Where to find Britain’s best Afternoon Tea

As this week is Afternoon Tea Week, the team at carehome and retirement living organisation, Lottie, have taken on the challenge to find Britain’s best location for an Afternoon Tea and have discovered that Bowness on Windermere in Cumbria is the place to go for the best Afternoon Tea.  

Yorkshire and Cumbria seem to be the best counties for Afternoon Tea as they appeared the most often on the list, but also included is Totnes in Devon – where they claim to have invented cream tea and often boast at being the best serving home made cream, jam and scones.

The Afternoon Tea as a concept was actually invented by the Duchess of Bedford, so it is interesting that there aren’t any places in Bedfordshire in the top ten.

The top 20 is as follows:

1. Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria
2. Belpar, Derbyshire
3. Totnes, Devon
4. Carlisle, Cumbria
5. Llandudno, Conwy
6. Rye, Sussex
7. Dorchester, Dorset
8. Bexhill, Sussex
9. Knaresborough, Yorkshire
10.  Kendal, Cumbria
11. Ripon, Yorkshire
12. Southport, Merseyside
13. Wells, Somerset
14. Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland
15. Shrewsbury, Shropshire
16. Chesterfield, Derbyshire
17. Scarborough, Yorkshire
18. Chelmsford, Essex
19. Northampton, Northamptonshire
20. Pickering, Yorkshire