. A complete flip on your norm, yet retained your sarcasm, satire and humour. With facts and reality included, for free. This pointless human approves, for what it is worth. Thank you.
An excellent summation from someone who has lived in the Cotswolds for 37 years. The house prices are skewed by the ex council houses and new build estates which, yes, even the Cotswolds has. That's the only reason Burford is number one.
Great work man it’s nice to see the other end of the spectrum. Especially because most of the places people would purposefully visit are these types of beautiful towns and villages which abound South West and South East England
I only came across this channel the other day but what a gem! Your quirky comments fit perfectly and has me in stitches. We’ll done on a great channel 👍
Blockley? Unspoiled? That cafe and shop used to be a Cotswold stone toilet block. All around, one can see where people cashed in and put mini housing estates on their front gardens! And... oh, BOY, you should've been there in the 60s and 70s! 4 pubs. 2 banks open full time. A post office/general store plus two other large convenience stores. 2 butchers, a hardware store, toy/sweet shop with newsagent and a chemist... a couple of cobblers, 2 independent greengrocers and a couple of bakeries. Furthermore, two hairdressers and a barber! The place was alive! These days, it's a fossilised themepark filled with god knows who doing who knows what but only at the weekends. Such a lack of facilities that on that score, it's qualify as a TurdTown.
Interesting to look at the financial history of most houses currently for sale in the Cotswolds. Whatever you bought in the late 90's for 200K will sell for close to 1M today. There's a house for sale in Blockley on one of the mini housing estates you refer to, with a common garden, swimming pool and tennis court (1K per month for maintenance?). I can't escape the feeling the whole village is sh*g hotel for the rich, just like you suggest. And let's not forget barn conversions. Plaster your pig stable, fit a few windows, kitchen and bathroom, and call it a medieval house.
You, my friend, are an absolute legend with your one liners and quips! Keep up the good work, don't ever let Turdtowns die. If you ever do Poshtowns in Devon, I could probably give you number 1 already...
Absolutely brilliant ! your shows just get better and better,I live in a small Cotswold town called Nailsworth and work in Cirencester as a delivery driver, so all these towns are familiar to me. Keep up the good work and the banter.😊
Hilarious commentary in this episode, i needed a good laugh thank you, where i live is a small hamlet in Cornwall and seeing this busy towns , makes me happy to be here. Don't care how posh the houses are, they are welcome to there polished turd towns.
On 16:36 just as you was saying about people desperately trying to park their cars, sure enough we see such an example from the drone shot and he/she had to pull back out because they struggle to parallel park thus holding all the traffic up!
I drove through nearly all of these towns on my way to Glastonbury festival (Shepton Mallet is a turd) last month to avoid the M5. I've actually been to all the places mentioned as a "tourist". A couple of towns you didn't mention were Shipston on Stour & Winchcombe, they seemed pretty posh when I visited.
That situation in Burford with the parking reminds me of Stockbridge in Hampshire... remember to do a posh towns for Hants, there's definitely enough content for both posh and turd...
I live in Painswick (although a I do rent a tiny little flat) but I’m surprised Painswick didn’t get a mention. It’s always rammed with tourists and impossible to find a place to park. Despite this, it is a very attractive area tow with over 1500 residents and loads of expensive gaffs.
Painswick is very expensive too. Could have made the list at the expense of Tetbury. Tetbury is the only exception I made because I didn’t want the list to be a bunch of places that all look the same.
@@Turdtowns this is true, once you’ve seen a couple… they all kind of look similar. Keep up the good work. I love your videos. Herefordshire would be easy pickings for you with places like Leominster and Bromyard 😉
@@tommyball1863I wa supposed to do Herefordshire. I’m just struggling to come up with more than three places. I don’t think it would make a very good video.
@@Turdtowns yeah, Herefordshire could be a struggle but my suggestions would be; Ross on Wye, Bromyard (which is really on its arse), Ledbury, Leominster and even Hereford itself, the latter does have some sketchy areas.
I lived nearby there in the tiny village of Sheepscombe (population only ~300) for 3 years in the 1970s. He probably should have pointed out that even in the era when Rome ruled Britain, the Cotwolds were extremely posh. There were more large Roman villas in the Cotswolds than anywhere else in the UK. Cirencester was the second most important Roman city, behind only London.
I don't remember how i found your youtube channel but i love watching this stuff, i've watched nearly all your videos now, bro it's just what i needed and actual real human behing a camera.
I grew up in a village next to Broadway and went to school in Chipping Campden. In the late 90’s/early 2000’s Moreton in Marsh was considered the rough town in the area 🤣 Also, Stow on the Wold was Edgar Wright’s first choice to film Hot Fuzz but they council declined because they didn’t want the final shoot out scene to be filmed in the town square
I also went to chipping campden school(1 year ago) and grew up in a town next to broadway. I can assure you Moreton in Marsh is still considered to be the rough town in the area ... some things never change haha!
What an eye opener. What's become apparent in the last few years during the cost of living crisis, is there is an opposite end to the scale and there seems to be an abundance of extremely wealthy people about. How do so many people make such vast amounts of money. My opinion is that if someone is making millions, then they are over charging for their service and ripping people off.
