American Reacts to the UK's Beautiful Seaside Towns

As an American I have never seen all of the UK's beautiful towns. Today I am very interested in learning the UK's best seaside towns. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[avrilbutcher]

The whole of the uk is surrounded by beautiful beaches it is an island after all !! Cornwall and Devon are amazing

[stephenlee]

Hi Tyler,
Some rambling answers to some of your questions:
Anywhere in the UK is no more than 70 miles from the Sea/Ocean/Coast.
The houses with plants growing on them, the effect of this is to cool the building in summer.
Most of the Seaside towns in England (UK probably) were at some point for fishing, although may be more as trading ports (such as Rye) or Defensive, such as Dartmouth, but Rye also.
It is difficult to show/picture a seaside town to its best as the views are either of the sea and shore or the town, unless your view point is from a boat or more recently a drone.
Piers are basically a way of getting from the land to vessel on the water, they can also protect vessels from poor weather, and protect the shoreline/beach.

Most large English cities are on water in some way, either the coast, a large (by UK standards) river or canals.
Castles are not randomly placed near/in major cities, castles are at strategically important places, these places tend to grow into large towns and cities.
Generally we preserve our important old buildings, other than Henry VIII, who did like to knock them about a bit, I think Cromwell also did some vandalism too.

[JJ-ofir]

There are many quiet coves with beautiful beaches, small villages with lovely beaches all around the UK. You have only just begun your journey. Enjoyed your reaction today. All the best to you.

[suzistardust]

Many Americans know Swanage in Dorset. Swanage is where many American soldiers lived and trained before they left Swanage by train and later for France and their the attack on Omaha Beach in Normandy on the morning of D-Day in 1944.
Many of the American survivors of D-Day regularly come back with their families to visit Swanage. Some of my family live in Swanage and I have many a great time visiting them.
Also, I have just returned from visiting Tenby on the Pembroke coast in Wales and it has a stunning Atlantic coast with seals, puffins, and castles.

[sallycostello]

I can't believe none of the beaches in Cornwall were featured 😔

[DerekArmsden]

The reason the beaches are deserted and there's nobody in the water is because IT'S F*CKING FREEZING! As an Australian, I'm very comfortable wading out into the ocean. The only hurdle might be when it gets to crutch height and you need to brace yourself. I went to a Scottish beach in the middle of "Summer" and the moment my toes hit the North Sea I screamed like a baby!

[JacquelineFellows-ho]

Tyler, you need to do a video of beaches and towns solely in Cornwall, England, there are dozens of secluded beaches and beautiful little towns that are worth exploring.

[tonyeden]

Tyler, I have mentioned this before but the max distance to the coast from anywhere in the UK is 72 miles in a straight line. It may be more to navigate round towns and bills but we are always within a modest drive or train or bus from the sea. Virtually all seaside towns will be "resorts" to one degree of another and day trips are entirely feasible for us. The coast line may be towering rocky cliffs, curving sandy beaches, small fishing boat harbours, big towns, small villages, low flat countryside and everything in between. Some will be peaceful and quiet others will have funfairs. Some like Southampton will have major cruise ship terminals. Others will be ferry ports such as Portsmouth and Dover for sea crossings to Europe. Some will be ferry ports to the Scottish islands, to the Channel Islands, to the Isle of Man, to Northern Ireland and to Ireland. Ferries to the almost-tropical Isle of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall. Others will have grown up around Elizabethan times of piracy and then smuggling. And all will have fish and chips of course.

[oldman]

Being an island, we have beaches and sea views all the way round!!!

[weejackrussell]

Swanage is the name of the town, Dorset is the county.
Other examples:
Blackpool, Lancashire, England,
Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, (*see note below)
Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales
Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland, etc.
Like saying :
Chicago, Cook, Illinois,
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Ocean City, Worcester, Maryland.

(Note *Usually if the name of the place is the county town, we don't mention the county, e.g. we don't say Derby, Derbyshire as it goes without saying! So, everyone would know that Ayr is in Ayrshire.)

The reason you haven't heard of Swanage is because we have so many resorts all along the coast of England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.

