Top 5 crappy villages and towns

[Norman Potting]

Blaenau Ffestiniog. Grim, very grim.

 

[Two Professors]

Willenhall (Walsall)
Willenhall (Coventry)
Wolverhampton
Wednesbury
Wednesfield

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Leeds

My company has been working in Leeds City Centre for the last two and a half years, and to be fair, the main shopping / restaurant / bar area is superb with some very up market shops and eateries. Can't comment on the suburbs / outskirts though as never been there

 

[pastafarian]

Canvey Island
Churchdown
Port Talbot
Smethwick
Birkenhead

 

[brixtonA23]

Henfield
Hassocks
Cowbridge
Clacton on Sea
East Grinstead

Honourable mention to Burgess Hill.

I'm sorry but I went to Downlands so ......


Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill

With apologies to Uncle Sams.

 

[EricYoung59]

Basildon
Birkenhead
Workington
Billingham
And ... Glenrothes

That's my 5!! You could add Harlow and Luton but they are bubbling below the Top 5

 

[Horsham Gull]

Bognor

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

portslade isn't even the worst area of brighton & hove!

 

[BHAZiggy]

Coventry
Birmingham
Rotherham
Burnley
Kingston-upon-Hull

 

[grubbyhands]

Billingshurst , pulborough . Wisborough green rules

Are you saying these 3 are crap towns?

 

[Muzzy]

Hull
Middlesborough
Margate
Rhyll
Prestatyn

Seconded!
The winner as far as I'm concerned and in that same order

 

[Muzzy]

Blaenau Ffestiniog. Grim, very grim.

Deffo makes the top 6 too!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Stoke must be up there - horrible.
Carlisle is a dreary bleak place.

 

[brixtonA23]

Are you saying these 3 are crap towns?

I don't want to gang up, but are they honestly the worst towns you've ever been to? You can't be an away fan.

 

[MattBackHome]

Portslade!?!!?!? MENTAL.

 

[pauli cee]

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

haha, spent a year or so working in west malling/leybourne. I left totally depressed, (tho' I think that was more to do with the job than the village....)

 

[mike79]

no calls for worthing?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Liskeard (Cornwall)
Adlestone (Surrey)
Dudley
Gillingham (Kent)
Blackpool

For someone who comes from Surrey, you should know how to spell Addlestone!

 

[Gullys Cats]

Croydon
Crawley
Luton
Gillingham
Sheerness

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Stoke must be up there - horrible.
Carlisle is a dreary bleak place.

Stoke & the pottery towns esp Burslem would win this hands down.