A lot of these people probably had money in the family. And imagine your family owning multiple houses in these towns. You would be laughing all the way to the bank without actually doing much do it.
@Turdtowns that's a lot of wealthy families. I live in the Midlands and for every 10 poor or average family just making ends meat, there seems to be at least 1 extremely wealthy person, driving around in their super car and extending their 1 million home. I've never seen so many wealthy people.
Live on the Gloucestershire/Warwick shire border so know all these towns except Tetbury very well as most are in the North Cotswolds. Few observations Stow-On-The-Wold - has huge traffic issues and is an absolute nightmare to drive through as it has major roads criss crossing through it. Locals use back roads to avoid this, would never live there. Moreton-In-Marsh - is actually a lovely place and more attractive than the video portrays. The market on Tuesdays is NOT worth a visit and is NOT large at all. Blockley - is a strange place. A village of second homes mainly it lacks any community atmosphere whenever I’ve visited and leaves me cold, Ilmington a Cotswold village in Warwickshire is far prettier and charming. Chipping Campden - Stunning town, my friend lives on the high street and The Volunteer Curry House there does delicious Indian food and the staff are great. Broadway should not be an honourable mention but should be on your list!! It’s beautiful especially the top half of the high street, it’s much nicer than Burford, which although has a lovely high street is constantly jammed up with traffic. Bourton On The Water - Sorry just too many tourists make it a place I could never live.
As a local, I can tell you that these house prices have all happened within the last decade or so, its depressing as it means I have no way to stay close to my home if I want my own house.
This exercise was great fun and brought back memories of my own childhood in the not unposh part of the Cotwolds. I compiled a list first as best guess; then checked against yours. This is what I thought. Hon mention Broadway 1. Chipping Campden, 2. Burford; 3. Winchcombe; 4. Tetbury; 5. Fairford; 6. Nailsworth; 7. Wotton under Edge; 8. Lechlade. A few comments. I once knew somebody who rented a flat in Burford. It was tiny. Most of the houses are too small for habitation. You have to be a slow moving traffic lover to live in these places! The crime rate in Blockley looks to be high
@@ThatGuyRBY How is that relevant? Gloucester is not in the Cotswolds. I live in Cheltenham and NEVER go to Gloucester. Some villages in the Cotswolds are 25 miles from Gloucester.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Interesting comment. I bet you're devastated the county is called Gloucestershire and not Cheltenhamshire.....and for the record Cheltenham is far rougher than Gloucester! Hesters Way....no thanks!!
@@ThatGuyRBY Look at the property prices in Gloucester and then look in Cheltenham. There is a vast difference. I think that answers your silly comment.
Im surprised you didn't mention Bradford on Avon. Depending on what map of the Cotswolds you use it just dips into the Southern most end. Worth a visit for sure.
Glad to see you calling out the car parks that often blight the centre of beautiful market towns. Surely people can park on the edge and walk for five minutes instead.
If you want to eat in Stow there is a lovely small cafe called The Old Bakery. Highly recommend the homemade cream tea and their exceptional rich hot chocolate made with chocolate and cream! Always a favourite to swing by when in the area 😁
I’ve visited the Cotswolds many times. There’s some lovely places and the people might not be that welcoming in some of the locations but the scenery is great!
I love Burford. Only been here once, but it’s got about 6 or 8 pubs. A curry house and decent shops. Plus it’s pretty as fuck. Each to their own I guess 😅
You should request people make a pot of tea and cucumber sandwiches (no crusts) before watching this episode. Never heard of some of these towns and probably will never go there either. Interesting though.
Im in the south of the cotswolds and i can confirm most of the houses in the village high street are owned by people from London now.Anyone born or brought up here has to live in an ex council estate or an ex MOD house.
3:40, I live here and the school kids do drink. In fact, I am one of those kids and the kids are menaces. Bricks through windows, alcoholic kids and everything. Tourists are also a massive issue to and some areas are actually pretty bad; there's no jobs either and you are paying to live in a place that looks nice really. Everywhere here is dominated by rich old people
Just spent a few days in the Cotswolds. Love it there. However the week before we were in Wales. You have to visit Port Talbot, utter toilet. Or Barmouth the dullest seaside town, even worse than Weston Super Meh. Oh and the Gypsys Horse people in Stow, I did not get the impression from locals that anybody welcomes them, all the pubs and shops put up shutters and flee.
i thought Painswick might be somewhere in there but checking the map I see it's maybe not quite in the Cotswold area as it's more towards Stroud (although the houses are all build out of the lovely golden Cotswold stone)
Ahhh The Cotswolds. Where a children's home in the center of the lakes was closed due to ill treated and abused children. The security guard told me they found hidden letters that were intended for their parents back home documenting the abuse they suffered but obviously those letters were stashed away. Action for children and The Bruderhorf community were the ones that ran it most time. Just to let you know 😊
@@valeriedavidson2785 No but it is most deceitful to portray somewhere to be so beautiful, outstanding and community driven with such dark pasts almost on their doorsteps.. I prefer to let people know my personal dealings with these areas as this is social media where we're allowed to say these things. Not like people don't have the right to know either... Do your research i'm not lying. :)
@@letteringtypes You would probably be able to find a dark past in most places in Britain. You have to leave that behind and as I said, it is nothing to do with the beauty of the area.
