Villages in North Yorkshire and Northumberland have made the list of the top most peaceful staycation spots in the UK.

Created by experts Iceheadshop.co.uk to discover which town/village is the most peaceful destination in the UK.

An index was created to pull together a list of peaceful locations by measuring crime rates, Instagram hashtags, population and peaceful outdoor activities.

These were then combined to create an overall peace score out of 100 for each of the 53 analysed locations.

Bamburgh in Northumberland just fell short of the lost with a peaceful score of 60.37/100.

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The village is home to 12 walking trails and 6 bird watching trails and is most famous for Bamburgh castle, the seat of the former king of Northumbria and one of the largest inhabited castles in the country.

However, Reeth a village in North Yorkshire, did make the top 10, landing at number seven on the last with a score of 76.57.

Reeth received a crime rate of just 12 per 1,000 inhabitants and has 11 hiking trails, three bird watching trails, zero fishing trails, 16,000 Instagram hashtags and a peace score of 76.57.

The full top 10 list of the UK’s most peaceful destinations can be seen below:

  1. Bassenethwaite, Cumbria – peace score of 86.62
  2. Dartmouth, Devon – peace score of 85.26
  3. Over Haddon, Peak District – peace score of 83.69
  4. Broadway, Worcestershire – peace score of 78.97
  5. Bakewell, Derbyshire – peace score of 77.22

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  1. Portmeirion, Gwynedd – peace score of 76.65
  2. Reeth, North Yorkshire – peace score of 76.57
  3. Kingswear, Devon – peace score of 71.19
  4. Mullion, Cornwall – peace score of 70.35
  5. Hathersage, Derbyshire – peace score of 68.99

 

You can find more out about the study here: https://www.iceheadshop.co.uk/