Britain's Best City

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

liverpool is a great city

 

[Luke Imp]

18. Lincoln

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C&B Opinion: In the middle of nowhere

Description: Previously named Lindum Colonia, meaning Lindum's colon, because of the smell of the place, Lincoln can trace its roots back to the Iron Age. Lincoln is the birth place of the tank (the big gun on wheels, not a fish's house) and made many during the war. The city is split in to two areas by the River Witham known locally as Uphill and Downhill confirming Lincolnshire folk are as boring as their county.

Famous People: George Boole, William Byrd

C&B Fact: In a weird twist of fate, the man responsible for the city's water supply in 1904, Liam Kirk, was killed by Typhoid from polluted drinking water along with 130 others.

Can't speak for other locals, but I've never heard anyone call it 'Uphill and Downhill'! Usually High Street and The Bail.

We have a copy of Magna Carta, too, but there's something about ours that's special but I can't for the life of me think what it is. Tonnes and tonnes of history in the City ranging from, as you say, the tank, Lincoln Castle, Cathedral, the prison within the Castle grounds, Steep Hill etc.

We're the only place in the UK that has a railway running straight through the middle of it, I think. That's fun and games when the barrier comes down about 5 times an hour all day!

Being local, I probably take most of what Lincoln has to offer for granted but it's certainly somewhere that I'd look to visit if I wasn't.

During the summer, we usually start our night outs in the Bailgate at the Magna Carta pub and you can sit/stand outside there on a lovely evening with the Cathedral one side and Lincoln Castle the other.

 

[smat]

We have a copy of Magna Carta, too, but there's something about ours that's special but I can't for the life of me think what it is.

It's the only version made with a 3D printer.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

i don't think that's true, mate

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Can't speak for other locals, but I've never heard anyone call it 'Uphill and Downhill'! Usually High Street and The Bail.

We have a copy of Magna Carta, too, but there's something about ours that's special but I can't for the life of me think what it is. Tonnes and tonnes of history in the City ranging from, as you say, the tank, Lincoln Castle, Cathedral, the prison within the Castle grounds, Steep Hill etc.

We're the only place in the UK that has a railway running straight through the middle of it, I think. That's fun and games when the barrier comes down about 5 times an hour all day!

Being local, I probably take most of what Lincoln has to offer for granted but it's certainly somewhere that I'd look to visit if I wasn't.

During the summer, we usually start our night outs in the Bailgate at the Magna Carta pub and you can sit/stand outside there on a lovely evening with the Cathedral one side and Lincoln Castle the other.

I hope you're not questioning my 100% true, certainly not sourced from Wikipedia FACTS.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

We have a copy of Magna Carta, too, but there's something about ours that's special but I can't for the life of me think what it is.

It's the only one called The Magna Carta?

 

[mowgli]

Referring back to your earlier reply C&B, yes there are parts of Essex that are nice, but then again, for every Colchester, you have a Clacton (or Jaywick).

Cornwall has a lot of stunning scenery, but Redruth is a shithole and were it a city, I would have voted for it instead of Leeds.
My home town is no oil painting either to be fair

Agree regarding Redruth it's a shithole where even the churches are boarded up,nice pasties though.

 

[Luke Imp]

Apparently Lincoln is the only place in the world where you can find the original copies of the 1215 Magna Carta and the 1217 Charter of Forest (one of only two surviving copies). Anyway, Magna Carta...

"Only four 1215 copies of the document survive today, and Lincoln’s parchment has been in the city ever since it was sealed by King John. Indeed, Lincoln's copy has instructions to deliver to 'Lincolnia' written on the back - the only surviving copy with such instructions."

You'll sleep better now, knowing that.

 

[Whitechapel]

35. Plymouth

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C&B Opinion: Too far away, strange accent

Description: Situated in Devon but on the boundary with Cornwall, Plymouth gained its city status in 1928. It has a population of 261k but because of years of inbreeding, there are only about 15 distinct families there. There is a Wrigley's factory there and produces over 3m packets a day.

Famous People: Dawn French, Sharron Davies, Scott of the Antarctic

C&B Fact: Remains from humans (6 fingered, of course), hyenas and even rhinoceri were found in a cave there in 1886.

Plymouth is an absolute fucking dump.