People have a right to know. These things shouldn't be shunned and ignored until forgotten. I'm not denying it's a beautiful place just spreading some truths before it's shoved under the rug like so many other child abusive and pedophile acts. @@valeriedavidson2785
But nearly all the Cotswold villages are in Gloucestershire. Tetbury is very expensive and not far from the M4 - ( Prince Charles home). There is only a very small part of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire. I live in nearby Cheltenham and know all of them.
@@lawrencelimburger9160there’s a very good chance of that. I could do Cumbria and Northumberland on the same trip. Feel free to email me any highlights! Be very helpful and I shall be greatful.
I grew up in Cirencester, the worst thing about it was the RAG students. Spending daddy's money and driving around in old land rovers with RAG stickers on the back. Generally be rude and obnoxious.
Have you covered plymouth? I went recently, never been, and thought as it appears to be a major landmark was shocked to be greeted with derelict buildings that once said "employment agency", then few chain shops in between empty "to let" shop spaces. whole place looks and feels unaccommodating and couldnt be there more than 1 hour before I have to leave, a true dump!
Ayy? Chippenham is classed as Cotswolds - news to me, was born there, and have spent collectively 10 plus years there. Damn, all that time and I could have used "I live in the Cotswolds as a chat up line"
I spend a fair bit of time out Tetbury, beautiful gaff where my parents retired too👌🏻Decent shout out for the Gumstool Hill as well, that is one steep fucker! Class episode and quite a turn up from the case study on Welsh valley shitholes😂🤦🏻
Surprised you missed out Broadway. I work in Cirencester. There are some rough-arse parts I can tell you. Some houses have outdoor swimming pools and only one butler!
lol yeah I’ve lived in Cirencester my whole life and am just a middle class guy in a generic semi detached. But the most rough parts of ciren are normal for most of the UK.
The amount of left wing resentful 'kids' in these comments is so depressing. If you're unhappy with your situation then change it, nobody else is going to do it for you.
I’m old enough to remember when what you suggest was a realistic option in this country; I did it myself. I can assure you that those days are long gone.
Best option nowadays is to literally do it yourself. Start your own business and sell to the world. Get into trade and be a sole trader. Trying to get employed now is too difficult, chances are extremely slim. You have to maximise your skill or learn some valuable skills you can sell. And sell to the rest of the world not your neighbours. Being able to afford a house on bar work for the rest of your life just isn't possible. Working at Iceland full time doesn't even afford you a house either. Self employment is the way forward and use AI as much as you can to make your life easier. It's sad but that's just how it is
@@MonsterJuiced The key is to build something you can sell when you want to retire. I know loads of self employed folk who do really well, but when they want to stop, so does their money flow. I built a company (industrial supply chain) which though only small, could carry on without me. I sold it to my employees for enough to give me a very comfy retirement.
I stayed in the cotswalds last week in an Airbnb. It was in chipping Norton. The lane down the back had a huge mansion and I wondered who lived there. Every day during the week a helicopter would take off and fly directly over our Airbnb and fly to Central London. I used to watch it on flight radar 24. On the Saturday before we left I saw the same helicopter take off from the mansion, fly over our Airbnb and land at Oxford Airport a few minutes later. A plane then took off a few minutes later and went to the USA. No idea who lives there. Probably a royal or maybe an MP?
If you research your birth town, you'll find most places in the UK looked like this. Most these towns aren't even that old - sure some buildings may be original - yet many buildings will be recreations of architectural eras. Posh = old money/established families.
Damn it's unfortunate, all these places look so pretty but are so clogged up with cars it's hard to appreciate the historic beauty. I guess that's why I like places like York and Cambridge more, the historic city centers there are mostly car free, a lot calmer and prettier imo
Yup it certainly ruins the atmosphere. Not sure why they can’t just build a giant car park on the outskirts and make the squares car free. I guess people are too lazy.
Funny stuff indeed! So glad my Cotswolds town didn't make the mix, good old Chippy (Chipping Norton) - yep, that famed town of "The Chipping Norton Set", except nobody rich actually lives _in_ the town, they all live in the countryside around it. A little Labour town in a sea of Tory blue, down to earth, a little bit grubby around the edges, but as real as it gets. Still a working town ... just about. Sadly, time is taking its toll on the town - it's becoming more gentrified, slowly but surely. Still not posh - god help us if it does become that - but it looks like it may go that way. Once the cheapest of towns in the Cotswolds to buy a house, right on the very edge - but lots of development is starting to ruin it. Such is life.
Unsuprisingling none of these towns have a Wetherspoons. Only Cirencester has a Waitrose which is a but more surprising. Maybe these people are so posh they even Waitrose isn't good enough for them. Moreton in Marsh is the only town on this list with a railway station but all but Burford did once have a railway station.
