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West Midlands, in particular Herefordshire, is the most beautiful place on earth.
I had family from just over the border in Brecknockshire, now Powys, Wales. The Wye River Valley is exquisite.
Yorkshire, north, is also incredibly beautiful. Much busier though, lots more traffic.
I'm not a Brit, so have never actually lived there. But we visited once or twice a year for 20+ years and we saw a lot of the country, made a lot of friends.
Like anywhere it really depends on what you're looking for.
Then, as now, even as a Northerner, I think that splitting a country like England up as North vs South doesn't make a lot of sense. The differences and similarities between the many parts of England are just too complex, dividing the country by compass points is too simple.
As someone native to the North East of England, I've thought the South West and its adjacents to have more in common with my part of the country than it does with the South East.
This goes for the countryside and the towns too. No way in 1000 years could the hills near my home be anywhere within a commute of London, but they could easily be in Gloucestershire or Devon.
If you wanted to do a film set in an old mining town in County Durham, then Cinderford and Kingswood in Gloucestershire could easily stand in for such a place.
Meanwhile, if you uprooted somewhere like Brancepeth or Blanchland in County Durham, and placed them in the Cotswolds, they would not look out of place at all.
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