Any sentimental Brit songs about places?

Subject: RE: Any sentimental Brit songs about places?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 04:34 AM

The Yetties - Dorset be Beautiful

Subject: RE: Any sentimental Brit songs about places?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 04:18 AM

John Shuttleworth's You're Like Manchester...

Subject: Any sentimental Brit songs about places?
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 03:53 AM

It has long crossed my mind that British Songs about our places are rare and often specific. Historic songs apart why can't we come up with songs like "Georgia on my Mind" "Train they Call the City of New Orleans", "Nutbush City Limits", "Country Roads"

We have "I Belong to Glasgow" and inevitably a London has to be in on the act "Maybe it Because I'm a Londoner" which, lets face it, are parochial and territorial. "Caledonia" at least stands apart from those but ......

So what songs do we have that compare to the American tradition of allegorical love for a place without saying it directly? I have difficulty coming up with many.

What does the Mudcat community come up with?

My contribution would be the Adge Cutler song rarely sung by Acker Bilk "Down in Nempnett Thrubwell" but if it is a love song it is about the love of cider. And Brit humour replaces any nostalgia. Satisfying two of my passions but not in the same league as the typical American fare.