Yea population. It also had over one million average. Not sure why I can’t stand the place. Was forced to go there all the time as a kid. All I remember is one pub and some vicious peacocks 😂
The crazy thing is, if you look up the index of multiple depravation, a lot of these places are pretty much average, especially the cotswolds constituancy itself. The neighboring constituancy of Tewkesbury is actually less deprived, despite Tewkesbury itself being a bit of a dive. I guess all the Cotswold dwellers spend all their money on housing so they can't afford anything else...
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Went to college in Cirencester and spent a lot of time around people who live in the places mentioned on the list. One lad mentioned his father owning 5 BMWs and impromptu weekend trips to Venice like they were the most normal things in the world.
I’d love to know how many of these people in these towns are self made.
@@TurdtownsI'll explain, after Mater&Pater pay to give you public school contacts, they use their contacts to get you a well paying job exploiting the plebs.
You then claim you worked hard to get where you are.
It's not what you know, but who you know.
@@Turdtowns Not many - I've lived near Campden for 37 years
@@Turdtowns it’s 7 mate … 7
@@Turdtowns I live in Chipping Campden and I would say most people here are self-made.
'i doubt they've ever had to go two's on a cigarette' absolutely killed me. Love your humour!
Thanks Vinny means a lot!
Yeah that was funny 😂
"Like the new King himself, I'm all ears"
Lines like this are what make this one of the most watchable channels on YT!
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!
Instead of 'Posh' Towns,,,,,you could have called it 'Polished Turd Towns' ;)
Spot on. Tetbury is full of inbreads
Or, "you can't polish a turdtown" but you can throw glitter on it category .......
@@uncleandross4310definitely lol
The house in your thumbnail used to be owned by my grandparents - I was very lucky to have spent childhood Christmases in such a gorgeous setting. They bought it before the M4 was constructed & back then the Cotswolds was mud & farmers rather than Farrow & Ball.
I left Burford school in 1975; went away to university; and didn't visit for some years. The biggest change, which ruined it for me, is the amount of traffic. It's gone from moderately busy to horrendous!
You mentioned Broadway. 30 years ago the high street had shops that regular people might use such as banks,butchers,bakeries and a post office .Now it is full of chi-chi boutiquey, art galleries and places selling rich, country ,lifestyle stuff.
Good one 'squire. A complete flip on your norm, yet retained your sarcasm, satire and humour.
With facts and reality included, for free.
This pointless human approves, for what it is worth.
Thank you.
An excellent summation from someone who has lived in the Cotswolds for 37 years. The house prices are skewed by the ex council houses and new build estates which, yes, even the Cotswolds has. That's the only reason Burford is number one.
Great work man it’s nice to see the other end of the spectrum. Especially because most of the places people would purposefully visit are these types of beautiful towns and villages which abound South West and South East England
Nice, thanks for dropping it. Must be nice to go somewhere in summer where the houses are worth £4m.
Big up, my man, the richest resident in Blockley, barrelling through on his tractor.
Safe in the knowledge he owns all of the 347 surrounding acres.👍
Hahaha yup he looked like he didn’t give a single turd 😂
I only came across this channel the other day but what a gem! Your quirky comments fit perfectly and has me in stitches. We’ll done on a great channel 👍
Burford is the town Clarkson visited in an old top gear episode where he tested the F150 pickup truck. Because the towns close to his house.
Yeah he and Harry Metcalfe from Harry's Garage live just outside of Burford
"even the local gym is called James" took a detour around the village before getting to me but man that was a good one LOL
Blockley? Unspoiled? That cafe and shop used to be a Cotswold stone toilet block.
All around, one can see where people cashed in and put mini housing estates on their front gardens! And... oh, BOY, you should've been there in the 60s and 70s! 4 pubs. 2 banks open full time. A post office/general store plus two other large convenience stores. 2 butchers, a hardware store, toy/sweet shop with newsagent and a chemist... a couple of cobblers, 2 independent greengrocers and a couple of bakeries.
Furthermore, two hairdressers and a barber!
The place was alive!
These days, it's a fossilised themepark filled with god knows who doing who knows what but only at the weekends.
Such a lack of facilities that on that score, it's qualify as a TurdTown.
Yea I’m guessing it was the area by the church? It’s still expensive though so it counts for this list.
@@Turdtowns (I know, I just wanted to have a rant about what was a wonderful place to live)
@@jpofgwynedd3878the place itself looks incredible but it’s cut off with no infrastructure. I can see how it would have been a 10/10 back in the dya
Interesting to look at the financial history of most houses currently for sale in the Cotswolds. Whatever you bought in the late 90's for 200K will sell for close to 1M today.
There's a house for sale in Blockley on one of the mini housing estates you refer to, with a common garden, swimming pool and tennis court (1K per month for maintenance?). I can't escape the feeling the whole village is sh*g hotel for the rich, just like you suggest.
And let's not forget barn conversions. Plaster your pig stable, fit a few windows, kitchen and bathroom, and call it a medieval house.
