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- Welcome to a new series on the channel. We usually cover the TurdTowns of the UK but it's time for some positivity. Although the UK is struggling at the moment there are seemingly a few places which aren't struggling. Here are the 10 Poshest towns in Somerset UK. Let me know what you think of this new series. Dom't worry we are still filming an episode of TurdTowns this month. The plan is to go to Gwent in Wales. Eventually we will head up north I promise!
I’m aware that I put MEP rather than MP for your government. Apologies I must have Brexit on the mind 😂
Just seen this fair enough 😂😂😂😂
You also forgot 'Disgraced' when naming 'Disgraced MP, Liam Fox'
@@steveowen4136 what did he do?
I think getting your head into gear b4 running your gob tends to work
@@Turdtowns Breached ministerial code by bringing his friend along to security meetings whilst defence secretary, essentially compromising British security.
As a kid posh meant 2 things ..
1. You owned your own house.
2. Your parents were still together
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True
Ie.middle class
I grew up in southern California and ... same.
3. Fitted carpets.
@@sforoushani1 Posh was never a phrase used to describe Socal
A 'posh' town is where a man with pink trousers and two black labradors driving an ironically uneconomical restored V8 MK1 Range-Rover, is happy to pay £8 for a single beef tomato from a farmers market only to leave it to rot in the fridge of this second home where he regularly bores guests with tales of property prices, Skiing, The Maldives and house-hunting for their third home in Brittany!
I know, because I have one of these each side of me here in Brittany! They lecture on saving the environment, and at the weekend they seem to love killing small animals and drink driving.
"But it doesn't matter, because we go back on Saturday" 🤔
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Well worded made me laugh the range rover bit 😂
I think the definition of posh is shopping in Waitrose as opposed to drinking cider outside Waitrose.
what about if you bought the cider *in* Waitrose?
@@juchetony1910 it cancels out
@@chicken1117 like drinking Chablis outside Aldi then.
@@juchetony1910 nah man u get buy 1 get one free tesco 2ltr cider and walk to the nice waitrose benches u get me fam
Having a Waitrose at all
I lived about an hour away from Frome and a taxi driver told me Frome turned itself around, from a dying high street to a thriving one by cutting down the cost of renting a shop. I know there is more to it, but I can't quite remember everything
Yes. I belong to a common law group and we’re challenging councils on the legality of council tax. Point being council chatge extortionate rates which goes into their owns pockets
@@roslynaubrey7766 Sovcit nuttery.
We used to live in Frome, we moved away to be closer to the children. What actually turned Frome around was the closing of the old factories and the expansion of the two universities of Bath, meaning a different kind of people moved in (Frome is 20mins from the U of Bath campus, less than many places in Bath itself.)
It's perfectly true that the council worked to enourage small shops to open up in a dying area and this was successful, but it was the graduate influx that provided them with customers.
Posh is being warm all through Winter.
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I thought the working class were notoriously obese. Thats all year round insulation.
But when you pay to have the Internet while claiming you can't afford to keep warm is an absolute joke.
Get a log burner, being green is expensive and like cutting your dick off
@@reaperj550 Everything is internet based now, even kids have to submit some of their work that way. I don’t think you have really considered this response fully. It’s flawed.
Portishead also gets extra cool points for having one if not THE best Trip Hop groups named after it.
I was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and I’ve remained in this location all of my life. There are many beautiful towns in the area, including Ilkley, Ripon, Northallerton, Pateley Bridge, and many more, and the countryside is breathtaking.
The South of the country is over run with people, and it’s so congested.
yorkshirists marry their cousins and have 6 toes on their left foot. facts.
Ripon is lovely, I agree. Being a Southerner,I don't know the others in your list but you are right, the south is WAY too crowded. I did however also visit Studley Roger (4 miles from Ripon) which was overrun by non locals (who drove in and parked) all on a dog walk. It was so very crowded that the place was completely wrecked. The local inhabitants of Studley Roger get fed up with quite so many tourists, just like the locals of Castle Coombe, Wiltshire. Tourism on this sort of scale completely defeats the object. Trees are effectively hugged to death. Gawping, gormless tourists lower the tone then which means that, "posh" can also be felled.
I went to uni in Ripon, lovely town, very expensive for a student at the time, I think the uni is closed now. Squaddies overrun the one nightclub and were rumoured to be very rapey. I'm from Ireland so thought the countryside was bland as fuck.
The North is interesting because of its industrial past it has scars but the posh parts are very posh. I visited the South side of Manchester, Cheshire borders and I have never seen wealth like that anywhere. I also visited your area North Yorkshire around Settle and it was wall to wall Range Rovers. What struck me was local people hold the wealth. In the West Country the locals are poor and Londoners and people from other areas control the wealth.
Just returned from a holiday in North Yorkshire in beautiful weather and I loved it. Visited Whitby, Wetherby etc really impressive.
