{"id":10872,"date":"2025-04-11T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10872\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:36:15","slug":"britains-15-poshest-towns-in-2025-according-to-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10872\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s 15 Poshest Towns in 2025, According to the Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh Grant, Bridgerton<\/a>, Pride and Prejudice, the Royals \u2014 if there\u2019s one\u00a0thing Britain is known for overseas, it\u2019s posh people. And those posh people all tend to hang out in the same posh places. You know, places with pristine cobbled streets, artisan bakeries, rowing clubs and big old Georgian mansions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While most of us could only dream of being able to afford a house in such places, we can at least visit for a few days to get a taste of how the other half live. Where exactly should you go for that? Well, after picking out the UK\u2019s 14 poshest suburbs<\/a>, the Telegraph<\/a> has\u00a0selected the 15 fanciest towns that a perfect to go and \u2018play at being posh for a while\u2019.<\/p>\n

Henley-on-Thames<\/strong>, just one hour from London,\u00a0was named the poshest of the lot. You can read more about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In second place was Bruton<\/strong> in Somerset, which the\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0describes as \u2018pretty as a picture\u2019. It gives special shoutouts to the high-end Hauser and Wirth art gallery on\u00a0Durslade Farm, the quietly luxurious Michelin star joint Osip and \u2018uber-swanky\u2019 new hotel The Newt in Somerset. Read Time Out\u2019s locally curated guide to Bruton here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The north Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate<\/strong> took third place. The paper said the town \u2018has had a reputation for being well-to-do since the 19th century\u2019 and its centre \u2018retains a refined air, with elegant buildings, a strong boutique shopping scene and classily traditional eateries.\u2019\u00a0World-famous tearoom Betty\u2019s was listed as a highlight here, alongside the Turkish Baths and the Royal Hall. Discover all the other best bits of Harrogate here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most places in the list\u00a0are in England, but\u00a0the seaside town of Penarth is in sixth place repping Wales<\/a> and St Andrews, full of \u2018dramatic ruins, medieval streets, wild coast and, of course, golf\u2019 (and a royal favourite<\/a>), ranked ninth for Scotland<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are the poshest towns in the UK, according to the\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire<\/li>\n

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  2. Bruton, Somerset<\/li>\n

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  3. Harrogate, North Yorkshire<\/li>\n

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  4. Salcombe, Devon<\/li>\n

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  5. Ludlow, Shropshire<\/li>\n

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  6. Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan<\/li>\n

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  7. Holt, Norfolk<\/li>\n

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  8. Marlow, Buckinghamshire<\/li>\n

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  9. St Andrews, Fife<\/li>\n

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  10. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire<\/li>\n

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  11. St Ives, Cornwall<\/li>\n

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  12. Stockbridge, Hampshire<\/li>\n

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  13. Stamford, Lincolnshire<\/li>\n

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  14. Wilmslow, Cheshire<\/li>\n

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  15. Aldeburgh, Suffolk\u00a0<\/li>\n

    \n<\/ol>\n

    You can read more about the\u00a0Telegraph\u2019s poshest places here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    ICYMI:\u00a0Three UK cities are among the best in the world for public transport, according to Time Out<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Plus:\u00a0Two UK destinations are the greatest places in the world in 2025, according to TIME Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant, Bridgerton, Pride and Prejudice, the Royals \u2014 if there\u2019s one\u00a0thing Britain is known for overseas, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,6419,393,4884,6420,1144,712,6417,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-10872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-categories-things-to-do","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news-city-life","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-things-to-do","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114319601448701351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}