@@jacquesmertens3369 it’s all essentially just dumb luck. I don’t know how anyone can think they are above other people when they just got lucky.
Man, I love those places. My heart's desire.
A jolly good show, old chum!
You, my friend, are an absolute legend with your one liners and quips! Keep up the good work, don't ever let Turdtowns die.
If you ever do Poshtowns in Devon, I could probably give you number 1 already...
Salcombe?
@Turdtowns Sidmouth I'd suggest but Salcombe will be up there
Absolutely brilliant ! your shows just get better and better,I live in a small Cotswold town called Nailsworth and work in Cirencester as a delivery driver, so all these towns are familiar to me.
Keep up the good work and the banter.😊
I remember visiting Nailsworth and my car struggling to get up the hills.
Used to live there for a decade or so!
Ha Nailsworth is a Turd town no doubt in that son.
How in the world did you ever afford to live there on a delivery driver wage?
@@samthemadman5000Ever heard of Forest Green?
These are excellent...... more please.....!!
“Trained to swoop and attack poor people as they enter” fucking gold 😂😂
Excellent and humorous as always! Looking to visit Worcester in a few months. May get out and visit a few of these spots. 🙂
I love the sense of humor !
Hilarious commentary in this episode, i needed a good laugh thank you, where i live is a small hamlet in Cornwall and seeing this busy towns , makes me happy to be here.
Don't care how posh the houses are, they are welcome to there polished turd towns.
Your narration is actually funny and very witty 👏🏻 most channels are cringe hah.
Also I love Stow because the coffee shops there are awesome
On 16:36 just as you was saying about people desperately trying to park their cars, sure enough we see such an example from the drone shot and he/she had to pull back out because they struggle to parallel park thus holding all the traffic up!
Yea I saw that so many times. May as well not be a space
I drove through nearly all of these towns on my way to Glastonbury festival (Shepton Mallet is a turd) last month to avoid the M5. I've actually been to all the places mentioned as a "tourist". A couple of towns you didn't mention were Shipston on Stour & Winchcombe, they seemed pretty posh when I visited.
Yup Shepton ain’t great I have to go there often
That situation in Burford with the parking reminds me of Stockbridge in Hampshire... remember to do a posh towns for Hants, there's definitely enough content for both posh and turd...
We always park in Burford garden centre and walk down.
Really informative,brilliant.
I live in Painswick (although a I do rent a tiny little flat) but I’m surprised Painswick didn’t get a mention. It’s always rammed with tourists and impossible to find a place to park. Despite this, it is a very attractive area tow with over 1500 residents and loads of expensive gaffs.
Painswick is very expensive too. Could have made the list at the expense of Tetbury. Tetbury is the only exception I made because I didn’t want the list to be a bunch of places that all look the same.
@@Turdtowns this is true, once you’ve seen a couple… they all kind of look similar. Keep up the good work. I love your videos. Herefordshire would be easy pickings for you with places like Leominster and Bromyard 😉
@@tommyball1863I wa supposed to do Herefordshire. I’m just struggling to come up with more than three places. I don’t think it would make a very good video.
@@Turdtowns yeah, Herefordshire could be a struggle but my suggestions would be; Ross on Wye, Bromyard (which is really on its arse), Ledbury, Leominster and even Hereford itself, the latter does have some sketchy areas.
I lived nearby there in the tiny village of Sheepscombe (population only ~300) for 3 years in the 1970s.
He probably should have pointed out that even in the era when Rome ruled Britain, the Cotwolds were extremely posh.
There were more large Roman villas in the Cotswolds than anywhere else in the UK.
Cirencester was the second most important Roman city, behind only London.
“Gym called James!” Proper funny!
Very good episode! Shame Banbury didn't quite make it (it does skirt the Cotswolds)..
Loving the video's ❤ you really make us laugh. Thank you!
I don't remember how i found your youtube channel but i love watching this stuff, i've watched nearly all your videos now, bro it's just what i needed and actual real human behing a camera.
Well done, nice list! I agree with your rankings. BTW - I live in one of these towns... Tetbury.
I grew up in a village next to Broadway and went to school in Chipping Campden. In the late 90’s/early 2000’s Moreton in Marsh was considered the rough town in the area 🤣
Also, Stow on the Wold was Edgar Wright’s first choice to film Hot Fuzz but they council declined because they didn’t want the final shoot out scene to be filmed in the town square
I also went to chipping campden school(1 year ago) and grew up in a town next to broadway. I can assure you Moreton in Marsh is still considered to be the rough town in the area ... some things never change haha!
@@OGPodcastClipsOh really? In what sense is it considered rough?
A wild Slapnuts appears ❤ Good to see you branching out and enjoying all the content.
What an eye opener. What's become apparent in the last few years during the cost of living crisis, is there is an opposite end to the scale and there seems to be an abundance of extremely wealthy people about.
How do so many people make such vast amounts of money.
My opinion is that if someone is making millions, then they are over charging for their service and ripping people off.
A lot of these people probably had money in the family. And imagine your family owning multiple houses in these towns. You would be laughing all the way to the bank without actually doing much do it.
