Popular television personality Richard Hammond has named a village in the Lake District his favourite place on the planet. 

Hammond, who formerly co presented Top Gear, said in a YouTube video that Buttermere is his favourite place in the world. 

The video was posted on What's Next a channel he uses alongside fellow former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May. 

Hammond said: "I am and have been, I know, a very lucky boy. I've travelled an awful lot of the world and all the time I was travelling the one place I took with me in my imaginations and my heart was this place, my favourite place, Buttermere in the Lake District. 

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"In fact it became a bit of a standing joke because what you won't have seen when you watched our many car adventures and travel shows over the years was that wherever we were looking out across a beautiful landscape whether it was Madagascar, Mongolia or Burma there'd be a pause in the radio traffic from the rest of the crew in their cars and then somebody would dial in 'Go on then Rich say it' and I'd pipe up with, 'It reminds me of the Lake District."