{"id":630048,"date":"2025-12-13T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630048\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:16:37","slug":"inside-the-most-christmassy-town-in-the-uk-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630048\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the most Christmassy town in the UK | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the most Christmassy town in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Bowness-on-Windermere, a picturesque town situated in the heart of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lake-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake District, <\/a>has just been crowned the UK\u2019s most festive town or city, according to a survey by Betway, judging locations by festive-themed criteria such as average December snowfall and temperature and the number of cosy cafes.<\/p>\n<p>With an average snowfall of 84mm in December, a mean temperature of 4C and more than 30 cafes and pubs, this Cumbria town definitely has all the makings of a winter wonderland.<\/p>\n<p>But is it the best? The Independent spoke to locals, councillors and tourists to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this the most Christmassy town in the UK? Bowness-on-Windermere, a picturesque town situated in the heart of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-630048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115711979264525602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630048","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=630048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}