8. Langport
7. Frome
6. Portishead
5. Porlock
4. Bath
3. Chew Magna
2. Wedmore
1. Dulverton
You missed Wells which I would have rated mid table. I loved all the grockles coming and cooing over St Cuthberts thinking it was the Cathedral when I worked at Tony Caples. Two decent schools and only one really rough bit, a lot of well off commuters from Bristle.
I went out with a lovely young lady from Wedmore back in the 80's, I have fond memories of the place, but, it was insular even then to a wide boy from Wookey.
Wells gets a thumbs-up just for Hot Fuzz alone.
@@overcorpsend being classed as a city despite being no larger than you're average market town (cathedral is massive tho)
Wells is very posh with a great Waitrose Cathedral and Bishops Palace
Bruton and Frome are also fashionable and prosperous.
@@overcorpse Yeah, I was wondering if visitors to St. C's might be Hot Fuzz fans touring locations.
@@richardgale4827 No idea mate. I was born and raised in the civilised part of the West Country. Wiltshire. Though I am perilously close to the Somerset border.
You missed Dunster; that's about as posh as anywhere in Somerset. It has a castle, a church, a posh hotel and loads of other posh stuff.
Pmsl...
Perfect for the illegal immigrants then, get ready to be culturally enriched 👍🏻
@@noelwallace5257Don't know why you're bringing that nonsense up
Dunster is a privately owned village,the"commoners"who live there are tenants.
@@Dehydratedpencilyeah you got loads of them in your house don't you?
I danced with joy when you mentioned Dulverton. This is truly a hidden gem in England. There are green fields all around and I usually have a shower with the window open. And I can see the hills around me. Then I break into song and sing: The Hills are alive, with the sound of music! Absolutely love Dulverton. And I finish the day standing at my kitchen door singing Pslam 23. Enough said! Thanks for your video, brilliantly done!
You can see Dulverton from Albany, New York?
Funny cos I do live about 10 miles from Dulverton and it's the worst kind of posh, it's full of stuck up tory animal abusers
Having travelled through a few towns in England, the one thing that surprised me is how busy the roads are.....tiny windy roads with constant traffic... that to me defeats the object of living there. you have million pound plus houses with constant heavy traffic in earshot....I live in a large city and I've lived on three main roads... never again...at my age I like peace,I like a window open when I'm in bed...I currently live in a cul de sac just half a mile from city centre and I can hear a pin drop.its a rare and wonderful thing 🙂Im sure some of these places were beautiful fifty years ago but not now.
Yep. Too dangerous to cycle so nobody cycles, one of the worst railway networks in the first world, and a dislike of changing or improving anything.
Nope germany has the worst railway network, trust me
I agree with the nightmare traffic. Wherever you now go, it's the same. Country streets were never designed to be for this.
@@XxXBattleStarXxXOverwhelmingly not true
@@richardhingston6073 Please make plans to leave. Us patriots don't want you being miserable here, nor making us miserable with your constant criticisms. Try France. You'll love their trains.
PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE POSITIVE VIDEOS FOR EVERY ENGLISH COUNTY! ❤
This is not positive, this is the reason why most of the UK is shit. fuck these towns.
Wells should be in the top ten. Somewhere I’d be quite happy to live. Hope, one day, to visit Dulverton.
Yes I expected Wells to be on the list too.
I had the joy of visiting for a few days, wonderful place!
It's easy to tell posh places, they still have pre-Worboys road signs, as at 18:45. Most places got rid of those black and white enamel signs in the 1960s, as they originated back when cars did 30 mph, not 70 mph+. Posh places all over the country have pre-Worboys signs clinging to their charming local stone corners and junctions.
Posh town - 6 coffee shops in the high street, no burnt rubber on the streets from hooning, no rubbish on the streets, streets full of tradespeople improving house and garden.
A posh town or village is where the population have a strong sense of civic responsibility and constantly want to keep improving it, keeping it clean, tidy and to encourage local businesses.
No, it's not. It is when Londoners move in and price out the younger generation of locals.
They may want to keep it clean ... which is a good thing ... but they also want to keep/price out others who are not like "them", creating little enclaves of exclusivity.
@@overcorpse When that happens, you get no one able to work low-paid jobs during the "off" season - fishing, cafes etc.
@@overcorpse most born and bred Londoners were driven out, by being denied social housing, been going on 35 years,
I bet none of these so called Londoners sound like me.
They keep their own village clean whilst they support the Western invasions of foreign countries.
Virtuous they are not.
I'm surprised Bruton isn't on the list. I remember the dreadful George Osborne moving there and it becoming the new Chipping Norton! Personally, not posh, but Wells and Frome are my favourites. Something about being beside the Mendips
I was expecting to see Bruton on the list.
i would have thought bruton is the poshest place in Somerset now
Was going to say this - Castle Cary is also quite 'posh' but Bruton would have been no 1 for me!
What about cheddar and congresbury?
Wells is boring has mostly awful people living there.
