Favourite small town or village

Another vote for Knaresborough. It’s just as fancyflowers described. It’s somewhere I think I could live.

Oakham, Rutland and Tenterden, Kent

Ogmore by Sea in the Vale of Glamorgan. Beautiful beach. We haven't been for a year or two so it's about time we returned.

Conwy North Wales

Solva, West Wales. Full of happy memories for me.

Beverley in East Yorkshire. Two beautiful churches and wonderful shops.

Kirkby lonsdale ....an hour from where I live ....we camp there 4 to 5 times every summer.....my happy place ....so beautiful

So many gorgeous places right here in our own country.
I must add Hebden Bridge and Skipton.

Yes, Lympstone is lovely, but don’t tell everyone!!

Chipping Camden in the Cotswolds, also there Bourton on the Water and Burford.
Lacock in Wiltshire, they do a lot of period films there.
Lymington in the New Forest
Stamford in Lincolnshire

Lewes also famous for hosting Thomas Paine at The White Hart - recently renovated - who helped start the American revolt against the British and who wrote amongst other stuff “z
The Rights of Man”

Steyning has and has had a number of celebrities living there. Probably the most famous was Joan Plowright and Lawrence Olivier. The children’s author Julia Donaldson lives there now.

Youlgreve in the Derbyshire Dales.

youlgrave.org.uk

In a most - if not the most lovely part of the Derbyshire Dales, small, but vibrant culturally as well as traditional farming country. There are also prehistoric evidences of settlements and standing stones.

I'll never forget their well dressing at the end of Covid.

sinfin.net/welldressing/photo.php?year=2022&id=132

It was internationally culturally inclined (as well as the usual brass band and dancing.

Correct initial spelling, its Youlgrave not greve.

Arnside in Cumbria is a very pretty village by the River Kent.
We just like to visit it for the views and the climb up to Arnside Knott, but I like it even better since I learned about its history on Villages by the Sea presented by Archaeologist Ben Robinson.

Narberth, Wales. Lovely individual shops.

Thirsk, North Yorkshire or Criccieth in Wales.

Cartmel in Cumbria, gorgeous village, lovely priory, very good eateries (including a 3 starred Michelin restaurant) and a race course! We are there at present.

Clonakilty and Hebden Bridge for me.

I might have included Porthdinllaen 60 years ago when we had no electricity there... but it was just a hamlet then, and never busy.

And now I want more than a pub and the beach - although it really is very pretty.

So many lovely towns and villages I've visited and agree with...Rye, Tavistock, Dartmouth, Padstow, Charmouth, Tenterden, Bourton on the water. I'd also nominate Whitstable, very picturesque, many independent shops (at least when I last visited some years ago) and if Wetherspoons is your thing The Peter Cushing pub has lovely ladies toilets .

Another vote for Chipping Campden, also Stow on the Wold.

Nearly forgot, Walberswick in Suffolk, the oft called 'poor relation' to Southwold.

Oh yes Stow on the Wold is lovely.

My list of places to visit is growing, some are relatively close to me but I've never been.

Knutsford, Cheshire, Cranford by one of my heroines,
Elizabeth Gaskell and she is buried there.

Great Tew near my late aunt and godmother’s cottage where I used to stay, although the area has changed so much, becoming so desirable to Londoners.

Lovely thread. There are some lovely little villages in Warwickshire as I remember but can't now name them. Thatched roofs etc.