The UK’s ‘most underrated city’ where there’s ‘not a single negative thing’ to say

A YouTuber who’s travelled the length and breadth of the UK chronicling its changing high streets and crime-ridden towns was blown away when visiting the “most underrated city”.

In a recent video, says he “can’t find a single negative about this place, it’s absolutely banging” upon his visit to the city of Lincoln.

“There’s industrial history on show, independent shops that are still open and look busy. Nothing that looks boarded up and empty. It’s not just the most underrated city – maybe it’s the best city.”

David normally researches his targets thoroughly, but admits that before he visited Lincoln he only did some minimal reading. That was in order to get an unbiased impression of the place that many have described as the UK’s most underrated city.

The Lincolnshire city has resisted the trend of homogenisation that has made so many places – whether they be humble market towns or grand metropolises such as London or Manchester – tend to look alike.

“This is legitimately amazing, I love Lincoln, it’s beautiful,” he marvelled, as he looked at well-preserved half-timbered shops and homes dating back to the late Medieval period. 

There’s a good deal of building work going on in the city centre, but it doesn’t seem to be detracting from Lincoln’s historic character.

Perhaps the biggest thrill for David on his visit was a plaque commemorating the workshop where Sir William Tritton presided over the design of a machine that would change the face of warfare.

The first tank was built by Tritton’s Lincolnshire firm Foster and Sons, and it entered service with the British Army in 1915. The intimidating war machine’s name came from an attempt to disguise the tank’s true purpose – shipping them to France under the guise of water tanks.

There is, to David’s clear delight, still one of those amazing machines on show in Lincoln’s Museum of Lincolnshire Life.

But there’s a huge amount of other remarkable sights in the city, including a thriving high street with not a vape shop or bookies in sight.

“It’s such an interesting city,” David says. “Everywhere you go you suddenly feel like you’re in another place. The bit with the big cathedral felt like you were in Europe somewhere, while down here [near the canal] you feel like you’re in Bristol or or on the coast.

Despite being over 30 miles from the coast “you don’t feel like you’re inland with all those boats”. He added: “It’s an absolutely banging city, and I can’t wait to return.”