@Turdtowns that's a lot of wealthy families.
I live in the Midlands and for every 10 poor or average family just making ends meat, there seems to be at least 1 extremely wealthy person, driving around in their super car and extending their 1 million home. I've never seen so many wealthy people.
Live on the Gloucestershire/Warwick shire border so know all these towns except Tetbury very well as most are in the North Cotswolds.
Few observations
Stow-On-The-Wold - has huge traffic issues and is an absolute nightmare to drive through as it has major roads criss crossing through it. Locals use back roads to avoid this, would never live there.
Moreton-In-Marsh - is actually a lovely place and more attractive than the video portrays. The market on Tuesdays is NOT worth a visit and is NOT large at all.
Blockley - is a strange place. A village of second homes mainly it lacks any community atmosphere whenever I’ve visited and leaves me cold, Ilmington a Cotswold village in Warwickshire is far prettier and charming.
Chipping Campden - Stunning town, my friend lives on the high street and The Volunteer Curry House there does delicious Indian food and the staff are great.
Broadway should not be an honourable mention but should be on your list!! It’s beautiful especially the top half of the high street, it’s much nicer than Burford, which although has a lovely high street is constantly jammed up with traffic.
Bourton On The Water - Sorry just too many tourists make it a place I could never live.
Bourton on the Water is the crack den of the Cotswolds don't you know!!
I really enjoy these PoshTowns segments. I'm not from the UK. Growing up I used to think all of it looked like these places.
As a local, I can tell you that these house prices have all happened within the last decade or so, its depressing as it means I have no way to stay close to my home if I want my own house.
Went to every single one of these places as a kid.....when going to places by car on a Sunday was special (in the 70's- early 80's)
This exercise was great fun and brought back memories of my own childhood in the not unposh part of the Cotwolds. I compiled a list first as best guess; then checked against yours. This is what I thought. Hon mention Broadway 1. Chipping Campden, 2. Burford; 3. Winchcombe; 4. Tetbury; 5. Fairford; 6. Nailsworth; 7. Wotton under Edge; 8. Lechlade. A few comments. I once knew somebody who rented a flat in Burford. It was tiny. Most of the houses are too small for habitation. You have to be a slow moving traffic lover to live in these places! The crime rate in Blockley looks to be high
Classic affluent English market towns. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of rolling fields which always seem to have FA in them. (The odd cow perhaps)
Nine out of ten of these places are in Gloucestershire although you always get other counties mentioned. A beautiful area.
Yep, and then you get to Gloucester itself....
@@ThatGuyRBY How is that relevant?
Gloucester is not in the Cotswolds. I live in Cheltenham and NEVER go to Gloucester. Some villages in the Cotswolds are 25 miles from Gloucester.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Interesting comment. I bet you're devastated the county is called Gloucestershire and not Cheltenhamshire.....and for the record Cheltenham is far rougher than Gloucester! Hesters Way....no thanks!!
@@jimmymac8993 Don't be stupid. All towns have poorer areas. Even Bath. Get real!!
@@ThatGuyRBY Look at the property prices in Gloucester and then look in Cheltenham. There is a vast difference. I think that answers your silly comment.
Loved this video and your so finny 😂. Just subscribed thanks
Im surprised you didn't mention Bradford on Avon. Depending on what map of the Cotswolds you use it just dips into the Southern most end. Worth a visit for sure.
T, can you please do a feature on North Wales ?
Places like Rhyl, Llandudno, Flint, Pwllheli, Caernarfon .... these places are dog rough.
The Cotswolds are much prettier than North Wales.
@@valeriedavidson2785The sky is blue and, water is wet.
We always have one of the Oxfordshire cross country races at Cirencester and, needless to say, it’s beautiful
Please review salisbury - could be in this collection. Scratch the surface and ...
Excellent script this episode.
Thanks. Not easy making fun of people who have everything 😂😂
Glad to see you calling out the car parks that often blight the centre of beautiful market towns. Surely people can park on the edge and walk for five minutes instead.
Burford is only making the top of the list in terms of average price is because of London influence. Broadway for me anytime😅
Broadway should have been number 8 really. I find the two places pretty similar?
Asking for the William and going to the local James threw me 🤣🤣🤣
If you want to eat in Stow there is a lovely small cafe called The Old Bakery. Highly recommend the homemade cream tea and their exceptional rich hot chocolate made with chocolate and cream! Always a favourite to swing by when in the area 😁
I’ve visited the Cotswolds many times. There’s some lovely places and the people might not be that welcoming in some of the locations but the scenery is great!
Very well written, I really enjoyed some of the dry satire and take it the maker isn't a Tory fan, lol.
Neutral all parties are bad on this channel 😂
@@Turdtowns likewise, same here!
Beautiful, tiny houses which you can actually live in if you happen to be dwarf-sized.
Or don’t mind bashing your head every morning
I think you meant 'vertically challenged'
The Bird Centre at Moreton in Marsh is excellent should anyone be passing by !