Being from the West Country , I really like your channel. It’s great…many thanks..and keep up the good work..and give us all a chuckle or two, 👍
Generally, every town and city in the UK has "posh" areas and lower down the pecking order they all have "middle class" areas. If you take Manchester for example - the city centre might look quite run down, but its suburbs (some might argue which aren't technically in Manchester) are extremely posh, such as Wilmslow and Altrincham. Even the city centre has swanky apartment blocks etc. The difference in the UK is that posh and poor people tend to live nearby to each other, rather than being separated. There are some "towns" that tend to be posher rather than deprived - but overall, every major town and city has poor, middle class, and posh areas.
My local town (Darlington) is a perfect example. The "inner city" is really quite deprived. The rows and rows of dilapidated terraced streets with (generally) non working residents, are located just 1 mile from the "West End" of Darlington - an area of leafy, detached homes with acres of space. The West End takes up about 40% of the area of the town. Then there's several "okay areas" dotted around the town which don't fall into deprived or posh. So, is Darlington a "turd town"? Well, parts of it are, and parts of it are not. The town centre is actually okay because there's enough wealth nearby to sustain a lot of the independent shops etc.
The UK isn't like America where wealth tends to exist totally separate to deprivation. The UK's a small country geographically, and so people have to live closer together.
I'd say the whole of the UK has posh, middle class and deprived areas.
You’re right but bad areas can be fine, bad or really bad.
Manchester city centre looks far from run down...no empty shops, thriving cafes and restaurants....which part of the city centre are you referring to?
@@davidowen2396 Take it you haven't been to Piccadilly Gardens recently?
@@harrychown6854 Yes I have..to me it's okay...but not everybody's cup of tea...I thought you were referring to the city centre as a whole...
@@davidowen2396 Only been there once but was really impressed by the city center. Some fine buildings. Lots of ladies very dressed up to do their shopping.
Love this! I’m from Yatton (which has a train station!) and “Gormless tourist” in Portishead tickled me
There are lots of posh places in UK...nice...clean...and tidy...caring people....lots of country villages..nice neat hedges .
cut lawns...and houses in good repair...
The UK has some of the nicest looking houses going shame its let down buy are shit government letting what was beautiful places go to shit
If I was that recipient of the deer, I would have left a thankyou note explaining that they were very much appreciated.
Better than a horse's head.
What makes a posh “red or mustard corduroy “ town? It must have a Waitrose, a Seasalt, Crewe and Whitestuff, together with one of those expensive pots and pans shops that also sells Ooni pizza ovens , Aga accessories and Duelit toasters and depending on how rural it is, a gunsmith sand saddlers This is just our observation anyway.
wow you just described Southwold and Aldeburgh in suffolk!
@@TobasscoJelly Suffolk is full of them Bury st. Edmunds is another great one
some stupid place like cheltenham
Frome and Dulverton put a smile on my face, thank you!
Great video, I live in the area and apart from the MP/MEP issue its really accurate. One update though, NatWest and HSBC have announced that they will be closing their Frome bank branches this year.
Ag that’s lame I thought it was too good to be true
Update: Barclays will be joining HSBC and NatWest in their bank closures
Such a shame as the HSBC was one of the few still open for miles and the staff were lovely.
Wedmore was actually one of the very first places in England to have mains electricity (Thanks to some rich bloke who setup generators)
As someone from the place - we all went to the comprehensive and generally its actually got a very friendly community feel.
It looks lovely.
I love Bath looking around Shops in the City Centre
The Cotswolds used to be posh but ever since every W⚓ celebrity decided to move there it's removed any class it once had
Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen comes to mind, he's from a turd town called Blackwood originally.
Still posh. Very expensive houses.
@Bertie Schitz-Peas
Wasn't he the poncy woofter who loved designing rooms with MDF all time
@@dorkbrandon4422 Yeah that's the boi, he's probably torn between chuffed at being the only tv celeb from turd town Blackwood and being embarrassed that he's welsh.
Posh people have tea in the evening with cucumber sandwiches, expect others to run around after them without having to say thank you to the plebs. Having money doesn't make you posh. Thanks for another great video, love the commentary
Thank you hopefully one day I can have cucumber sandwiches
Lol,sorry but Tea is taken in the afternoon with Dinner taken in the evening and not all people who follow tradition look down on people who don't.
Nonsense. Posh people have lunch at midday and dinner in the evening.
Afternoon tea is afternoon not evening.🙄
@@deesolomon4819 don't apologise, I am a full time carer I hardly know what day it is most days let alone what meal is eaten when 🤣🤣🤣
Portishead railway is on the cards for the last 40 years ! Still nice to see my mum's town covered.
When you said Wedmore was famous for one person, I thought, for a mad moment, that you were going to say Alfred the Great.
In today's Britain, I should heve known better, I suppose.
Any town you can buy a Panama Hat and get your Barbour coat restitched counts as posh.
Bath's dark secret is that the people walk backwards...
That’s the second secret
My guess is that it has a Wetherspoons!
@@Turdtowns I worked in Bath from 1973 to '79. Once away from the centre, there are some pretty rough estates...
@Fosbren Yep. Outside all the tourist traps, the rest of the city is pretty grim.