 

[johnnytodd]

nice ale in here....LOL

 

[hodge]

29. Wells

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C&B Opinion: Never been, looks lovely

Description: Well, well, well, England's smallest city, Wells is in Somerset and gets its name from 3 wells dedicated to Saint Andrew. Close by are the Wookey Hole Caves where Chewbaca lives when he's not fighting Mr. Vader. Beeching's axe fell on Wells and is strange in that it has no rail link.

Famous People: Harry Patch, Kris Marshall

C&B Fact: The clock on the cathedral is considered to be the second oldest in Britain, with the original works made around 1390. Good old British engineering there.

What no mention for Hot Fuzz...?

The clock was stolen from Glastonbury Abbey after Henry VIII decided to burn it down but the cathedral refuses to return it to Glastonbury.

Good, screw Glastonbury

 

[mnb089mnb]

nice ale in here....LOL

Lager's flat though.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

14. Cardiff

C&B Opinion: Cardiff??? CARDIFF???

Description: Cardiff has been Wales' capital for 60 years and is in Glamorgan. Caerdydd or Caerdyf are the Welsh names for the place proving that the Welsh throw constanants at everything. Cardiff has a varied linguistic heritage with Welsh, English, Latin, Norse, and Norman French being spoken at different periods. Today's locals use a combination of all to concoct their gibberish. Doctor Who is also filmed there proving that nothing good comes from Cardiff.

Famous People: Roald Dahl, Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church

C&B Fact: The oldest record shop in the world is in Cardiff. Spiller's dates back to 1894.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

13. Truro

C&B Opinion: Stunning part of the country

Description: Truro is mainland Britain's most southernly city and also Cornwall's only city. The name could derive from tri-veru meaning three rivers but nobody actually knows. If you visit Truro, be sure to have a Cornish cream tea, which is exactly the same as a Devonshire cream tea no matter what the halfwits say. A royal mint used to operate in Truro to pay the troops until it moved to Exeter in 1646.

Famous People: Will Skuse, Henry Bone

C&B Fact: Truro cathedral was only completed in 1910 and has three spires.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Truro is also the only city in the UK beginning with the letter T #funfact
Placed 5th on my list, lovely part of the country.

 

[Techno Natch]

Cardiffs a good City the few times that I've visited and the Techno scene is currently strong which gives it some bonus points.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

12. Brighton & Hove

C&B Opinion: Hello sailor

Description: Brighton and Hove cheats its way to 12th place by being two places but one city. I'm sure everyone voted for Brighton and not Hove so I'll forget the latter. Brighton is the shorter form of Brighthelmstone and is a place most known for being the gay capital of the UK. Unsurprisingly, it is the end of the route for the London to Brighton bike ride each year which just adds to the usual population of blokes wearing skin-tight clothing with a sore arse...
It's actually quite a nice place for a seaside resort.

Famous People: Amanda Redman, Rizzle Kicks (fuck knows)

C&B Fact: More Jedi's live in Brighton than anywhere else. Fucking morons.

 

[johnnytodd]

fuckin Brighton?

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Here we have the final city before we reach the top 10.

11. Cambridge

C&B Opinion: The second of mine to fall, a beautiful city

Description: Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire, on the River Cam, is the higher rated of the two traditional university cities. It's a picturesque place and a punt down the river on a summers day is divine. Obviously well known for the university, it has had a hand in 89 nobel prizes and 29 in physics alone. Interestingly, it has a 10% higher average population of higher earners compared to the national average. Well lah-de-dah.

Famous People: Olivier Newton-John, Richard Attenborough.

C&B Fact: The first game of Association Football was played here.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

That's your lot for today - tune in tomorrow for the start of the top 10.

 

[Alty]

If it's my hometown of Liverpool i am willing to offer all voters a beer tour of the city.











Starting at the Lisbon.

Is that still a lesbian bar?

 

[Alty]

Some weird results here IMHO. Glasgow seems too low. Strange that Cambridge was so much higher than Oxford when the two are so similar.

Delighted to see Birmingham well down the list.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

cambridge is boring as shit

 

[JaseTheVillain]

cambridge is boring as shit

You have something in common with it then.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

aha! great banter there, my friend

 

[Aberstone]

Cardiff was my 2nd place vote, an awesome city... so much to do and the best nightlife of any city I've been to.