Please do TurdTowns in Cheshire.
the video would be 3 days long
I love Burford. Only been here once, but it’s got about 6 or 8 pubs. A curry house and decent shops. Plus it’s pretty as fuck. Each to their own I guess 😅
Came for the Regional inequality, stayed for the overly inflated house prices. 😅
Would be interesting to see a video on the Turd towns of Surrey, stereotypically being a posher county
Me too. I expect most of them are gated communities private roads etc
@@Turdtowns Was just exploring on Google Maps the absolute size of The Manor in Weybridge as a gated community
First half of my honeymoon was in Burford. Second half was in Wapping. Both very nice. 😀
You should request people make a pot of tea and cucumber sandwiches (no crusts) before watching this episode.
Never heard of some of these towns and probably will never go there either. Interesting though.
Im in the south of the cotswolds and i can confirm most of the houses in the village high street are owned by people from London now.Anyone born or brought up here has to live in an ex council estate or an ex MOD house.
I think everyone wishes Londoners would fuck off back to London.
3:40, I live here and the school kids do drink. In fact, I am one of those kids and the kids are menaces. Bricks through windows, alcoholic kids and everything. Tourists are also a massive issue to and some areas are actually pretty bad; there's no jobs either and you are paying to live in a place that looks nice really. Everywhere here is dominated by rich old people
I guess drinking a the only thing for you guys to do
@@Turdtowns ye, there's absolutely nothing here that isn't for 90 year-old millionaires and wealthy tourists
@@brandonrhys21just don’t become one of them. That’s always the danger 😂
@@Turdtowns I don't think I am at risk of becoming a millionaire hahaha
@@brandonrhys21you never know. Nothing wrong with being self made though, that’s something to be proud of.
Bourton on the water smells a bit better than venice
Probably on account of the perfumery.
Just spent a few days in the Cotswolds. Love it there. However the week before we were in Wales. You have to visit Port Talbot, utter toilet. Or Barmouth the dullest seaside town, even worse than Weston Super Meh. Oh and the Gypsys Horse people in Stow, I did not get the impression from locals that anybody welcomes them, all the pubs and shops put up shutters and flee.
i thought Painswick might be somewhere in there but checking the map I see it's maybe not quite in the Cotswold area as it's more towards Stroud (although the houses are all build out of the lovely golden Cotswold stone)
Ahhh The Cotswolds. Where a children's home in the center of the lakes was closed due to ill treated and abused children. The security guard told me they found hidden letters that were intended for their parents back home documenting the abuse they suffered but obviously those letters were stashed away. Action for children and The Bruderhorf community were the ones that ran it most time. Just to let you know 😊
That is nothing to do with the beauty of the area.
@@valeriedavidson2785 No but it is most deceitful to portray somewhere to be so beautiful, outstanding and community driven with such dark pasts almost on their doorsteps.. I prefer to let people know my personal dealings with these areas as this is social media where we're allowed to say these things. Not like people don't have the right to know either... Do your research i'm not lying. :)
@@letteringtypes You would probably be able to find a dark past in most places in Britain. You have to leave that behind and as I said, it is nothing to do with the beauty of the area.
People have a right to know. These things shouldn't be shunned and ignored until forgotten. I'm not denying it's a beautiful place just spreading some truths before it's shoved under the rug like so many other child abusive and pedophile acts. @@valeriedavidson2785
Yes it is , their farts obviously do stink @@valeriedavidson2785
I think I would have put Chipping Campden above Burford. Oxfordshire is more expensive than Gloucestershire because it's closer to London.
Burford is right on the county line and nearly ALL of these beautiful places are in Gloucestershire.
But nearly all the Cotswold villages are in Gloucestershire. Tetbury is very expensive and not far from the M4 - ( Prince Charles home). There is only a very small part of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire. I live in nearby Cheltenham and know all of them.
Everyone likes the smell of their own brewed fart! XD
Keep up the good content, hope you dont loose any more drones!
Thanks I hope not got a big trip planned next month
@@Turdtowns
Best of luck! Come see Northumberland one time, Plenty o turd to be found!
@@lawrencelimburger9160there’s a very good chance of that. I could do Cumbria and Northumberland on the same trip. Feel free to email me any highlights! Be very helpful and I shall be greatful.
May you please do some videos on surrey
I grew up in Cirencester, the worst thing about it was the RAG students. Spending daddy's money and driving around in old land rovers with RAG stickers on the back. Generally be rude and obnoxious.
RAG?
@@Turdtowns royal agricultural college. I believe it's an university now.
What about the fact there’s hardly anywhere to park?
Have you covered plymouth? I went recently, never been, and thought as it appears to be a major landmark was shocked to be greeted with derelict buildings that once said "employment agency", then few chain shops in between empty "to let" shop spaces. whole place looks and feels unaccommodating and couldnt be there more than 1 hour before I have to leave, a true dump!
Too many carrot crunchers!😂
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I thought that was Somerset 😂
Honestly, the 'Cotswold Cricket Museum' sounds like the single most Tory place on the planet.