@@christophernewman5027Pretty much every large town or small city has. They kind of have to in a way, or where else would the minimum wage workers live.
This is probably increased further when there's a university in the town and the students from more modest families need somewhere to live. These are often badly looked after both by the students and by their landlords too so they can make the general image look quite neglected and run down - very long grass, dirty old paint etc. The example of this I know best is Canterbury that is very posh in the expensive places and very dilapidated and in the cheapest places, like you've mashed together a posh town like those in this video with a rough town like the other ones on this channel and it has patches of both. I'd imagine Bath is the same (albeit a bit posher overall because it's extremely posh).
Hello, I live in Frome so it was amazing to hear you talk in about it , we don’t have an Aldi in Frome tho ? We have a Lidl if that is what you meant, we also have Sainsbury’s, and marks and Spencer.
I really enjoyed this. I've said it before: your posts are smart and very witty.
Thanks again my friend
Grew up in portishead and I always love going back there when visiting my parents. It’s such a quite and pleasant place.
I live just down the road from Dulverton , in Bampton, which is another lovely village, maybe not quite as posh as Dulverton, though personally don’t regard Dulverton as that posh really, but then again rural living in beautiful Devon can be regarded as quite posh living.
"There was an Audi" :-)) Great videos!! I got out of England 20 years ago and never looked back but these videos are so interesting. We last lived, for 8 years, in Rode just a few miles from Frome. Beautiful area but I could no longer cope with the weather. And I still love to visit Bath - as posh as it gets! Well done!!!
Rode makes me sad now. I used to love the bird gardens, & was there on the last day they were open. Betty & Don would be heartbroken.
I live in mid-Wales at the moment as I'm attending university, but I have enough ancestral heritage from Wedmore to stake a claim on a house free of charge. My family has been in the Wedmore and Mark area since the 1500's. What family I have in Somerset now lives in Cheddar and Langport but I'd love to go back there someday. Somerset is very expensive if you want to live somewhere good though!
" but I have enough ancestral heritage from Wedmore to stake a claim on a house free of charge. " LOL what a cunt.
I am going to guess you are at Aberystwyth!
@@alwayspooh1588 Abers is West Wales. I'm near Carmarthen. :)
@@locklear7937 Ah! I always had Aber down as mid to north. Well, as a fellow student, good luck with your studies, study hard and best wishes!
Another great upload from my new favorite TH-cam channel!
Thanks Steve!
I agree with others that Bruton, Dunster and wells should be on this list. You're bang on about Wedmore though, very snooty.
I think north Somerset should have it's own list, it's an entirely different county as far as I'm concerned.
And Watchet is much nicer than Mine head.
I live in Frome , so awesome to see a video on it!
As a former resident of South Somerset, I find it hilarious that anyone could possibly consider Langport as "posh".
As for Porlock, Wedmore and Chew Magna, substitute "posh" for "up themselves".
I'm a "former" resident for a reason. People make a place, 'nuff said.
Yea they aren’t the friendliest places. Frome on the overhand was very friendly.
@Turdtowns Frome has a lot of "outsiders" living there which is possibly why that is.
I agree about Wedmore people being up themselves these days. Before my Great Uncle died (he'd lived in Wedmore all his life mind) he said that the village was nothing like it used to be; all the old families had moved away to find work and been replaced by city folk and posh nobs who thought they were owed something. The laughable thing is that my family has roots in Wedmore going back to the 1500's - I have more legitimacy to be living there than probably anyone living there now - yet I could buy a house in the community and be treated like a dirty outsider. Not that I could afford to live there however!
I would say the same about Frome (my hometown). At one point (admittedly a few decades ago) this was centre page of a major newspaper as roughest town in Britain
So funny...lol.
Can't wait for posh towns in Devon
Dulverton is quite lovely, it's true. However, it isn't perfect - they lost their bank and I think the ATM went too but there is one in the Co op. The car parking can be a nightmare. We holiday there and it can be great, with some great places for lunch including the Tantivy, the Copper Kettle and Mortimer's to name just a few. 👍
I mean you could describe young people who live in some of these areas as successful but equally you could describe them as privileged. The latter is much more likely in the UK in my experience. Most young successful people, couldn't afford to live in some of these places.
I think it comes down to young successful people being sensible with their money. I have friends in their late 20s who managed to buy in places on this list. All from having good jobs but being financially savvy at the same time.
Working hard and being successful isn't a privilege. Its a reward. Sure, there will always be those rich families but they are in the minority.
@@Turdtowns With the way thing are heading, having a good job and benig financially savvy aren't going to be enough any more. When hard work no longer pays the average individual it's time to seek better political representation.
@@Vroomfondle1066 hard work might mean having multiple streams of income and running a business or creating a product that sells well. There’s always ways to make money.
