Welsh location named in a list of the UK's most boring towns

I lived in Surbiton for over 20 years, it's an excellent place. It's not a town though, it's a suburb. I even managed to play for a Surbiton pub rugby team. They must've been desperate for players.

Lampeter just needs its station back.

Oh well I must be boring ..I like Lampeter!

Not fair. I lived in Lampeter for five years, though it was way back in the late 1960s. Then, at least, it was a delightful, stimulating and really nice place in which to live.

Llambed for me was a blank canvas and for the four years I was there, I painted like Dali! Lle grêt!

It wasn't that expensive when they looked into it: https://www.gov.wales/aberystwyth-carmarthen-rail-reinstatement-feasibility-study Just needs a central government serious about levelling up to fund it..

I grew up in Abergavenny, on Tuesdays market day in 1990s the town was plagued with tourists. Some people would prefer Lampeter to Narbeth that is full of tourists. Tourists take parking spaces, so locals can’t park, often they only visit weekends / summer and the rest of the year the region is empty. Lampeter may be a good place to buy property now with a major employer opening, which will create lots of well-paid jobs https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/resident/news/2025/new-plans-for-the-future-of-lampeter-campus-announced/

Nothing wrong with Lampeter Its the go to place for potential Vicars It awarded the first Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree in Britain to a Nonconformist (a Methodist) in 1871, which was a big deal at the time.🤣

Perhaps they knew you were coming.

One boring man's boring opinion. What the hell is a "destination expert"? He should get a proper job, one that would benefit society.

Well im in Wales and I can tell you they have not been to Bargoed now that's a dead boring place .

I live in Cardiff, believe me you can have too 'exciting'. I'd happily take boring / uneventful over some of the things you can witness in inner cities these days.

Ok what's boring to one maybe not to another. I personally hate Cities as I cannot cope with crowds. Lampeter has a wondetful university full of cosmopolitan students. Not many stores but the ones that are there have quality products. Beautiful walks and lovely people. I live in Carmarthenshire so not that far from Lampeter. It's a town that i visit usually on my way to Cardigan.

Nothing wrong with Lampeter. Its a quiet friendly place and within close proximity to the Ceredigion coast, Brechfa Forest and mid Wales. A good bus service the T1 connects to Carmarthen, Aberaeron and Aberystwyth regularly. If the Telegraph think Lampeter is boring then they should visit Milton Keynes,Rotherham or Kirkby in England.

I've noticed Lampeter gradually dieing over the years. Now that they have closed the university it is well and truly dead. I'm quite appalled as it used to be a thriving community thirty years ago.

It's full of English. The 'boring' moniker does not deter them and will never stop them

Well the Daily Telegraph used to be a newspaper now it's just throwing insults at everybody. Heaven forbid what it's going to turn out now it's in the same ownership as the Daily mail. 😱