Ayy? Chippenham is classed as Cotswolds - news to me, was born there, and have spent collectively 10 plus years there. Damn, all that time and I could have used "I live in the Cotswolds as a chat up line"
I spend a fair bit of time out Tetbury, beautiful gaff where my parents retired too👌🏻Decent shout out for the Gumstool Hill as well, that is one steep fucker!
Class episode and quite a turn up from the case study on Welsh valley shitholes😂🤦🏻
Thanks. Punching up is definitely more difficult. See how the views go.
Surprised you missed out Broadway. I work in Cirencester. There are some rough-arse parts I can tell you. Some houses have outdoor swimming pools and only one butler!
lol yeah I’ve lived in Cirencester my whole life and am just a middle class guy in a generic semi detached. But the most rough parts of ciren are normal for most of the UK.
The amount of left wing resentful 'kids' in these comments is so depressing. If you're unhappy with your situation then change it, nobody else is going to do it for you.
They won’t. It’s much easier to assume everyone pays no tax and has expensive accountants than to work hard and make money. 😂
I’m old enough to remember when what you suggest was a realistic option in this country; I did it myself. I can assure you that those days are long gone.
Best option nowadays is to literally do it yourself. Start your own business and sell to the world. Get into trade and be a sole trader. Trying to get employed now is too difficult, chances are extremely slim. You have to maximise your skill or learn some valuable skills you can sell. And sell to the rest of the world not your neighbours. Being able to afford a house on bar work for the rest of your life just isn't possible. Working at Iceland full time doesn't even afford you a house either. Self employment is the way forward and use AI as much as you can to make your life easier. It's sad but that's just how it is
@@MonsterJuiced The key is to build something you can sell when you want to retire. I know loads of self employed folk who do really well, but when they want to stop, so does their money flow. I built a company (industrial supply chain) which though only small, could carry on without me. I sold it to my employees for enough to give me a very comfy retirement.
Take a trip to Pembroke Dock you'll love it here 😂😂
😂😂 The best part of Pembroke Dock is the bloody Irish ferry leaving the dump.
@@The58stupot I know 😆
I stayed in the cotswalds last week in an Airbnb. It was in chipping Norton. The lane down the back had a huge mansion and I wondered who lived there. Every day during the week a helicopter would take off and fly directly over our Airbnb and fly to Central London. I used to watch it on flight radar 24. On the Saturday before we left I saw the same helicopter take off from the mansion, fly over our Airbnb and land at Oxford Airport a few minutes later. A plane then took off a few minutes later and went to the USA. No idea who lives there. Probably a royal or maybe an MP?
im from witney which is literally just outside the cotswolds (oxfordshire) and I love the cotswolds unfortunately I dont tlive there anymore
I can’t believe Tetbury made this list and I can’t believe Burford topped it.
These places always remind me of the lyrics of Pink Floyd's Dogs.
I live in Bulgaria and you could buy pretty much the whole village for the average cost of one house in Burford.
07:35 "Money-N-Pocket" WTF🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just a wee-bit down the road from "Money-N-Bank".
If you research your birth town, you'll find most places in the UK looked like this. Most these towns aren't even that old - sure some buildings may be original - yet many buildings will be recreations of architectural eras. Posh = old money/established families.
Damn it's unfortunate, all these places look so pretty but are so clogged up with cars it's hard to appreciate the historic beauty. I guess that's why I like places like York and Cambridge more, the historic city centers there are mostly car free, a lot calmer and prettier imo
Yup it certainly ruins the atmosphere. Not sure why they can’t just build a giant car park on the outskirts and make the squares car free. I guess people are too lazy.
Funny stuff indeed!
So glad my Cotswolds town didn't make the mix, good old Chippy (Chipping Norton) - yep, that famed town of "The Chipping Norton Set", except nobody rich actually lives _in_ the town, they all live in the countryside around it.
A little Labour town in a sea of Tory blue, down to earth, a little bit grubby around the edges, but as real as it gets.
Still a working town ... just about.
Sadly, time is taking its toll on the town - it's becoming more gentrified, slowly but surely.
Still not posh - god help us if it does become that - but it looks like it may go that way.
Once the cheapest of towns in the Cotswolds to buy a house, right on the very edge - but lots of development is starting to ruin it.
Such is life.
I love your vids
Unsuprisingling none of these towns have a Wetherspoons. Only Cirencester has a Waitrose which is a but more surprising. Maybe these people are so posh they even Waitrose isn't good enough for them. Moreton in Marsh is the only town on this list with a railway station but all but Burford did once have a railway station.
i want trurdtowns back they are hilarious
I'm surprised Bibury didn't make the list but I guess the population wasn't high enough
Yea population. It also had over one million average. Not sure why I can’t stand the place. Was forced to go there all the time as a kid. All I remember is one pub and some vicious peacocks 😂
Mummy buy tetbury for me ive been awful good at St John's Wood's American School of London
The crazy thing is, if you look up the index of multiple depravation, a lot of these places are pretty much average, especially the cotswolds constituancy itself. The neighboring constituancy of Tewkesbury is actually less deprived, despite Tewkesbury itself being a bit of a dive. I guess all the Cotswold dwellers spend all their money on housing so they can't afford anything else...