@@Turdtowns My daughter and son-in-law are extremely savvy cash wise, they both work two jobs, one has a doctorate and published papers, both have 🥇degrees. BUT, in their mid-thirties, no offspring, one small dog are still unable to get one foot on the property ladder, instead they pay exorbitant rent (Thatcher gave all the power to landlords/ladies) and the housing market has just become even more expensive, unattainable, it makes my 🩸boil. 😤👵🏻🇬🇧
Good. It's nice to see people do well.
Mate have you even been to Bruton?
It's a town that consists almost entirely of private schools and art galleries.
Bath is beautiful I went there on a schooltrip to Gloucestershire (Cowley Manor if that's still a thing?) We visited the Roman Baths, completely wasted on me and my mates (we were only 10!)
I'm a simple man my definition of posh is all the residents taking their bins out 😂
I saw my house in this video!! Very exciting. And Im about as posh as a discarded McDonald's bag, blown up against a wrought iron fence.
Frome is lovely, It strikes a good balance, Not super posh though clearly quite affluent. It also has a strong interest in arts & culture, and the monthly craft market is a good time to visit. It feels quite like the Bishopston/Ashley down area of bristol.
Sash windows, no upvc, respect for architecture, no massive eyesore shopping centres, open shops, maybe a castle or river, private schools, antique shops and history generally.
Pretty accurate
an inetresting and enlightening way to see the UK at it's best and worst! Keep up the good work.
So, in my idiosyncratic rural county of Pembrokeshire, all the pleasanter, affluent settlements (e.g. Narberth, Tenby, Trefdraeth) tend too have less then 5k people. Not only does this mean that they are just to small to attract the bland, national chain stores and supermarkets, they also have centres dominated by historic buildings, with less floorspace and therefore lower rates, allowing independent shops flourish. This makes them popular with tourists and wealthier shoppers from nearby places. Meanwhile, the larger settlements like Haverfordwest and Pembroke Dock are rathe run down, with edge of town supermarkets and nationally known brands, but have dead high streets. Is this a pattern that you all see in your areas of the country?
I've noticed all the stereotype council estates were built in between the end of World War 2 and the 1974 Local Government Reorganisation. Those in the villages seem better looked after and more have been bought; even what few flats there are in places such as Ashover, Kelstedge, Holymoorside, Wadshelf etc seem a world away from the stereotype...
The nice bit of Bath is the city centre and Lansdown. The rest of the city is pretty grim (hang around Twerton some time), and far more deprived than you'd expect.
Having watched a few of these vids, it seems like 'Turd' = empty shops, 'Posh' = open shops. What drives me barmy is places that HAVE shops, but don't bloody open them. Then you go back in two years' time and they're all closed down. Yeah, not letting customers in your shop will do that. Frome not only has lots of independent niche shops bubbling with enthusiasm, but every time I go there, they're open. Actually OPEN!
Oh yeah - open 3 days a week, for about 3 hours a day, but not the hours listed on google maps. Great.
Yea I get what you’re saying. I think empty shops makes the centre look ugly. I try to couple it with crime data, house prices, local news etc. love more input though anything else you could suggest?
@@Turdtowns Acknowledging the correlation rather than criticising it. Given the limited time you have available to visit towns, I reckon your hit rate's pretty sound, actually.
Posh means you have wealth and taste, not just rich and tasteless.
Posh people usually have the worst taste and treat others like servants.
Clevedon is another lovely seaside town in North Somerset. Worth a visit. It least the part of the town on the hill is anyway.
Just the part on the hill😂
@@Markyd123 well, the rest is OK but the fancy folk live on the hill 😄
@@billybobhouse9559yes, we do🤣
Portishead DID of course have a station pre-Beaching and a town of that size does need one. Regenerating marina and dock areas is a good strategy for boosting a town's appeal....it has worked (to some extent) in other places, even Portsmouth and Southampton.
Made the mistake of driving back to Taunton from Dulverton via Wimbleball in peak pheasant season. Stressful to say the least 😪 😅
For a surprising posh town try Caldy, Wirral. It's home to those in the association football business and such. An outside bog will set you back at least £1M. And it's just 8 miles from the uber turd town of Birkenhead.
Sounds like a bigger contrast than Crewe / Nantwich; more like Crewe / Alderley Edge (although they have the industrial Sandbach in between).
Loving your channel mate. Disappointed you didn't say much about Bath. It's posh in the centre but go to the outskirts and not so nice. House prices have shot up due to tourism and rich londoners. I grew up here in the 80s and 90s and not one of my friends from school can afford a house here so we all moved away. The town centre had a lot of work done to it but there's barely any shops for us locals. Feels like the place has a massive gap between rich and poor.
I’m saving that for a full city review and thanks
@@Turdtowns nice one. I will look forward to that 👍
I've been to the tourist places of Bath and it was amazing. Lovely cafes and the roman baths are great
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekit's a horrible place in which to live,&I think that if you lived here,then you would rapidly grow to dislike the place for a great number of reasons.
Nice that a town has named itself after Portishead, the 90s Trip Hoppers. What was it called before?
I went to drama school in Paddington W2 with one of Portisheads band members. I now live in South Somerset not far from Langport. Been here 4 years having moved from scabby North LDN. Much happier now.
