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Having just seen a bit of scrape-the-barrel TV, "Britain's Favourite View", I thought about mine. I decided it has to be the view of Whitby from the top of Blue Bank, on the edge of the North Yorks Moors. When we moved there in 1966 I remember seeing that view of the small town, way below, with the harbour, the abbey and the sea and how fantastic it felt that I was really going to live there. It's still a beautiful sight, so many years later, and it still takes my breath away when I see it.

So that's number one for me. What's your favourite British view?

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the view from Porth Island, next to Porth Beach on the edge of Newquay, fabulous.:) funnily enough was going to have a bench put there with a plaque to my late missus, got no response from Newquay council, so the bench was placed in me daughters garden.so it aint just HBC thats rubbish.:D;)

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I've got a few that i like. Cant say whats my favourite because i like them all for different reasons. Coming back over the tops from Blackburn looking over towards Burnley the view is brilliant especially on a nice day. Flying into Belfast City Airport and seeing the massive cranes of Harland & Wolffe and belfast loch, standing at the top of tarn hows in the lake district and looking down it, up round windermere and ambleside, looking up at edinburgh castle. Thing is there is so much nice countryside and views in this country who can really pick their favourite one?

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Looking down Little Blackburn Road towards the Market Hall and the Town Hall on a wet day. It can be evocative in the right light.

Every time I go up a mountain I see my favourite view, but it constantly changes with every step.

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The view from the Clayton End towards the coppice.

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Just got back from Loch Lomond. Some outstanding views up there.

I'd have to go with something along the lines of Wynonie's post though! Nice one!
Give me the Crown Ground over anywhere, anyday (but make it a Saturday :D)

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The view from up high on Ossy moors, looking out over the town, and to all the hills in the distance.:)

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Looking across the bay from the cliffs at Culver Down and seeing Sandown and Shanklin on the Isle Of Wight.

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Is this the thread your looking for Junetta?

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the views across treaddur bay..angelsey
cant wait for another peep

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i see my favorite view every day ..........i stand on my back doorstep & i see before me some lovely views over to gt,harwood, ingelton, then onto pendle hill i love it, i used to see most of ossy too but a new school now interupts that view.........i lived on angelsey for some 15yrs ..yes some lovely views but nowt as preciuos (sp?) as home .

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we went to whitby a few months ago and took some pics,one was from the hill leading from the abby to the town,i will see if i can add the pic

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would have to say ...Haslingden Grane...reservoirs of Calf Hey, Ogden and Holden Wood, often take the kids to go on a nice walk:D, the scenes are beautiful and would recommend the walk to anyone;)
http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/m/26/262403.jpg

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My favourite view is the one that I am looking at.

It means that I am still alive to see.

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Mine has to be most of the beautiful views in Wales..... some are absolutely breath taking.

These are Holyhead

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Some from Anglesey too ..... we went last month!! I will deffo be going back for some more of these views

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south stack lighthouse...brill view from the top
hell of a lot a steps down

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This is a great view Mez although my first thought also involved Mumzy Mez. I followed Mez through a shortcut from her house to the highway to Manchester. We travelled these really tight roads with rock walls along much of the way. The views of the country side with garzing livestock and old homesites was brilliant!

Brian

I guess the view from the London Eye weren't too bad either!:p

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The view from the aeroplane window when you're above the clouds. So blissful.

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I don't know about that qualifying as a great "British view" Redash. I trust you're not disparaging the beauty of the Britsih Isles?:D I'd admit that'd be the best view when flying over something like Newark, New Jersey:p (sorry Billcat)

Brian

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Thats the one beechy!!

We actually walked all the way down and all the way back up again!!!

It proved how un fit I was lol, I was shattered when I got back to the top.

It is A lovely view!! But I didn't enjoy walking down the steps, as the wall on either side isn't very high, and I am petrified of heights!!

I just clung onto the kids all the way down and back up!! :o

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Apart from the views anywhere around Ullswater - my favourite view was from the back window of our old house on Cranbourne Drive -there was a space between the houses on Dill Hall Lane, over the allotments you could see right across to the horizon created by the hills -there is a massive oak tree up there which changes shape with the seasons (looks like a steam train with smoke in the summer and a witch on a broomstick in winter , or so i thought when i was little!). I think it's near where the Shepherd's Rest pub is....

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Which view did win the "Britains Favour View" does any one know?

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It sounds like you get homesick sometimes :)
I had an exhusband whose family lived in Ferrara - I miss my regular trips to Italy.
(the grass is always greener.......)

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From the east gate of Fort Henry, on the glacis, overlooking the beginning of the St Lawrence River with the Thousand Islands; and if you look west, a beautiful view of Lake Ontario. Views great at sunset, and especially fantastic during a night thunderstorm when the lightning provides the illumination. Or on a motorcycle, riding on hwy. 60 thro Algonqin Park ... breathtaking!

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Got it in one Margaret! Haven't been over to Accy for about 4 and a half years now -mum and dad sold up and moved to Tenerife when my sister emigrated to NZ. So i get summer hols in Tenerife now too (there isn't much green grass there!)- but you can't beat Accy on a rainy day in autumn, or bonfire night! My boys both visited Accy a lot when they were younger and when we get a cold day here in October with rain on the wind from the north-west they say it's just like England.
These days everyone seems to knock so much about England but there is a lot that is unique and easy to miss...read my post on "Eating with your fingers" to find out one!!

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Just seen your post Eric -my husband was over in Canada last Nov. for the Winter Show in Toronto (Dairy cows!) and did a tour of a number of famous farms out there -he was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the scenery -didn't like the food much (typical Italian!) but said the people were very friendly and hospitable...

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I think it was Ullswater. It was one of the lakes for sure.

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Italians are like that about food ... but don't think that my buddy Mario Gencarelli would agree, he and is family have been in the restaurant business in Kingston for a couple of generations. It must have been the moose burgers, or the bannock, that put him off:D And I have to agree that most Canadians are really friendly ... but watch out when they put on the skates, grab a stick, and catch sight of a puck:eek:

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It was the view of Wastwater that won

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Standing outside my front door looking down the street are the railway arches, that is my favourite view. In fact i have a painting of it in my living room and it's always been admired.

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Got to agree with you Garinda, I especially love the view of Ossie from Green Haworth. Outside the UK, I'd have to say the view of the Canadian Rockies whilst relaxing in the Banff hotsprings - bliss!

Stanleybabe :)

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Beautiful views anywhere in the Rockies ... relax in the dome car of the trans continental with a beer ... or drive thro any of the passes: the Rogers is great, but I prefer the Kicking Horse Pass. And at the opposite extreme, a drive thro the prairies on the Trans Canada thro southern Saskatchewan ... land of the living skies, from Medicine Hat to the Manitoba border.

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If you ever fancy a house swap please give me a nod.:)