British cities you like, but aren't the obvious ones

Another vote for Exeter and Winchester.

Chichester; lovely shops, marvellous cathedral, wonderful art gallery, fantastic theatre, not too big, near the sea.

He says not, Aldom! Which practice?

I hope you find somewhere nice to live. We also lived in Baschurch and Longden.

Oh yes Lichfield is beautiful. We are going there tonight.

Winchester and Canterbury. I love places with cathedrals.

Norwich, Newcastle, St. David's.

Lincoln’s cathedral is magnificent.

Salisbury and the cathedral lovely

Kate
Lichfield now has one of the Heartwood Inn pubs. I think it's been thete about a year.

It's called The Quill and Scholar and the food was pretty decent and service good when we went.
We occasionally meet relatives in a different one which is always reliable.

quillandscholarlichfield.com/

There's also a little "family" Italian on Bird Street which we have found good for a casual lunch or simple dinner. Good soup.

www.sorrisolichfield.co.uk/

The Michelin restaurant (can't remember the name) was sadly underwhelming.

Sorry if you already know these places!

Kate1949

Oh yes Lichfield is beautiful. We are going there tonight.

🙂 I was confirmed there.

If I can’t have London, I’ll go for St David’s, Norwich and Winchester.

Love Chester, lots of well-preserved medieval buildings, a magnificent cathedral, intact Roman city walls and a lovely riverside walk.
Also love Shrewsbury, with very similar medieval buildings and lots of history.

St.Davids

Ely is lovely for a daytrip - very small but lots to see & interesting shops. Wells is lovely. Kirkwall on Orkney because we had such a lovely stay. I've resolved to visit Winchester & Chichester next year.

Cardiff is a lovely city . I liked Birmingham too but haven’t gone there for sometime. I love York but was very disappointed in Harrogate, shabby and nothing there

Londonderry, I’ve only spent a short while there, more to see next time.
I’m fortunate to live near Winchester and worked within sight of the cathedral in my last job, so not far from Chichester either, lovely place.

I remember going to Londonderry and going to see Peter and Gordon. World Without Love was a good song but they weren't so good live!

Hull.
I live not far away and used to think it was a dump. My son moved there and I've spent a lot of time there. It's a lovely friendly northern city with a quaint old town and a posh marina.

RedRidingHood

Hull.
I live not far away and used to think it was a dump. My son moved there and I've spent a lot of time there. It's a lovely friendly northern city with a quaint old town and a posh marina.

I was very surprised when we visited Hull. The hotel wasn't great but the city was most interesting.

kittylester

He says not, Aldom! Which practice?

I hope you find somewhere nice to live. We also lived in Baschurch and Longden.

My dentist was at Bowdlers House, Town Walls. There used to be two partners, but one left to set up on his own. My dentist practised alone from then on.

I like Lichfield in Staffordshire. It has a cathedral and scribbled street called Market Street. My father, who was born in 1891 used to work as a stable hand at a hotel on Market Street. He had to listen out for the post horn which would sound when the horsedrawn carriage driver was about half a mile away. He had to have two replacement horses ready to replace the exhausted ones

Should read cobbled street, not scribbled street!

Sadly, my home City of Durham isn’t what it used to be, but the Cathedral is simply magnificent!
According to Bill Bryson, ‘the best cathedral on planet Earth’.

Lichfield is lovely I go every week. Centre of Birmingham, also good, not touched by the bin strike, Council dire though.

St Albans, and St David’s.