[Closed] Worst town in Britain

isnt this a tv series with ralph little danny dyer or the bald one off eastenders

Chester,dirty,grotty,the Romans came and went,and the local council fails to realise they went hundreds of years ago,along with most of the shops.They now have fake Romans walking the strets,like some poor quality theme park.
The expensive parking,poor quality car parks,and the alledged home of Hollyoaks,thats filmed in Liverpool 20 plus miles away.

anywhere there used to be a pit, or coal mine for you people that do not know what a pit is.

Wigan, chav capital of the Northern hemisphere. Women - Shellsuits stuffed into diamond pattern socks, the biggest hoop earrings available, gobs like drains. Blokes - Shellsuits stuffed into diamond pattern socks, lop sided baseball caps, gobs like drains.

The climate must be nice up there though, as everyone appears to have a very healthy tan.

Grimsby.....

Huntingdon? Now there's a sh*t hole if ever I saw one.

Peterborough isn't any better.

I used to work in both at one point. 🙁

Glyncorwygg is pretty horrible. The lacashire mill towns are pretty dire too. But my vote has to go to the ones closer to me (Liverpool), widnes, st helens and in particular, Runcorn, are about as crap and naff a place as you are likely to find. Even old ladies wear tracksuits in Runcorn!!

Dagenham, Londons armpit and with more cases of interbreeding than any other town in the UK. (fact - I know someone that works for the council there).

Drove through Rhyll once, didn't fancy stopping to save my life!

Widnes is the arsehole of Britain, Runcorn is the arsehole of widnes

England?

🙂

Here's one for all you southerners, Bordon, shocking!! Nuff said....

on a family holiday, we camped in exmoor for a week.......awesome.
for the 2nd week we went on a road trip round the welsh trail centers.
1st 2 night were planned to stay at glyncorwygg ponds...
we drove up the road towards glyncorwygg and it got grimmer and grimmer.
i kept quiet, but i could tell from the wifes face she was not impressed.
the minute we entered glyncorwygg she burst into tears, spurting out that if i thought she was gonna spend any of her summer holiday in such a shyte hole, i had another thing coming.......
needless to say, i never got to ride whites level.......... 😉

+1 for St. Helens and it used to have pit to please Ton. The first 18 years of my life were spent there and it has pretty much put me off ever moving back North

Leigh.

Past through it for lunch during LeJoG this summer, there was a shared emotion between us that it was definately not a place to be in a full lycra gear. Also saw bunch of 8-10 year old's blowing up condoms and being a general nuisance....

Too Subjective for me, the fact is that Liverpool remains the roughest Local Authority Area based on the UK National Indicies of Deprivation, which measures how skint people are and how thick they are (amongst other less interesting measures)

If you dont believe me check it out, and sort on average rank:

[url] http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/neighbourhoodrenewal/deprivation/deprivation07/ [/url]

.....and for a bit more fun check out not only Anti-Social Behaviour but Vehicle Crime, Robbery, Burglary and Violent Crime, for any town or post code here:

[url] http://maps.police.uk/ [/url]

and if you want to know what your local council should be doing address Crime and ASB have a look at this

[url] http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/national-policing-plan/national-community-safety-0609 [/url]

anywhere north of exeter

brinnington, by stockport ....crazy dudes

fotorat - Member

Too Subjective for me, the fact is that Liverpool remains the roughest Local Authority Area based on the UK National Indicies of Deprivation

That'll be the "UK" not including Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland then.....

There used to be a name for that, but it seems to have fallen into disuse.

Batley runs its near neighbour Dewsbury pretty close.

Grangemouth in Scotland.

Farnworth nr Bolton

Middlesborough.

Middlesbrough.

Not just opinion. There was a Channel 4 programme about it.

margate

Anywhere but here.

Pretty much all towns are the same. If you were to be blind folded and dropped into a town centre you would be hard pushed to to tell the difference. Not all are shite holes though but they all seem to be copies of each other these days.

Generic towns.

-BIRKENHEAD

- some dregs of liverpool cross the river to live there
-its name even makes it sound like a sh!thole, it is a sh!thole
-said to have the largest number of smackheads per capita in europe a few years ago - dont know how much truth in this but I could well believe it
-tj hughes biggest shop there

Bridgewater gets my vote.

As for Glyncorrwg, I reckon it's much prettier than a lot of Valleys places. Go to Merthyr town centre, have a cup of tea in the bus station cafe and then think of the mountains and forests of GC. Having said that, it's been 10 years since I was there so maybe it's got better 🙂

I'm 100% with molgrips.
There's very very little worse than Bridgewater.

Southampton is pretty rubbish, Portsmouth is worse and I don't feel comfortable in Reading... Basingstoke town centre (surprisingly) is OK (not so sure about (some) of the outskirts)

Shirebrook (lovingly refererred to as Shitebrook, notice that readers?) in the glorious province of Mansfield.

or even Glapwell....

oh I could go on. And yes anywhere with a pit.

agreed Birkenhead is a bit of a dump. But surely it has to be Hayes or Acton, pretty dire places. Going back up north I found Stockton a bit of a dump... chav central pretty much like how markfu has described Wigan. Just what posses someone to dress like a complete idiot and then tattoo their face with what is only recognisable as scribble ?

