[Closed] top 10 uk dumps...

No-one's mentioned Leeds yet either. Particularly Belle Isle, Harehills, Gipton (sounds as bad as it is) & Cross Flats/Dewsbury Road area.

They are all far better now than they were in the past though.

Gipton is like a pleasant Cotswolds village compared to how it was 25 years ago 🙂

Lived in Bradford for 9 months.. Apart from a few good curry houses it was just awful. Will never return. Nobody has mentioned Weston super mare yet.. But that's a shithole too..

I suppose this topic is actually "top 10 dumps as well as Sunderland, which is such a dump that everyone takes it as given that it will top the list", but the OP shortened the title.

Nah, the joke is "I went to Newtown once, it was closed" the only time Merthyr is closed is when it's on fire, which I believe it is at the moment.

It wasn't a recycled joke. We passed through on a Sunday, I think maybe mid-morning, on our way to somewhere else (we diverted through it as I'd always liked the name and was curious as to what it was like). It was like a ghost town. All the shops were closed, no pedestrians, no traffic... it was actually really eerie, like something out of a post-apocalyptic film.

Trouble with these lists is that many places (on first site) seem reasonably prosperous and thriving even pretty and tidy. But then scratch the surface, and they are full of the most repulsive, pretentious privileged toss pots you'd ever likely to meet, imagine a town where every male inhabitant is Nigel Farage and every woman Katie Hopkins... Welcome to Marlow

As a simple heuristic, any place beginning with 'S' is a bit rubbish

Holyhead.
The wife & I stayed over there once to get the ferry to the green isle. We were a bit frightened for our lives when a fight very nearly broke out in a pub.

Curiously Southampton hasn't made this list - I say curiously because [s]we[/s] the city scores high on that list in the Shit Cities Book linked earlier.

Southampton has had a lot of gentrification in the last 5 - 10 years. The city center is almost nice and is very "SodoSopa" with the recent round of redevelopment right by West Quay

But alas, the generally speaking Southampton is a shithole. There are lots of surrounding areas that are destitute.

[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/towns-with-best-quality-of-life-all-sound-shit-20170301123083 ]... and at the other end of the spectrum...[/url]

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As a simple heuristic, any place beginning with 'S' is a bit rubbish

That actually works. Stockport and Stoke on Trent both sprung to mind as soon as I read it.

I kinda mentioned Southampton.
Used to live in Viole(n)t Road in the Flowers estate. Better than living in Pansy Road I spose.
Crazy how there can be such class divide between one side of a street and another. Dunce opposite must have had his own personal cell at the local nick.

I was going to suggest Chaaaaa'am and Gravesend

I live in Chatham (Walderslade) and work in Gravesend. Scoring at Lunch time is the main advantage.

Gravesend nothing like as bad as Medway and not worthy of being mentioned on this list.

[i]Edit[/i] Lydd. had to pick something up I bought on Ebay a couple of months ago. Grim only known for the Kart track.

Aaaand the winner is... [url= http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/croeserw.html ]Croeserw is a place of black, malevolent evil[/url]

We were a bit frightened for our lives when a fight very nearly broke out in a pub.

imagine a town where every male inhabitant is Nigel Farage and every woman Katie Hopkins... Welcome to Marlow

Now that's just not true. A good half of the men are more 'Tim nice but dim.' than Farage.
And at least it's not Henley-On-Thames

Used to live in Viole(n)t Road in the Flowers estate

High six!

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Spent a year there as well. Not far off the main road, thankfully.

We were doing some social housing there back in the 80's and looked outside the cabin to see a few police and a bit of a commotion. Some bloke had been walking down the road, climbed over a small picket fence into someone's front garden and started shagging the pet dog. In the front garden, on the main road, in broad daylight.

Leeds?

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Dudley

Even the pigeons have left,now it's only shell suits and bull terriers.

Anyone else find it somewhat sad that we have parts of the country that are prospering greatly and other areas that a....clearly not

Fort William is no braw but maybe we're being a bit harsh on the by pass planners as the railway ran along there before the by pass was built

I was going to say Dundee but the waterfront is looking so much better the V & A is costing a packet but looking good, whereas the broth up the coast a bit is dire, their charity shops need charity

Widnes.

My grandparents lived there, right up the northern end of it which was OK in as much as it was thoroughly dull with the square root of **** all to do so the chavs avoided it in favour of hanging round the town centre, one hand down the front of their trackie bottoms, the other hand shovelling chips into their mouths.

Literally nothing to do there. No amenities except endless shopping arcades being built. Never seen so many cheap supermarkets within such a small area. Endless dual carriageways, identikit cheap housing estates and awful post-industrial wasteland.

Bradford - only worked there a year and witnessed one guy take a hatchet to the head and another getting thrown through a 2nd floor window into the street. Separate events, both middle of the day.

Burnley - some areas were properly rough.

Todmorden - just grim.

one hand down the front of their trackie bottoms, the other hand shovelling chips into their mouths.

