Sunday Times best places to live in the UK report 2024

Not sure where to settle in the UK? Take a look at the Sunday Times' annual roundup of the best places to live for ideas.

Full article: https://www.thetimes.com/best-places-to-live

2024's overall winner was North Berwick, Scotland.

A lot of places you might have thought would be on this list, like Cambridge and Edinburgh, lost out because housing prices have gone so nuts there. 

North and Northeast

• Winner: Leeds 

• Boston Spa, West Yorkshire

• Heaton, Newcastle

• Nether Edge, Sheffield

• Saltaire, West Yorkshire

• Skipton, North Yorkshire

• Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear

• Yorkshire Wolds

East of England

• Winner: Wivenhoe, Essex

• Ingatestone, Essex

• Norwich, Norfolk

• Saffron Walden, Essex

• Sheringham, Norfolk

• The Shelfords, Cambridgeshire

• The Shotley Peninsula, Suffolk

London

• Winner: Clerkenwell

• Crouch End

• Forest Hill

• Highams Park

• Little Venice

• London Fields

• Wimbledon Village

Midlands

• Winner: Stirchley, Birmingham

• Buxton, Derbyshire

• Knowle and Dorridge, Solihull

• Market Harborough, Leicestershire

• Shropshire Hills

• Stamford, Lincolnshire

• Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire

Northwest

• Stockport, Greater Manchester

• Christleton, Cheshire

• Kendal, Cumbria

• Knutsford, Cheshire

• Prestwich, Greater Manchester

• Ribble Valley, Lancashire

• Sefton Park, Liverpool

Scotland

• Winner: West End, Dundee

• Dunkeld, Perthshire

• East Linton, East Lothian

• Falkland, Fife

• Kerrera, Inner Hebrides

• Leith, Edinburgh

• Newlands, Glasgow

• North Berwick, East Lothian

Southeast

• Winner: Folkestone, Kent

• Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

• Farnham, Surrey

• Hove, Brighton & Hove

• Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

• Sevenoaks, Kent

• St Albans, Hertfordshire

• Stockbridge, Hampshire

• Wadhurst, East Sussex

• Winchester, Hampshire

Southwest

• Winner: Sherborne, Dorset

• Cirencester, Gloucestershire

• Clevedon, Somerset

• Dartmouth, Devon

• Exmouth, Devon

• Falmouth, Cornwall

• Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

• Tisbury, Wiltshire

Wales

• Winner: Abergavenny, Monmouthshire

• Cardigan, Ceredigion

• Conwy

• Mumbles, Swansea

• Narberth, Pembrokeshire

• Presteigne, Powys

• Vale of Glamorgan