@@burntcrumpets5616 I moved back to my Yorkshire homeland 23 years ago, after 15 happy years in London. I was worried that I wouldn’t settle but I’ve never looked back. I don’t even like to visit now. Never met a Portishead, although I did work in a Post Office with the Ozric Tentacles tom tom player.
@@paulannable3734 Ozrics was my sound track circa 90 - 94. Great, trippy band. Saw them twice at Glasto 92. Portishead were also great.
@@spinny2010 Glastonbury 1992! I was there! Wasn’t it hot that year… Lou Reed was unexpectedly fantastic.
Bath is hiding some dark hidden secrets !!!!! Tell me about it @ 13:05 it does seem that everybody in this town is walking backwards😊😊
Bath is a city 👍
@@waverunner3911 Well spotted 😍😍
As I live in Somerset, I really enjoy these video's. My town was a turd town, not a posh town! No surprise there!
Posh towns aren’t just towns where the economy isn’t struggling? They are wealthy places with aspirations and a middle class vibe. Bath, Cheltenham, Leamington, Harrogate, Marlow, Henley, Richmond, Tunbridge Wells, Southport, etc, etc. Love your videos - regularly make me laugh out loud 👍
Unfortunately, thanks to 15 years of austerity politics, towns that aren't struggling do count as posh now.
@@OrangeNash Er, you're a bit behind the times - Austerity has not existed since circa 2016. In fact the government has been criticised for its unbridled spending? HS2 and several major infrastructure projects, massive increases in regional budgets, industrial investments and support, new MOD increases in spending, record breaking NHS spending, raises in the living wage, etc, etc, etc. "Austerity" is a concept burnt into the mindset of many following the 2008 crash, but technically the treasury has been breaking records in its spending for around 7 years now - as I say, the amount of Government spending has caused concerns amongst governing members and economic bodies (increasing the public debt). Its interesting how the public's opinion is so often not based upon fact but the branding and narratives of around 10 to 15 years previously.
Dulverton is lovely! Surprised you've not mentioned Wells though?
Would've been a brilliant mention given its the smallest city in England (not counting City of London as that's part of a larger urban agglomeration defacto known as the largest city)
cracking ironmongers in Wells. I bought some paint in there a few years back.
Tavistock is also on your posh list.. very clean and tidy..best high street I,ve seen for years...
It's a peculiarly British thing that when we see someone living in a nice house with obvious wealth instead of feeling good for them we assume they are vile exploiters of others and can't possibly be honest
Kinda true 😂
Only small minded people think that way. Having wealth in many cases, means people have worked hard and also, who doesn’t like to experience some luxury? That’s why I take regular short breaks to places like The Cotswolds, Devon, Bath etc.
I think jealousy’s got a lot to do with it.
Because the former is much more likely than the latter? It's a lot easier to buy an expensive house if you exploit others than if you are kind and generous. That seems pretty obvious. I don't make assumptions about specific individuals who live in such expensive houses, however, on average more of them are likely to be exploitative than "honest".
I don't think it is a British thing at all. Look who keeps winning our general elections! Quite the opposite. We treat wealthy people as if they are divine beings who can do no wrong. It's the poor who get generally treated as vile, lazy , worthless ignoramuses inevitably scrounging off the state.
I’ve stayed in Bath and Portishead and they’re both really expensive places to stay in. but lots to do and see. Bath is definitely full of posh people
The homeless living in the carparks&doorways of Bath would make you realise that where there's extreme wealth,there's also extreme poverty&much poverty.
Posh: pretentious, hipster, high-and-mighty, better-than-you attitude usually held by urbanites who live in a bubble of consumerism, in-crowd validation and the en vogue ideas of the moment.
West Londoners?
@@ExoticDoll Eh, don't know. Never been TO London, only THROUGH London. From Gatwick to Paddington Station, and form there to England proper, AKA anywhere but London.
"low crime rate" is just what all of Europe used to have. If you bring people from countries with murder rates of 50/100k, that will change things.
Chagford is a weird posh village in Devon when all around it is suffering from the typical issues. It's propped up by wealthy outsiders who make/made their money outside the county. I have known locals who have lived there for short periods and found it a bit strange because it's very much a bubble that operates differently than anywhere else.
They probably call it Chaggers
Chagford the very definition of posh town.
Sixty years ago I and my siblings lived at our grandma + granddad's farm up on the moor outside Chagford. We lived there for two months while my Mum was in hospital. Being little kids it felt like a year especially as we had the full range of weather from deep snow to blazing sunshine. The farm was called Lingcombe then,it was finally sold last year. But my siblings and I haven't seen much of our legal share of the proceeds. I don't know. Lawyers! I'm with Shakespeare. But I recall Chagford then,grim and dull,like everywhere else,practical and workaday. So imagine my surprise about two years ago on watching a Countryfile based in Chagford to find out it's now chock full of artists,writers and organizers of Fairy workshops!