Inbreeding shows - a third hand needed to the hold their chips? 😯

Gorton wasn't too bad when I lived there for a bit. (Quite stabby and rapey, but better than some areas)

Compared to living in Shelton in stoke, it actually was a vast improvement.

Bradford was a hole, Rotherham was bloody horrible, but the worst places I've visited/worked/lived have been Wallasey (works vehicles fire bombed within 30 mins of parking on site) and rhymny in south wales which looked like a war zone.

Huntingdon is pretty special, everyone there is ill or ugly, mainly because they smoke 20 a day and survive on greggs.

It's been a while since I lived there, but Salford, or at least plenty of areas of Salford must be some of the biggest dumps in the UK. Always loads of shootings/stabbings/joy riding/arson etc. etc.

I saw Barrow mentioned earlier. Yeh, it's a bit of a dump, but you're not gonna get stabbed or shot.

Huntingdon is pretty special, everyone there is ill or ugly, mainly because they smoke 20 a day and survive on greggs.

One of the most depressing things to do is go around Huntington town centre on a Saturday morning. The council have done a pretty good job of making it a ghost town. They've even given up (it appears) on the new shopping complex, which is a deserted building site.
It's sad, because it used be ok.

London. Shithole.

You've not travelled if you think Todmorden is anywhere near the top 10 dumps in the UK. You've got Burnley just down the road which is a lot worse for starters and Rochdale which is on a par with Burnley.

I remember when my wife was a trainee teacher and she went for a job interview in a school just outside Great Yarmouth in February. I busied myself around Great Yarmouth for a day scoping the place out, finding out good places to live etc just in case. I remember it being very, very cold and snowing and sitting in the car watching wild dogs running around in the street next to a burnt out car and thinking what the hell is this place. Luckily the wife didn't get the job... I think the nearest place resembling civilisation we passed on the way was Sheffield.

Might I add Castle town on Kintyre? The Scots can really make a dump if they want to. Also Biddulph although anywhere in the Potteries could qualify.

Lovely thread.

The Scots can really make a dump if they want to

Oh God yes, plenty of awful little towns in the middle of not very much. Ardrossan (mentioned earlier) that really only serves as a way of getting to Arran.
Moffat always seemed a spectacularly grim place, I remember driving through it on the way up to Glentress.

I've moved around a bit and whenever anyone tries to tell me how bad a local place is, I remind them I use to live in Leeds and worked in/around Harehills/Gipton and Chapeltown in the 80's...

Never mind a long career of travelling the world and working on most of the continents.

And if anyone tells you they live in Dunstable, they mean Luton 😉

The majority of Liverpool.

Anyway I read a good book last year that celebrated the worst of the UK. Good read too!

Tim Moore - You are Awful (But I like you!)

Southend.

pilton / muirhouse ( council estate in west Edinburgh) The worst of its been knocked down now but its horrific. Its the worst I know although some parts of Glasgow have a male life expectancy of under 60

And if anyone tells you they live in Dunstable, they mean Luton

Oi I grew up in Dunstable

its a shithole

Lutons worse

Moffat always seemed a spectacularly grim place, I remember driving through it on the way up to Glentress.

I think you've got Moffat mixed up with somewhere else, it's not bad.

Or you've never been to Warrington.

Its the worst I know although some parts of Glasgow have a male life expectancy of under 60

I recall in 2012, was meeting someone from Perth who was buying a bike from me, at braehead as he was going there and I'm only 30 mins away. I was about due to do the Edinburgh marathon, so decided to go a run after, was fed up running my local area.
It was a day like today, lovely sunny spring Sunday, and I ran from there into Govan, big loop round the hospital and back, about 10 miles.
I never saw a single runner or cyclist the whole time, a Sunday morning, nae wonder they have such low life expectancy....

Great Yarmouth in February..... I think the nearest place resembling civilisation we passed on the way was Sheffield.

You are of course very wrong, like many of the places mentioned here, the real kicker for people trapped in these shitholes is the prosperity and general pleasant surroundings to be found 20 miles away.

(And I don't mean the bottom of the North Sea, although in Great Yarmouth's case, this is true.)

Aberdeen. Yes sure if you go to Stoke on Trent, New Cumnock, Merthyr or Bradford today you'd see deprivation to make your eyes bleed. Those places haven't taken 40 years of prosperity and pissed it up the wall. Those place have no delusions of grandeur. Those place aren't Aberdeen. It truly is the dystopian product of Thatcher's Britain.

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Cumbernauld, wins every time.

Plus:
Ardrossan
Rotherham
Half of Glasgow
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Ardrossan is the nicest of the 3 towns!

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Moffat always seemed a spectacularly grim place, I remember driving through it on the way up to Glentress.

My list:

1. Slough
2. London
3. Maidenhead, hated living there there after uni
4. Tunbridge Wells

I don't to be honest have much dislikes for places more the type of people that live in them i actually lived in south Wales and as much as it had bad parts it was beautiful to be able to walk the hills and mountain bike.

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