Winners of the annual newspaper list in the past include York in 2018, Bristol in 2017 and Hampshire in 2016.
Salisbury has been named the best place to live in the UK, according to the Sunday TimesSalisbury has topped the Sunday Times' list of the best places to live in the UK, just a year after a novichok poisoning attack hit the city.
In its annual run down of the best places to live, the Sunday Times said that the Wiltshire city had a"real collective spirit" in the wake of the poisonings, which thrust it in to the global limelight last year. Former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia both survived the attack, which was blamed on the Russian intelligence agency the GRU - an accusation it denied.
However, Dawn Sturgess did later die as a result of the incident, after she came into contact with a discarded perfume bottle which was thought to have been used in the attack.Responding to the poll, home editor for the Sunday Times Helen Davies said:"Salisbury has shown real collective spirit in dealing with a chemical attack that saw the cathedral city become the centre of world headlines for all the wrong reasons.
"It remains a divinely attractive and welcoming place. It's handy for coast, countryside and London, has some of the best schools in the southwest, a great market and it's very strong culturally, too."
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