What is a beautiful place in UK that does not get enough credit?
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Durham for me. It is a nice clean city with good food and some excellent tourist attractions. Not often mentioned as a regular place to visit.
Dennyisthepisslord@reddit
South Yorkshire in general. Nice small villages with stone walls, the peaks on the edge of Sheffield and lots of rolling hills
acatalepsy@reddit
Gower
spynie55@reddit
The Moray Firth
cragglerock93@reddit
Relevant username.
G30fff@reddit
Rutland Glastonbury Tor
theeternal_420@reddit
The lakes
Jimmy90081@reddit
Did you read the actual question? Woosh…
nitram1000@reddit
Depends which lakes I guess.
Jimmy90081@reddit
In the UK, when somebody says ‘the lakes’ as a location, it’s generally expected and assumed that they mean the Lake District, Cumbria - a beautiful place in the UK, an area of natural beauty, and an area which absolutely is mentioned as a regular place to visit getting plenty of credit. If they meant somewhere else they should be more specific.
So, again, woosh…
nitram1000@reddit
I know what they meant, was trying to justify their comment.
Whoosh back at ya.
Jimmy90081@reddit
Hmmm, trying to justify a comment that cannot be justified. What are we… German!?
nitram1000@reddit
It can be justified, I just did.
Don’t get the German reference. Whoosh.
Jimmy90081@reddit
I'd say you failed entirely to justify anything. The German reference is subtle, and thats ok :)
nitram1000@reddit
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. I provided a 'tongue-in-cheek' alternative explanation (whoosh), albeit unlikely, for their suggestion. You said yourself that the term refers 'generally' to the Lake District, so not exclusively then. There's your justification.
I initially assumed your German reference related to their reasoning for the WW's, then thought that's far too weak it must be something more relevant and/or humorous. Turns out it was neither.
Jimmy90081@reddit
Nah, poor reasoning bro. Whoosh Whoosh.
nitram1000@reddit
The logic is all there, if you’re not able to follow then that’s something you can work on.
Jimmy90081@reddit
The original question:
"What is a beautiful place in UK that does not get enough credit?" - obviously 'the lakes' refers to the Lake District, and that clearly is a place that does get credit, lots of it. Any justification of that location as being 'not enough credit' you are trying to give is irrelevant as it absolutely does not meet the brief of the question. If you think it does, or the lakes means something other than the Lake District in the UK, then your critical thinking skills need a lot of development.
If I ask "What beautiful food in the UK does not get enough credit?" and somebody says "Sunday dinner". Obviously, that is referencing a Roast. You would argue its something else, a Quiche maybe, because not all Sunday dinners are Roasts... duh. Clearly that is not the implied by answer though, and the meaning of the comment, and that you are just being dim or opaque on purpose, deliberately being unclear or evasive because you know what you say is just buffoonery.
nitram1000@reddit
Comprehension clearly isn’t your strong point, something else to be added to your list for self-development.
I’ve not suggested that the Lake District doesn’t get any, or enough credit. You can argue with yourself about this all you like since it’s not a point I even touched upon. Whoosh.
However I did suggest that there’s a chance, however small, that ‘the lakes’ could refer to somewhere else. In which case it could meet the brief. Something you yourself confirmed when you wrote that the term only ‘generally’ refers to the Lake District. If this were to be the case, then it certainly could be somewhere that doesn’t get enough credit.
Are you always this much fun?
Jimmy90081@reddit
in a UK-wide context, it specifically means what people naturally expect: the Lake District. Not some other random location. If they meant something different, they would say so explicitly. By its nature, that makes everything you’re arguing, frankly, a load of bollocks. It’s like saying “Next week I’m going to the O2”, nobody thinks that means visiting the O2 phone company headquarters, do they? "Oh, but they might" - go suck a lemon.
nitram1000@reddit
Since there are over 40,000 lakes in the UK there's a chance that they may be referring to some of these. That was the only point I was making. Whoosh.
It's hardly a unique term across the entire UK to refer to some local bodies of water as 'the lakes'.
Single?
Jimmy90081@reddit
If it were some local obscure body of water..... you.... would.... not... say... the... lakes....
How do you not get that? By nature of saying 'the lakes' you mean a common accepted universal agreed upon THING, not an obscure reference to something else UNKNOWN.
