Top 5 crappy villages and towns

[surrey jim]

I genuinely do not think that I could put any Sussex villages or towns in the top 10, let alone the top 5.

Dudley is a good shout by @surrey jim.

Have been there a number of times, each time it looks more dull and depressing.

 

[Colossal Squid]

It's very Sussex focused this thread.

Whilst we have some gloomy little places in our fine county, they're still near enough paradisaical when compared with some of the holes you find further north such as in Berkshire, Bedfordshire and that whole ugly mess north of Watford Gap.

 

[essbee]

Dartford. That is all.

 

[arkan]

Just in my local area:
Redhill
Merstham (the majority of it, the bit by the station is nice)
Croydon
And in general:
Herne Bay
Most of south Manchester, especially wythenshaw and gorton

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I quite like henfield.....each to their own

Me too.

 

[Postman Pat]

Portsmouth
Hastings
Plymouth
Croydon
Southport

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Some of the 'towns' mentioned are cities.

 

[martyn20]

Folkestone
Crawley
Croydon
Lots of North Kent

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It seems we are one of the Crap Towns mentioned, along with Grimsby, Slough, Bradford and Southport

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1054...h__Bradford_and_Southport_in_crap_towns_book/

 

[atfc village]

Reading,West Malling [Kent] ,Leadgate [Durham],Gilfach Goch [Wales]and Birkenhead.

 

[Dr NBC]

Brighton
Grimsby
Slough
Bradford
Southport

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10548284.Backlash_as_Brighton_named_alongside_Grimsby__Slough__Bradford_and_Southport_in_crap_towns_book/

 

[Simster]

Just in my local area:
Redhill
Merstham (the majority of it, the bit by the station is nice)
Croydon
And in general:
Herne Bay
Most of south Manchester, especially wythenshaw and gorton

You're obviously very near me (I'm in Reigate). I don't mind Redhill really and it will look a lot nicer in the next few years as it's being massively regenerated. Merstham is an astute spot on your part though. You drive through it and it looks all very quaint, the cricket club is charming, the area near the station is fine and so is the high street. Yet there is an enormous council estate there and it blights the village because it is home to 10% of child proverty for the whole of Surrey; primarily because of a massive but hidden drug problem there.

Herne Bay is also a good call - the north coast of Kent is basically a shithole (Medway towns to the west to Herne Bay in the east), yet there are some utterly charming places that dot that coast - notably Whitstable, and then Broadstairs as the coast moves south.

 

[The Birdman]

Is nobody going to mention Croydon?

We said Towns not rubbish tips

 

[Sweetie]

Hull
Middlesborough
Margate
Rhyll
Prestatyn

 

[Mowgli37]

Crawley and Croydon, that is all

 

[doogie004]

Billingshurst , pulborough . Wisborough green rules

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Hull
Hastings
Stockport
Milton Keynes
Crewe

 

[wehatepalace]

Crawley and Croydon, that is all

You obviously don't get out of Horsham much !

 

[sydney]

gosnells
basendean
welshpool
rockingham
madina.

 

[Mowgli37]

You obviously don't get out of Horsham much !

I do, those two are just in a class of their own compared to other towns I've been to....or maybe I've just been indoctrinated against Crawley thanks to the town rivalry