WHITBY has been named the UK's most 'Instagrammable' location and the third most beautiful place to visit in the country.
Daffodil Hotel have revealed the UK’s most beautiful escapes by ranking them on factors such as area of green space, number of beauty spots, number of heritage spots, Instagram hashtags and number of mountains and hills.
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'Instagramability' was taken from the number of photos uploaded using each location's relevant hashtag on the popular online photo-sharing platform Instagram.
The number of attractions, green spaces, and beauty spots were taken from Trip Advisor, and County Heritage spots and the number of mountains and hills in the areas were both taken from Wikipedia.
Any towns or villages with incomplete data were removed before ranking and the firm used a weighted ranking formula to give each location an overall score, where each factor was given equal importance.
Only one area in the region made the top ten, with Whitby taking third place in the UK's most beautiful locations.
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The popular seaside town topped the Instagram charts - totalling 1,222,206 instagram hashtags.
Here's how Daffodil Hotel described Whitby: "The Yorkshire Coast is the perfect place to sample freshly caught British seafood, and a trip to Whitby provides just that.
"Whitby offers a host of spectacular seafood restaurants scattered on its coastline, an excellent local fish market, and of course, classic Whitby fish and chips.
"There are also countless opportunities for walking with the North York Moors National Park, Cleveland Way, and the Lyke Wake Walk.
"Whitby is the UK's top coastline retreat to enjoy a well-deserved break."
Three Cumbrian locations; Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere make the top ten, with Keswick and Ambleside clinching the first and second spots.
No North East locations made it onto the list.
Here are the top ten UK's most beautiful locations compiled by Daffodil Hotel
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