 

[Pliny Harris]

T'was me.

Sheffield and Salford are the first of my top 5 gone.

Salford purely got the vote as I love Manchester....so if I cant live there it'd be Salford. Really nice place since its been redeveloped a lot tbf

Glad you agree really. Salford's an odd one really. As a city it's a one-horse town so maligned that it has free parking in its centre, but it's one that leads straight onto Deansgate, one of the most popular parades in Manchester. That's its eastern edge, and it then stretches out west until it touches Warrington. I love it and am proud of it because it's in my blood and I currently spend so much time there. It's such a muddle of building projects but any research into the place shows how distinct it is. There were collieries in the city centre up until the 1950s but it was the first city to go smokeless just 20 years later, its streets were researched by Marx and Engels, the latter famously describing it as "The Classic Slum" for its deep, uncompromising poverty. Peel Park is this country's first public park, and the Salford Museum next door was its first public library. Industry has always been huge and ahead of the rest of the country. "MediaCity" and the docks is both a buzzing and peaceful place to be, imo, and hopefully, over the years, the wider area will become a concentrated area of attractions rather than a pretty disparate one. All in all, Salford's there for a reason.

Having lived in Leeds for four years, it's a pleasure to me to travel around Manchester, and there's honestly no comparison. The way the whole city is, the way it's built, the humour of the people and its individuality is miles ahead. Get caught in city centre traffic and at least you have some nice sights to look at before you move off. Leeds city centre is about the size of Halifax's, surrounded by mundane, lairy suburbs like an oversized allotment vegetable that has been allowed to go completely rotten, and it can come back to me when it finds itself an orchestra.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Point of order C&B, a Cornish cream tea is markedly different to a Devon cream tea, as i found to my cost last year !!!3. Truro

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C&B Opinion: Stunning part of the country

Description: Truro is mainland Britain's most southernly city and also Cornwall's only city. The name could derive from tri-veru meaning three rivers but nobody actually knows. If you visit Truro, be sure to have a Cornish cream tea, which is exactly the same as a Devonshire cream tea no matter what the halfwits say. A royal mint used to operate in Truro to pay the troops until it moved to Exeter in 1646.

Famous People: Will Skuse, Henry Bone

C&B Fact: Truro cathedral was only completed in 1910 and has three spires.

 

[Aber gas]

Glad you agree really. Salford's an odd one really. As a city it's a one-horse town so maligned that it has free parking in its centre, but it's one that leads straight onto Deansgate, one of the most popular parades in Manchester. That's its eastern edge, and it then stretches out west until it touches Warrington. I love it and am proud of it because it's in my blood and I currently spend so much time there. It's such a muddle of building projects but any research into the place shows how distinct it is. There were collieries in the city centre up until the 1950s but it was the first city to go smokeless just 20 years later, its streets were researched by Marx and Engels, the latter famously describing it as "The Classic Slum" for its deep, uncompromising poverty. Peel Park is this country's first public park, and the Salford Museum next door was its first public library. Industry has always been huge and ahead of the rest of the country. "MediaCity" and the docks is both a buzzing and peaceful place to be, imo, and hopefully, over the years, the wider area will become a concentrated area of attractions rather than a pretty disparate one. All in all, Salford's there for a reason.

Having lived in Leeds for four years, it's a pleasure to me to travel around Manchester, and there's honestly no comparison. The way the whole city is, the way it's built, the humour of the people and its individuality is miles ahead. Get caught in city centre traffic and at least you have some nice sights to look at before you move off. Leeds city centre is about the size of Halifax's, surrounded by mundane, lairy suburbs like an oversized allotment vegetable that has been allowed to go completely rotten, and it can come back to me when it finds itself an orchestra.

Wow, that is absolute nonsense, I lived in Leeds for years and Manc for a bit and I don't get your comparison at all. I found Leeds welcoming, culturally superior, cooler, far less obnoxious , cheaper, more aesthetically pleasing and generally less bloody pleased with itself than Manchester. Add to that it gets better bands, ( used) to have better clubs and the curry is better I have to say you are wrong .

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Let me sum that up in one word.

Opinions.

That said, having only been a visitor to both, I have to side with Pliny here. Manchester is a better place to be than Leeds.