@@janebaker966 Sounds very familiar. My family have a country estate which includes a village but a lot of the properties were sold off to pay for inheritance tax and quickly became stockbroker weekend cottages (not that we got stockbroker prices for them!). It rapidly shifted from being mainly agricultural workers to partly a commuter dormitory village in the late 1990s. Not that commuters don't deserve to live in quaint places, but some of them started petitions about the smell of slurry, tractors parked on the high street, the pub not serving food, the village shop only selling tinned food etc. I had to chair a village meeting in 2018 where the Chair of the parish council and the local (Labour) MP introduced me. The MP said, "In light of your grievences let me present X, who owns 95% of your village." Never seen botox fail so rapidly. I'd been sitting next to them in the pub and church for several years and they assumed I was a local peasant 😆. The next week I had about 6 invitations to BBQs, all of which I replied to by saying "It's usual for me to invite new arrivals to call on me , but in the meantime have you considered making a contribution to our food bank or chancel repair fund?"
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Why is change so depressing? Why does it bring out the NIMBY in folk?
The feel of villages as bankers weekend retreats depresses one's English soul because of a), the loss of a community and b), the failure of the local industry to house it's locals and keep the unlocal, far-flung. E.g. I visit my friend and her banker boyf in a west Oxfordshire village. It sounds like your description. Their weekend bolthole is a ghastly barn conversion with unhuman windows in walls that were not designed for fenestration. Nothing anywhere feels right about barn conversions, unless perhaps if you are bovine? The village feels as if it is suffering from an accidental dump of nuclear waste, or, death of a slice of history. Luckily my friend is not English and the boyfriend is from preppy US so they have no idea how depressed I feel in my v English soul when I visit. Needless to say the so-called village has no shop. Chelsea tractors and electric gates. Not an "affordable" abode within 30 odd miles. It all feels deeply weird.
As for Frome, my niece has one of those independent shops. My brother has lived there for 40 years and has seen it improve considerably in that time. But, you're right, it's not yet posh.
I'm a Brit (born in Somerset, spent most of my married life in Devon, now living six months of the year in Malaysia). Dulverton, I don't think I have ever been there. I am back in the UK for our annual 6 months of misery in April. Ill put it on the list to visit. I agree with you about Froome, lovely little place and Portishead is far nicer than Weston Super Meh!
I just love ex-pats that do nothing but run the UK down from their far-away new homes. You just can't leave the UK alone can you? Please find somewhere to stay all year. Us patriots really do want you to leave and stay away.
pleasant towns, to me have the following:
1. LOW crime rate
2. people actively look after their gardens and keep them in good order
3. a good range of pleasant shops
4. a minimum of "boarded up" shops
5. people are pleasant and respectful towards others but NOT over-bearing. And should respect if people like to live quietly
6. a Bank in the town that is still open and is likely to continue to be there
7. Access to a decent roadway in good order to access London when required
8. Most homes to be owner occupied by ONE family and NOT rented to tenants
9. a bonus is if there is a Church and the minister and the parishioners are pleasant, kind and welcoming.
NB: having access to LOTS of money does NOT signal "posh"
NB: being arrogant, demanding and selfish and snobby towards others does NOT signal posh
NB: throwing their money around and driving TOO FAST through the village to show off the new car does NOT signal "posh"
Mad to think Chew Magna is just a stone's throw from Bishopsworth..they're Poles apart
Great video, I've recently moved to Stoke Sub Hamdon in Somerset, watching your posh video shows me places I'd like to visit 👍
Hopefully Worcestershire is on the list 👌🏻
turd towns - stourport, kidderminster, redditch, evesham (scrapes in), shrub hill and rainbow hill areas of worcester
posh towns - tenbury wells, ombersley, upton, great malvern, honeybourne, broadway
seems like the north east is being neglected, and it’s let down by it’s proximity to birmingham and lack of tourism compared to the south
Herefordshire and Worcestershire are definitely posh but very friendly from my experience of visiting
I live in Martock which is exceedingly posh. Love this part of the world
Portishead has one of the best bands ever named after it !
Love this, subscribed for more posh and turd towns! Can’t wait for you to get to County Durham
Thanks my friend
Ferryhill....Blackhall Colliery....Spennymoor....Hartlepool....Tow Law.....spoiled for choice up there man. I was posh, lived in a semi in Esh Winning.
The city of Bath is my first thought when I think of posh
It definitely is one of the poshest places I’ve ever visited. I almost felt that I needed to drive back to Birmingham and change my outfit 😂
@@mariancounselloryou're kidding,Bath is filthy!
It's not very posh. That's a legend clinging on from the 1930s era and of course perpetuated by the Bath Tourist office in conjunction with the Council. In fact back in it's heyday the 18th century,Beau Nash and all that,it wasn't posh either,only superficially. It was the 18th century Las Vegas and Jane Austen who had to live there for a few short years hated the place. There is hardly any real posh people living in Bath. They live in one or other of the pretty villages outside or a nearby town like Bradford on Avon or Marshfield.
