The Shambles, York’s famous fourteenth century market road, has been named Britain’s prettiest street following a survey by National Express Group.
National Express Group writes:
The survey of 1,000 people UK-wide was conducted to uncover the nation’s most charming streets in a bid to encourage people to take in somewhere new over the Easter weekend. National Express Managing Director, Chris Hardy, said: ‘We quizzed the nation, scouring the A to Z of Britain’s roads, rows, avenues and lanes to uncover the top 15 UK streets you need to see. A long Bank Holiday weekend is right up everybody’s street so we thought the time was ripe to reveal the UK’s prettiest to inspire people to take somewhere new in their stride this Easter.’
The street, which played host to a thriving meat market from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, is characterised by overhanging timber-framed buildings that line the road, some of which date back over 700 years. The Royal Mile of Edinburgh’s Old Town and the sweeping Georgian architecture of the Circus in Bath reside in second and third place in the countdown.
Colourful shopfronts and cobbled streets earned Steep Hill, Lincoln, a place in the list, along with the Marketplace, Devizes and Eastgate Street in Chester.