K

wakefield
castleford
featherstone
doncaster
rotherham
barnsley
dewsbury
batley
keighley
bradford
leeds
oldham
rochdale
wigan
st helens
widnes
salford
etc
etc
etc
UP NORTH................ 😉

stanley in county durham is pretty bleak but still doesnt come close to some of the turd holes i've seen in scotland

Merthyr is probably as bad of a town as Bridgewater but it's in Wales and has loads of good biking, so that makes it better 🙂

Falkirk is the arse hole of Scotland.

Maesteg (just up the road from Glencorrwg). If Wales needed an enema, Maesteg is where they'd stick the hose, and Gotre, (again just down the road) is where the crap would come out...

derek_starship, Grangemouth? Bad? you've got to be funnin' around, Its a bit grey but its not in the premier division of crap scottish towns.
Now Larkhall for instance- I accidentally strayed into there and seeing the red white and blue kerbs, the paramilitary flags and 'FTP' grafitti, I cycled out of there like Cavendish( and I didnae need no leadout!)

LONDON, most of the housing is like the sh*t bits of wolverhampton but 10 times more expensive.

Wrexham- chav central

Ellsmere port- full of plastic scousers as is most of the wirral

Stoke on trent - the people are so proud to be ignorant, parochial tossers (see tons comments about pit towns)

chester is actually rather nice, having lived there and moved all over the uk it's still alot better than a lot of towns and cities.

Grangetown - the arse end of Middlesbrough.

Particular dislike of Blackpool. Went there on a stag-do. An absolute infernal hell hole. A true abscess on Satan’s under-crackers of a place.

If I’m northbound from Bristol (apart from Wales) I generally put my foot down to reach my destination as soon as possible. Having said that, it is hard to think of one redeeming quality that Bridgewater possesses. Maybe it’s proximity to the Quantocks - at a push?

A mate that’s just transferred down from Leeds mentioned a place named Gipton? Having heard his horror stories of that location I’ll be sure to give it a wide berth.

gipton is one of many shyteholes in the dump that is leeds..... 😉

Always had to be one knob who said Liverpool and even quoted a reference, these southerners (as they invariably always are) have never been here and are probably way too scared to because of all us frightening scouse 'ruffians'.....

(scousers!)

Always had to be one knob who said Liverpool and even quoted a reference, these southerners (as they invariably always are) have never been here and are probably way too scared to because of all us frightening scouse 'ruffians'.....

Places I have recently worked or passed through (quickly)

Blackpool is just horrible
Cleator Moor is as bleak as it gets
M'Boro....oh god!
Blyth is desolate
Peterborough was a stinker of a town
Mablethorpe...the long road to hell

im from london,i was workin in the wirral when the open golf was on,the wirral is were scousers aspire to live,it wasnt a hole...but where were all the pretty women?? bob pecker had fun that week.

Pretty much all towns are the same. If you were to be blind folded and dropped into a town centre you would be hard pushed to to tell the difference. Not all are shite holes though but they all seem to be copies of each other these days.

Generic towns

What makes a town bad isn't the shopfronts or block paving - it's what's behind that, the architecture, the people, the local facilities. The stinking factories chucking out fumes (think Bridgewater and Port Talbot. The crime rate, social deprivation or availability of jobs.

Towns in the UK are far from generic in my opinion - if they were then there would be far less correlation than ther is in housing prices.

Ooh, Port Talbot is pretty bad too.

Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield both pretty bad.

Middlesbrough, and I'm from there.

London is too big to just say London, its a collection of towns some are great, other bits are just as bad a toilet as Middlesbrough. I live in one of the good bits 🙂

Brownhills - complete puss-filled septic derelict infested heaving mass of vileness

Is brownhills a town though iDave?? The avenues are RAF though!

Clapton, London's murder mile.Doesn't have a whole lot going for it and is not the kind of place you aspire to!

molgrips - Member

.....Go to Merthyr town centre, have a cup of tea in the bus station cafe and then think of the mountains and forests of GC. Having said that, it's been 10 years since I was there so maybe it's got better

Err - no it hasn't.

On the way to Cardiff got my wife to chuck me out at Brecon so that I could do a ride in the Beacons and then go onto Cardiff via the Taff Trail.

The initial part of the ride was beautiful and then I came to Merthyr...

Oh Dear! There were druggies, drunks and motorbikes on the trail and I was chased by a bunch of kids who wanted to "borrow" my bike! But the worst bit was a section where there was a 20 ft bank up to some council houses. The locals were just throwing their rubbish down the bank and it had built up to such an extent that you couldn't see the ground. A solid 20ft wall of filth. It looked just like the rubbish face of an open tip.

The Wirral is a peninsula..LOL!