I go to Dulverton every year on holiday. Never found the locals to be rude.
So there is now no railway station in Langport. When I was a child in the Ffties, there were TWO: Langport East and Langport West. And as for no one having heard of Wedmore (except in connection with Gary Glitter), has Alfred the Great been erased from history lessons, along with the Treaty of Wedmore that he signed with the Danes? Times change!
I assure you most people have not heard of Wedmore.
Ah yes Old Alfie...Great indeed. But posh?
The word 'posh' is an acronym for 'Port Out, Starboard Home'.
Yes we know.
That's a classic old wives tale. It supposedly stood for “Port Out, Starboard Home”. It is explained that somebody who had a cabin on the port side on the outward trip, and on the starboard side on the return trip, had the benefit of the sea breeze, and shelter from the sun, on the hottest part of the journey through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. Such cabins were reserved for the most wealthy passengers, we are told, and the P&O company stamped their tickets with POSH to show their status.
The trouble is there’s absolutely no evidence for it and P&O flatly denies any such term existed. It’s just a legend, though a very persistent one. One argument against it is that posh is known from 1918, while the story of its origin first appears only decades later.
The most probable solution - though unprovable because slang is so rarely written down - is that it comes from London street slang for money. This may well derive from Romany posh, half, originally applied to a halfpenny, then to any small sum of money, and then to money in general. This is recorded from as early as 1830 and was certainly still around in 1892 when Montagu Williams published his Down East and Up West, quoting in it a comment from a Londoner about a street singer who chatted up potential givers of money: “That sort of patter I was just speaking of is the thing to get the posh, they’ll tell you”. A shift in sense from “money”, to “well off”, and hence to “upper-class” is not too hard to imagine.
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I'd heard it said that Waitrose makes a town 'posh' and Lidl makes it 'turd'. My town has both on opposite side of the same road! It also has about 5 or 6 banks in close proximity to each other. That said, if you want the next nearest Barclays, it's 10 miles away after 3 closer branches closed recently. Much the same as TSB when it closed it's only town centre branch - now inaccessible in person for 10 miles.
The next town over from me has Lidl and Waitrose right next to each other. It's more of a Lidl place but a few upmarket villages in the area seem to attract in people who can afford Waitrose as their main supermarket.
We have an Aldi and Waitrose and nearly all our banks are gone. Town centre isn't too bad yet, but a lot of take aways.
@@nuntius1933 Because without face to face contact there is literally no money. It is represented by nothing more than numbers on a screen: not backed up by real value such as gold. At the point of true cashlessness, not only are those who can't/won't use the technology fully excluded from society as they have no access to funds - even to buy basics like food, but those who are willingly using it can have every penny of their expenditure tracked (at best) and fully controlled by 3rd parties such as the bank, govt or private companies (at worst), so even the willing can be excluded from some or all transactions at the whim of 3rd parties. Cashless Society = zero privacy and zero control over your own wealth. Be wary, it is very, very dangerous and not simply a convenient alternative.
I just cannot agree with that. Lots of posh people use Lidl now. The lowest denominaton is Farmfoods. Nothing wrong with their produce they sell but if the house you're looking to buy is near a Farmfoods. Don't.
@@janebaker966 It was a while ago since I first heard this generalisation, so things may have evened out a bit ince. I've never even heard of Farmfoods as a supermarket. Unless you mean Wiltshire Farmfoods or Oakhouse delivery services? In which case, my town has both of those too!
I grew up in Chew Magna. Now I live in London at 30 years old. I miss it to this day.
Dulverton can get a tad noisy at weekends and holidays from endless motorcycles bombing through
Wells is posh. Lots of independent shops in main streets. Good market several days of the week. Places of interest centred on the Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace. Good for a day out for plebs from Bristol, like me! Unlike Bath - ruined and full of retail chains.
Being a Gloucestershire born myself its nice to hear your Bristol accent pronouncing Baaath properly. You may be quite a few miles away but linguistically we ent far off like.
Langport is dire. I lived and worked there for a year and I've never felt so depressed! More so than living in Bridgwater where I'm currently stuck 😂😢
I lived around Bath for over 12 yrs and I definitely like From and Bradford on Avon, I moved to Trowbridge (which is shithole) and used to travel to Frome a bit, I like the historical streets and feel of it.
SO agree about Trowbridge!
No matter how much they do to improve Trowbridge it has a really depressing feel about it.
@@stellamariayates3776 yeah I returned there after two and half yrs living again because it's cheaper and I work in Bath. I know what you mean still too many drunkards and weird people all around.
I stayed in Porlock in June 2016 and found it to be a very beautiful place with lots of great walks in the woods and along the sea.
Bath is quite posh & beautiful and of course should of been county town of Somerset.
You can tell a posh person by the size of their television. Posh people have a little one in the corner in a bespoke handmade cupboard.
Pity at least one of those banks in Frome is closing in two weeks. NatWest shutting down in the middle of March ☹️
Bath is horrendous - full of students and tourists and ruined by city centre housing development. I avoid it like the plague.