Wow.
nitram1000@reddit
You might not say that, though you can't assume all Redditors think like you. Let me give you an example...
A Norfolk angler is heading out for a days fishing, 'I'm just meeting Bob down at the lakes' he says to his wife as he leaves the house laden with gear. Do you think he means The Lake District, or the well-known fishing lakes near to where he lives?
I refer you once again to your own words, that the lakes are 'generally...assumed to mean the Lake District'. 'Generally', so not exclusively. See how you're tying yourself up in knots here?
The point of this post is to discover those very places that are perhaps a little obscure or unknown, so if someone was suggesting such a place it would make perfect sense. How do you not get that?
Quinn_27@reddit
Knaresborough
Forest of Bowland
Rutland
Dark
Harris
kotare78@reddit
Forest of Bowland is great, loads of amazing restaurants nearby too. Just don't expect a forest!
Quinn_27@reddit
There’s some good mountain biking routes around there
BareObsessionXO@reddit
get yourself on a road trip and do the northcoast500 in Scotland. You the most beautiful beaches and complete peace and tranquility. xx
kotare78@reddit
I think that's pretty well known nowadays. The marketing of NC500 has been a victim of its own success. I used to go before Scottish tourism invented the term and it was always so quiet, my brother went on my recommendation and said it was bumper to bumper.
BareObsessionXO@reddit
when we done it, it wasn't too bad but always best to avoid holiday seasons. xx
Gadgie2023@reddit
Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
Historic, quiet and beautiful.
Quinn_27@reddit
Don’t tell people!
Gadgie2023@reddit
Don’t tell me, tell Robson Green!
Own-Writer8244@reddit
I love this part of the country. Bamburgh Beach is lovely.
Formal_Produce3759@reddit
Alnwick.
Otherwise_Fly_2263@reddit
Can confirm. We’ve been here all week, it’s lovely. Amazing castle and cool town.
Gadgie2023@reddit
Overrated, for me.
Morpeth and Corbridge are better.
Formal_Produce3759@reddit
Don’t forget Lillidorei!
nitram1000@reddit
It can be justified, I just did.
Don’t get the German reference. Whoosh.
nitram1000@reddit
I know what they meant, was trying to justify their comment.
Whoosh back at ya.
kotare78@reddit
Dumfries and Galloway, The Gower and Northumberland spring to mind.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
Wigan.
People presume it's a post-industrial shithole but actually it's fantastic. Relatively cheap, excellent internet, good links to Manchester and Liverpool and on the west coast mainline, M6 and near the M62, vast amounts of green space including a nature reserve stretching almost to the centre, friendly locals.
nitram1000@reddit
Think you’ve misunderstood the question. OP is asking for beautiful places, being near the M62 and having good internet is a strange qualification.
Farscape_rocked@reddit
A redditor who doesn't think gigabit fibre to door is beautiful? How odd.
theeternal_420@reddit
And fantastic kebabs
Elongulation420@reddit
Having just got back from Rye I’d suggest Rye. Definitely touristy and pretty but, even in Britain, many people have never heard of it which makes me wonder how the tourists are hearing about it
Own-Writer8244@reddit
The tourists have read the Mapp and Lucia books.
Elongulation420@reddit
I’d hope so but I have a very low expectation of that. I’m 61 and my wife had never heard of them. We’re both fairly well read and I love the original TV series.
Al89nut@reddit
South Shields
Subhuman40k@reddit
Said like a true sand dancer
JBEqualizer@reddit
Northumberland and County Durham.
This is the view I regularly choose to have on the school run of a morning.
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Unusual_residue@reddit
No idea what this means in reality. I can say that I like Telford.
S4h1l_4l1@reddit
My bed, work wants me to leave it every Monday - Friday at 6-7am 😢
Dailymailflagshagger@reddit
Come to Sunny Tunny.
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
North Essex / West Suffolk villages and market towns.
Prettier than cotswolds imho.
GodsBicep@reddit
I have family in Cavendish/Sudbury way. Stunning place
bonjajr@reddit
Burnley
D1789@reddit
Staffordshire.
I’m proud to live in Staffordshire because there are some bloody beautiful places throughout the county.
AnyBug1039@reddit
Shropshire is also gorgeous.
Places like Bridgenorth, Ironbridge, Shrewsbury.
beeshorse@reddit
Heathrow departures
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