Shittest town in the UK?

Vesterberg

UPDATE

Ok, I think a shitlist of 20 is large enough, the festering scabs in your regions are:

Welsh Shitholes:
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport
Cwmbran
Rhyl
South West Shitholes
Swindon
Midland Shitholes
Stoke-on-trent
Corby
Walsall
Ilkeston
North East Shitholes
Middlesborough
Gateshead
North West Shitholes
Skelmsersdale
Blackpool
Bradford
Runcorn
South East Shitholes
Luton
Milton Keynes
Peterborough
Scottish Shitholes
Cumbernauld
Denny

Despite Yossies brilliant and impassioned plea for Alsager, I'm lumping it in with Stoke.

These will go into a Poll and the for the winner I will start an online petition to have it prefixed with '$hit' for example 'Shit Walsall' or for all civic and road signs to have 'Voted Britain's Shittest Town' underneath. More than 100k and it has to be debated at least.

rolf_f

I think you are being hard on Northampton there - it's not the happiest place in the world but it could be a hell of a lot worse. It could be Swindon.

john-e-big-guns

It could be quite Shitty in Broardbottom

GiantMike

Blackpool. That is all.

davehmercer

I'd like to put Croydon up for that award!

Having lived there for most of my life I can confirm its pretty shitty! I have managed to get away but still work there



Thanks

majormantra

Luton?

big_p

one word...........skelmersdale, id rather live in that bog in trainspotting than skem.

RonB

I'm reminded of the Idler book on Crap Towns.

"It's...The...1960's Town Planners!

Gentlemen. If it looks like a bunker, smells like a bunker and allows sunlight in like a bunker: logic dictates-then-that- it is a library, or a school, hospital or town hall."

Top in that one - Hull - the gateway to Europe :shock:

LeicesterLad

Middlesborough. The End.

pdstsp

On LEJOG last year rode through outskirts of Cumbernauld and centre of Denny. I would have both on your list.

crispybug2

Canvey Island


It's not hell, but you can see it fom there!!

team47b

Shitterton, Dorset?

jordan_217

LeicesterLad wrote:

Middlesborough. The End.

Middlesbrough ain't a bad town at all, it's just the town everyone loves to hate. Granted there's a lot of nobs around the place on a Friday and Saturday night but pan 180 degrees and you've got some of the best cycling routes and scenery in the country. The End.

Spend a few years in Huntingdon, Kettering or Corby then see what you think about Boro.

verylonglegs

Bathgate or Great Yarmouth.

nweststeyn

Places where I've played gigs and found to be absolutely miserable:

- Stoke on Trent
- Margate
- Yeovil

and on account of being stabbed in the leg, I have to add

- Southend on Sea

campbellrae1

Plenty of total sh!te holes in Scotland, Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire would be high up on my list of places to avoid. As mentioned above Cumbernauld is a dump, same as Motherwell, Coatbridge, Livingston and most of Glasgow!

tim_wand

Grantham. Won a poll not long back as the most boring town in Britain, and it gave us Maggie!!! thats reason enough alone.

Redeems itself because of Isaac Newton , but he was actually born in Woolsthorpe (6 miles away).

arthur_scrimshaw

Wouldn't agree with Portsmouth, some bad areas but an interesting and historic City. Wiggle also live there, should I complain?

I'd agree about Margate however.

Frank the tank

Despite being Hucknall born and bred the town now is a pale shadow of it's former self.

Blackpool, smells of shit and is awful.
Redditch, on account of the football teams supporters.
Grantham, Thanks Tim although it seems harsh blaming the town itself.

McBain_v1

Another one for Skelmersdale here. It is uncomfortably close to us at the moment but having driven through that miracle of New Town Planning populated by plastic scallies I can honestly say that wiping it off the map and starting again could not be construed as too drastic.

RichN95.

Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale. Utter crapholes of the highest order.

A lot of South Wales makes Mordor look like Center Parcs.

Bozman

Burton
Ilkeston
Blackpool
Skegness
Dover
Ramsgate

Cities - Birmingham, head and shoulders above/below anywhere else

whojanicanackerov

Blackburn
Burnley

nevman

Heanor-mystery why anyone lives there.

shockedsoshocked

jordan_217 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Middlesborough. The End.

Middlesbrough ain't a bad town at all, it's just the town everyone loves to hate. Granted there's a lot of nobs around the place on a Friday and Saturday night but pan 180 degrees and you've got some of the best cycling routes and scenery in the country. The End.

Spend a few years in Huntingdon, Kettering or Corby then see what you think about Boro.

Don't tell everyone mate!

Yeh it's a shit hole. Don't come here, or i'll fight you personally

lucan

Another vote for the $hithole that is Skelmersdale

And after today's visit I would add the city full of shops that are either closed down, closing down, pound-shops or pawnbrokers - Preston

shouldbeinbed

Rochdale has some awful grim bits. Huddersfield always feels like a trip back to the 70s and South Elmsall is like the theme park for those 60s kitchen sink depresso-dramas, the whole hovel is in Black & White, but the mouldiest growth on the turd of existence is Rhyl.

LeicesterLad

oh, obviously I forgot to add Leicester. It wins praise for being multicultural, but integrated it aint! The city is a dreary grey/brown mess and the city council do their very best to spend regeneration money on making it worse - a 'Cultural quarter' on the outskirts of the most crime ridden, drug riddled, gang divided estate in the county. Good thinking batman.

DF33

For Gods sake, Bradford.

The Council / government ripped the city centre out too a few years ago for... wait for it.... a marina!
Then the recession hit and they simply put a cheap fence around most of the city centre and left it as the development couldn't be funded.

As city it is one huge sh!t hole.





Good curries though.

xscreamsuk

Used to live about 4 miles from Skem, but have never truly visited the place, why would you?
Wolverhampton was pretty rancid the half day I spent there.
8 years in Rotherham and no desire to go back there, other than visit Planet X :-)

geoffgomez

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Slough yet.