The little village once named 'ugliest' in the UK despite being in beautiful national park

Dove Holes is approximately three miles north of Buxton and three miles south of Chapel-en-le-Frith (Image: Getty) With more than 6,000 villages in the UK, choosing the perfect one for a staycation can be a daunting task. And with so many positive reviews online, this can often make planning even harder. However, one village was thrown into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

In a 2001 Radio 5 survey, the tiny village of Dove Holes in the High Peak District of Derbyshire was named the ugliest village in Britain. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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