YORK has ranked highly as a place people want to visit and bring up their families.

The readers of Condé Nast Traveller have voted York as the UK’s tenth favourite city in the Readers’ Travel Awards - behind destinations including London, Bath and Leeds.

A further league table showed York to be the fifth best place for families to live.

Held in London this week, the Condé Nast awards rank York as voters tenth favourite city - a drop from fourth place last year. London won first place, followed by Edinburgh, Bath, Glasgow, Salisbury, Cambridge, Newcastle, Oxford and Leeds.

Kate McMullen, Head of Tourism, Make It York, said: “We’re delighted that York is in the UK’s Top 10 favourite cities to visit. It’s interesting to see that Glasgow, Cambridge and Newcastle have each moved up in the rankings and just goes to show that competition is bigger than ever.

“Tourism in York had a difficult start to 2016 due to the floods, however it’s great to see that the city has bounced back and we hope to move back up the rankings next year.”

Meanwhile, an index from uSwitch said the benefits of living in the city rank it as the fifth best place to live with a family, behind Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire and Warrington.

The index ranks the UK’s 138 local authorities on 33 aspects important to family life – including health, housing, crime, childcare, sleep, sunshine and time spent with family

The study has revealed that York performed well when it comes to healthcare, with a high number of GPs (1.37 GPs per 1,000 residents), and strong exam results, with 63 per cent of pupils securing 5 or more A*-C grades at GCSE or equivalent.

York is also rated highly for its low percentage of children living in workless households (eight per cent), and its residents low weekly household grocery expenditure (£51.30 per average household).

In an award hat-trick, yesterday, York also topped a National Express poll to determine the country’s best-loved cathedral cities, ahead of Lincoln and Durham.