Our seaside resorts used to be the main place everyone went for their holidays in the UK until about the 1960s and 1970s when people started going to the Mediterranean in order to be guaranteed good weather, for their main holiday. Consequently a lot of the UK resorts got very run down, However, the pandemic saw a renewed interest in some of our resorts and this has revived them.

Everyone lives so close to the sea (no one lives more than 70 miles/110 km from the coast) in the UK that day trips to the seaside are popular as well as spending weekends there.

Glad you are pronouncing Wales correctly, most other Americans on here seem to pronounce it wrongly by saying "Wells"!!

The man doing the voice over pronounced Ceredigion wrongly!

[abigailjohnson]

I live in cornwall. We have over 400 beaches. Some beautiful places like Fowey. I live in the city of Truro, but my local beach is 15mins drive away on the north coast. We have a ton of surfing on the north coast because it’s an Atlantic coastline. Newquay’s Fistral beach is very famous for the surfing and now the huge musical festival called Boardmasters which also includes a v serious surfing competition .

[elizabethbennetts]

You NEED TO DO A VIDEO ON CORNWALL. We have an Abundance of Historical places. It’s absolutely Stunning here in Cornwall, we have the longest Coastline, You want to go to all of the beaches and go Surfing, especially Newquay.

[jamesdignanmusic]

You could have a list of the top 500 seaside towns, and you'd still have a lot left over worth adding to it. From Marazion to Holyhead, Portstewart to Stornoway, Stonehaven to Whitby, Cromer to Eastbourne - there are literally hundreds of interesting coastal towns in the UK.

[shoelessjojaxon]

Oh Tyler you absolutely need to come over to the UK and have someone show you around!
There are so many quaint and beautiful little towns and I think you’d love them all.

[zollykod]

I'm an Old Person who was a child before it was common to go abroad for holidays. My childhood was full of days out in the countryside with a picnic, and going for weeks to various seaside resorts on the South Coast - Bexhill, Winchelsea, Eastbourne. I'm now thinking I might like to move to that area - living near water (my favourite being the River Thames - not the bit of it in London but further up!) is very good for us, I think. Even now I think people often spend odd days off, like Bank Holidays, going to resorts for the day. Sadly, a lot of our beaches aren't sandy but pebbly! And of course, our weather isn't really conducive to lots of lazy beach time - it's why people go to Spain and Greece for such things!

[richardfield]

Dorset is a county. Not all English counties end in -shire. Swanage is located on the Jurassic Coast, one of the most beautiful stretches of coast in England. It has UNESCO Heritage status.

[zollykod]

There are bigger places not on this list which are probably much more popular as 'seaside resorts' - Blackpool, Brighton to name just two. These here are generally the quieter, lesser-known spots. There are many coastal towns in the South-West in particular that have boats, and the colourfully-painted houses, which were originally fishing villages.

[annaparry]

Before British people were able to fly abroad for their summer holidays, they used to go places on the UK coast. These places had a resurgence in popularity over COVID19. I have always enjoyed my seaside holidays in the UK, most frequently to Pembrokeshire (where you will find St David’s)

[frankparsons]

Rye hilltop town in the 11th century was an island and a port, but over time the coast silted up and the river now runs out to the coast over a mile away! It is one of the Ancient Cinque Ports, founded to protect that part of the south coast from invaders. The town was fortified in the 13th century with stone gates and high stone walls protected the townspeople against raids by the French. The raids were frequent and in the 1300s the French broke in, burnt part of the town and stole the church bells. After a few months we sailed over, burnt their town and retook our bells, damned foreigners! I've holidayed there for decades and stay there every May, its lovely, I know a good few of the locals there, and their pubs and Inns, as you do! Many many happy memories.

[gregoryvanniekerk]

Tyler, huge fan of yours: I Highly recommend that you research The Isles of Scilly! I just know it will completely blow your mind ! If you loved the seaside towns, you really need to experience all the various Island’s off the coast of UK ! Isles of Scilly probably the biggest surprise but then there’s Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Wight & then all the incredible small Islands off Scotland !