The quintessential Welsh coastal village of Solva is many things, but can it really be called posh? According to the Times, the Pembrokeshire village is in fact "popular with the posh fashion crowd who can do without the crush in Cornwall" and gave it a solid posh score of three out of five as it ranked the 'poshest Welsh villages' in the UK,
There are some key criteria when it comes to poshness apparently: a personalised number plate, at least three working-breed dogs and first-name terms with your organic butcher. The people living and working in the picture postcard village of Solva however seem surprised and rather unimpressed with the label.
One thing The Times did get right though is Solva is a pretty old fishing village with a picturesque harbour and sandy beach tucked at the end of an inlet at St Brides Bay. Located in the northern half of Pembrokeshire, it's where the terrain gets more rugged and a place which perhaps attracts a hardier type of folk. It bears a small resemblance to Salcombe on the south coast of England, which is very much posh and is consistently the most expensive place in Devon (and second only to Sandbanks in the UK), except Solva is much much smaller in scale.
