Top 5 crappy villages and towns

[Scampi]

The thing about Newhaven i like is that it seems like a place with an actual reason for being there. Sure it's run down and has had a huge incinerator dumped on it, but I prefer it to places like peacehaven which imo is a soulless nothing sort of a place, a suburb of some town thats been removed and plonked on the cliffs.

 

[Gritt23]

Very good call, sounds like you have spent plenty of time in medway,
Isle of sheppy a close runner up!

Jakarta gave a pretty good selection of local towns, but you are spot on with Isle of Sheppey. That place really does take things to a new level.

 

[Nibble]

Bracknell
Luton
Milton Keynes
Bolton
Yateley

oh and Portsmouth

 

[Trufflehound]

It seems only a few of you have been to South Wales.

Port Talbot
Pontypridd
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport
Bridgend

Worst in England: Grimsby

 

[Hillian1]

It seems only a few of you have been to South Wales.

Port Talbot
Pontypridd
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport
Bridgend

Worst in England: Grimsby

I had Cowbridge in my top 5, a god awful town in South Wales.

 

[MissGull]

Horley is in Surrey and although a bit dreary it is hardly a shithole.

Nothing to do in Horley, but if its good enough for Dame Judy Dench...

 

[atfc village]

It seems only a few of you have been to South Wales.

Port Talbot
Pontypridd
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport
Bridgend

Worst in England: Grimsby

I had Gilfach Goch what a dump ,i could also of added Llanharran ,Llantrisant ,ynsbwyl, Mountain Ash, Beddau and Llandridnod Wells.

 

[Gritt23]

It seems only a few of you have been to South Wales.

Port Talbot
Pontypridd
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport
Bridgend

Worst in England: Grimsby

I have been to Port Talbot, and must agree, that is especially grim.

 

[Trufflehound]

I had Cowbridge in my top 5, a god awful town in South Wales.

Cowbridge is the jewel of the south compared to most other places around there.



Disclaimer: Mrs Trufflehound grew up in Cowbridge, so I am contractually obliged to see it in a positive light. Despite this, she agrees with me wholeheartedly about the rest of that area.

 

[Trufflehound]

I had Gilfach Goch what a dump ,i could also of added Llanharran ,Llantrisant ,ynsbwyl, Mountain Ash, Beddau and Llandridnod Wells.

Mountain Ash is definitely up there (or down there...).

 

[atfc village]

Mountain Ash is definitely up there (or down there...).

I had a year of working in The Valleys and saw some horribly deprived places ,I really pity our Welsh Cousins who have to put up with that sh1t day in day out.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Basildon
Birkenhead
Workington
Billingham
And ... Glenrothes

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

Yep.

We've been doing a fair bit of work in small-town Scotland over the last couple of years. We've had jobs in Glenrothes, Kirkaldy, Bathgate and Whitburn.

The people on this thread mentioning places like Portslade, seriously have NO idea just how grim some towns up there are. Truly horrible, depressing existance for folk in that old mining belt round Bathgate. Whitburn is definietly my 'favourite'. Unspeakable.

 

[sod1]

i'll add two from up this way

Gainsborough
Worksop

very grim indeed

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Nothing to do in Horley, but if its good enough for Dame Judy Dench...

Doesn't she live in Outwood though - where there's a windmill to go and see!

 

[Nibble]

Yep.

We've been doing a fair bit of work in small-town Scotland over the last couple of years. We've had jobs in Glenrothes, Kirkaldy, Bathgate and Whitburn.

The people on this thread mentioning places like Portslade, seriously have NO idea just how grim some towns up there are. Truly horrible, depressing existance for folk in that old mining belt round Bathgate. Whitburn is definietly my 'favourite'. Unspeakable.

True dat

 

[Normal Rob]

I have been to Port Talbot, and must agree, that is especially grim.

here is one of the more appealing pics of Port Talbot that i could find...

 

[MissGull]

Doesn't she live in Outwood though - where there's a windmill to go and see!

Ha yes and a nice view of the M23.

 

[jakarta]

Hindley
Wigan
Skelmersdale
Warrington
Runcorn

Oh Yes, although you should also add Runcorns toxic neighbour just to the North of the Mersey.

I give you Widnes.

Although you probably wouldn't appreciate the present.....

And a shout for Ellesmere Port, just down the M56 and right up there for chemically tinged godawfullness, you have to been downwind of Stanlow Refinery to appreciate its unique 'bouquet'.

I'm so nostalgic for my old stomping ground.

 

[Pickledegg]

Only 5....hard

Littlehampton
Worthing
Hailsham
Newhaven
Crawley

Reserves include: Hastings, Saltdean, Peacehaven, Horsham, Burgess Hill, Maidstone, Chatham, Uckfield

I guess your map stops on the Sussex border?!

You need to get out more!!

 

[BN9 BHA]

The thing about Newhaven i like is that it seems like a place with an actual reason for being there. Sure it's run down and has had a huge incinerator dumped on it, but I prefer it to places like peacehaven which imo is a soulless nothing sort of a place, a suburb of some town thats been removed and plonked on the cliffs.

Agree with you here, i was born in Brighton and lived there most of my life but been in Newhaven 12 years and i could think of worse places to live, whoever designed the traffic system did it in the dark or does not drive!