Think there are very few total shitholes in the UK - I'm optimistic like that. Most towns mentioned have their good parts. That said, parts of Liverpool and Glasgow stand out to me as being just a bit different, containing some people who truly are beyond help. I always held the scallies as undisputed kings of the UK underclass, but since moving up to Scotland I reckon the Glasgae Neds could contest things.

Only a moron would describe two big, historic cities like Liverpool or Glasgow as shitholes. But places there like Easterhouse, or Kensington are extremely bad. Transplant your typical Southern England chav onto the streets of Kenny and they'd feel like an extra in a George Romero zombie film.

There are lots of others - Swindon, Bracknall, all Medway towns, most of Oxford, Aylesbury, Luton, all of east kent except perhaps Whitstable. I guess these places are at least near to decent places to work and ride so living there could be tolerated (but still, why not move?) whereas if you live in a lancashire ex mill / industrial town say, all your nearby towns are crap as well.

It is rather sad how much of this supposedly affluent country is pretty much uninhabitable. No wonder everyone wants to move to the west country (Bridgewater excepted).

It is rather sad how much of this supposedly affluent country is pretty much uninhabitable. No wonder everyone wants to move to the west country (Bridgewater excepted).

Great Yarmouth - last time I went was in the middle of January so probably didn't see it at its best time but I've NEVER been to anywhere in the UK where there are wild dogs running around, burned out cars left on the street and general port debris blowing down the streets. Its no wonder the road to get there is so bad, nobody wants outsiders to see it.

Weston Super Mare

Desolate.

worked all over the uk and find liverpool isnt that bad

Easy ....... its got to be Brynmawr, South Wales; although Newton Aycliffe or 'Mutant' Aycliffe runs it a very close second 🙂

Ffestiniog isn't brilliant either. Random people fighting in the street last time I drove through in the middle of the afternoon. I suspect there is a LOT worse in south Wales though!

Weston Super Mare

Desolate

Get on. You've obviously never enjoyed the delights of Sands Nightclub on a Saturday night. That epicurean epicentre of high cultural.

Redruth in Cornwall, there's a local saying that nothing good ever came out of Redruth. Best described as the a*s end of a sh*t hole.

0pt1cal - Member
Falkirk is the arse hole of Scotland.

This is a typical Pommy thread - worrying about the negative rather than the positive.

I don't venture into Southernland much, but most places seem pretty good to me. I dislike large cities, but there seem to be plenty nice places even in those.

OH yes how did I forget that day trip to Great (sic) Yarmouth......my god it made Blackpool look like Monaco.
That main drag up to the sea front from the town centre was a picture of health the day I strolled up it. Picture the scene, 2 tonne of blubber poured into ( with no degree of skill) a catsuit (lurid pink) screeming at her mate 'wheres the facking chippy? I'm starvinnnn'

8OiDave - Member
Brownhills - complete puss-filled septic derelict infested heaving mass of vileness

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kinda666 - Member
Is brownhills a town though iDave?? The avenues are RAF though!

Thats close to home!

BLOXWICH is where its at!
Google "the hells mouth of sh*t filled ar*e near Walsall dumping ground for the turgid waste of Birminghams wasters" and you wont be far out! 🙂

Welcome! 😯

I've been born, lived and worked in many of those northern towns mentioned and none compare to the time I spent around the east end of london , the areas of Poplar and then Barking. (god I hope I never have to go back to Poplar - do they know what a tree or blade of grass is)

Holyhead, Cinderford, Dursley, Newquay....still thinking of more!

Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield both pretty bad.

I think they look quite good when you compare them to Kirkby!

the fact is that Liverpool remains the roughest Local Authority Area based on the UK National Indicies of Deprivation, which measures how skint people are and how thick they are (amongst other less interesting measures)

If Liverpool was a town then maybe your point would be relevant, its not, which possibly puts you amongst the "thick" people you refer to.

Gotta love where ya live!
Never forget ya roots!
Ya can tek the man outa Bloco but ya can never tek the Bloco out the man!
Im still.... Im still.... Bing from the block!

PS only a few miles from our local trails.... where the locals earn their keep nicking bikes!

Your right with your description of Blocco Bing, bought up in Pelsall so i was sandwiched between Blocco and Brownhills! 👿

Holy cr*p that might be worse than me!

You must only be up the road from me then...... have ya locked ya car?

I'll second Leigh, and I live there. In fact, the general area(which used to have many pits), is now just one huge stinking big one. Like all these things, it's the people that make the place and it really is filled with such brain dead idiots that half the time you do a double take to check if they're playing with you or not.

All cities are shitholes really though, it's not their fault nor the people who live there. The problem with a city is that you invariably get many people who live there who by circumstance or choice, never leave it, so become insular and suspicious of anywhere else. I found scousers are often this was because so many of them could not justify the expense of visiting somewhere else whereas cockneys because they think London is so great.

Moved to Wolvo now so no better off! Coalpool was once dubbed the worst estate in England, Bet Goscote was 2nd!