Wadhurst is named as the best place to live in the UK

Wadhurst successful East Sussex has been named arsenic the UK's champion spot to live.

Judges for the Sunday Times said the municipality offered "pretty overmuch everything needed for modern beingness successful miniature".

A victor was besides selected successful Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales arsenic good arsenic successful each portion successful England.

Helen Davies, exertion of Best Places To Live, said: "Attractive surroundings, bully neighbours and a comfy location are the champion defences erstwhile the stresses of modern beingness look overwhelming."

The judges praised the municipality for its bully schools, convenient transport links, assortment of precocious thoroughfare shops and being surrounded by "stunning scenery".

The Wadhurst Warriors, a radical of fathers who began fundraising for the town's superior schoolhouse successful 2004 and present rise wealth for the full village, were praised arsenic the "stars of the show".

Wadhurst Warriors president Chris Poulton said: "We bash judge Wadhurst is the champion spot to unrecorded and that is down to america each moving unneurotic to marque it a spot wherever everyone tin beryllium supported.

"We don't bash it for ourselves, we bash it for the community."

The town, which has a colonisation of less than 5,000 people, is the smallest victor of the grant successful its 11-year history.

Paula Lee, 58, who owns the ONE homeware store connected the precocious street, said: "There are immoderate truly beauteous shops, it is simply a well-rounded precocious thoroughfare - determination is simply a bully autarkic butcher, grocers and a bully assemblage spirit.

"The countryside successful this country is conscionable outstanding. There is tons of walking and tons of sporting activities successful an country of outstanding earthy beauty."

Among the different determination winners were Liverpool, which is astir to big the Eurovision Song Contest, and Whitley Bay successful Tyne and Wear, which the judges said was "catching up fast" with its affluent neighbour Tynemouth aft "years successful the doldrums".

Chichester, successful West Sussex, which has much Ukrainian refugees per caput than immoderate different UK city, was praised for its bully schools and transport links and was deemed worthy of inclusion separately, the judges decided.

Ruthin successful Denbighshire was identified arsenic the champion spot to unrecorded successful Wales, Dunkeld successful Perthshire was named arsenic the champion spot to unrecorded successful Scotland, and Donaghadee successful Co Down was placed apical successful Northern Ireland.

East: Saffron Walden, Essex

Midlands: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

North and North East: Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear

Northern Ireland: Donaghadee, Co Down

Scotland: Dunkeld, Perthshire

South East: Chichester, West Sussex

South West: Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Wales: Ruthin, Denbighshire