12 Worst Towns in the UK - My Subscriber's List

When I released my video about the worst towns in the United Kingdom, I knew the reaction would naturally be great. That’s why I didn’t expend so much energy calling for your comments on that sizzling topic. What I didn’t know was how passionate your comments would be. I pretty soon realized how passionate some of my subscribers were about those towns, on the list. Some believed that I omitted some towns that were actually worse than the ones in my video. Others thought some of those towns aren’t as bad as portrayed. By popular demand, I’ve attempted to scrutinize the separate listings from my subscribers and I present the following as the commonest 12 worst towns in the UK.
12. Coalville, England
Almost all of my subscribers agree that Coalville, an industrial town in the district of North West Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England, is one of the worst towns in the UK. Located on the A511 trunk road, it’s between Leicester and Burton-upon-Trent. It’s also close to junction 22 of the M1 motorway. That’s the point where the A511 meets the A50 when you’re between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leicester.
The town which was once a mining town hasn’t come out of its past even after all the pits have closed. The end of the coal business turns the Coal-village into a ghost town as shops are leaving the town as if it just came out of a depressive decade-long recession.
11. Strabane, Northern Ireland
Strabane in Northern Ireland also features on my subscribers’ list. The town on the east bank of the Foyle River which is roughly in the middle of Omagh, Derry, and Letterkenny, in Tyrone County, has held on to its infamous tag as one of the worst places to live in the UK. It recently came 8th worst place out of 434 local authority areas throughout the UK in popular research. Using the criteria such as home-buying, environment, crime, education, employment, and lifestyle, Strabane hasn’t come out of the extensive damage it suffered between the 1970s and the 1990s when it was one of the most bombed towns in Europe.
10. Scunthorpe, England
The next town featuring on my subscribers’ list is Scunthorpe, a large industrial town in North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England. I was sure no one would disagree with the inclusion of Scunthorpe which is the UK’s largest steel processing center on this list. In a recent online vote, it was voted the 4th worst place to live in the UK. Many of my subscribers mentioned the horror of entering, visiting, or living in this third largest settlement in Lincolnshire. Some others were pissed off by the sites of litter on the street filled with the air polluted by the steelwork.
9. Blackpool, England
Blackpool was also sure to be on lists like this. I’ve not received any solid criticism for listing Blackpool as one of the worst towns in the UK. The large town and a seaside resort in Lancashire in England has every reason to be here. The employment situation in the town has remained bad since 2015 when only 65 percent of the people there were employed. This invariably lowers the gross income of the people. Meanwhile, house prices and the general cost of living aren't correspondingly low. Expectedly, life expectancy there is relatively low by the UK standard.
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[@onelife7247]

England could quite easily have been a tiny luxury, boutique country prospering in blissful neutrality - like Switzerland, such is it’s huge global influence beautiful counties steeped in history. Sadly, local councils /politicians have no respect for their own land nor their subjects/ citizens. Pure greed and misspent funds on outside interests instead of prioritising the infrastructure and needs of indigenous and existing UK residents.

[@kathleencook4674]

I'm unfortunate enough to live in Scunthorpe, here the air is so polluted that we wake up each morning to the sound of the birds hacking, everything's covered in coal dust and the people just look downtrodden, they wander the litter covered town centre with a look of sheer misery on their care worn faces

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

West Bromwich Tipton Wolverhampton are worse is then scunthorpe they are worse town in England

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

I think that dudley is rough as well as West Bromwich Walsall Wolverhampton and Smethwick 👍

[@gmc9451]

Wisbech should definitely be on this list. It's the first town I've visited in the UK and not felt safe. It had an almost lawless feel to it. I couldn't wait to leave and get back to Leicester; so that tells you how bad it is.

[@dalewollaston6665]

Burton upon Pothole I mean Trent should be on a newer version of this list I think. It’s depressing atmosphere, false advertising to try to bring ANYONE to the town and dependency on an industry that while central to the towns history is being taken apart and ripped out of the town piece by piece. The towns roads are so ignored by the council that there is as much pothole as there is road in some streets. The towns latest advertising for tourists suggests the National Arboretum is in Burton when it’s actually down the A38 in Alrewas with no direct bus running there from the town centre says it all really.

[@narsbrahim]

I received a job offer in Harlow, Essex and because of this video...Im not pursuing to work in Princess Alexandra Hospital as Harlow, Essex belongs to the 12 worst towns in the UK. yoohoo!

[@johnenfield1930]

Strabane is pronounced "Stra-bann", not "Stra-bain"! And I'm not even Irish.

[@brothersman524]

Rochdale, Oldham and Luton are the worst 3 for sure but Gravesend, Scunthorpe and Blackpool are awful too. But I would add Slough, Stevenage, Walsall, Corby and Mansfield in there

[@Durgesuth]

Walsall is the pits…. A once proud town .. now a complete cesspit

[@brothersman524]

@@Durgesuth Walsall is bloody horrible

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

Yes I agree Walsall is a rough town just like Wolverhampton West Bromwich and dudley they should be on the list 🇬🇧

[@brothersman524]

@@Bingo-zd1gp I agree. Dudley, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich are bad too but Walsall is the pits

[@Durgesuth]

Go back 30 years and these towns were great Walsall and Wolverhampton had great night spots and were always busy… West Bromwich had one of the best High Streets in the country… Walsall was always packed with shoppers… Today they look third world…. beggars… low life’s drunks… empty shops litter never cleaned up and pigeon shite

[@duncanyoung390]

Arbroath Angus Scotland should be definitely on this list

[@jamietierney3910]

Also not on this list which some may question is actually Chester and I'm a Cestrian myself . This is a city of huge imbalance. The best part of this place is the city centre, which is perhaps the north wests best city centre. The outskirts though like Blacon, Lache , Kingsway are crap frankly and Blacon notorious, and remember this is Cheshire however Chester and Runcorn are not like proper leafy East Cheshire. There's not really any middle ground here. The centre is just a front really for the huge amounts of tourists that visit every year.

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Co'ville holding its own with the heavy weights like Rochdale. Given its an obscure town compared to t'others its quite an achievement to make it onto the list. Its redeeming feature is its kebab house, Kashmir Tandoori. Best kebab I've ever had, they make everything fresh.

[@stevebriggs1746]

good to hear the kashmir still going strong,left coalville over 20 years ago for canada

[@robertbuckley2429]

Swindon Remains outside the top 12 worst towns everyone would agree

[@TheMG4hubcap]

RHYL!? HOW!

[@scotmorley8526]

Wetherfield has to be the worst for murder

[@mrswigglebottom967]

In my opinion the towns with green and trees look a lot wealthier. The poorer the cities/towns the less greenery there is, although lots has been spent on spying on people instead (see my video on Blackpool). In the UK here is a dire lack of green within walking distance in the cities/towns. I know that in Luton they ripped up the town square green with hundreds yr old trees and paved it over with slabs from China that cost 3 million pounds. It now complements the dingy shopping centre with boarded up shops. Hypocritical when we are told to go green and nothing is planted. Towns were beginning to reap the benefits of industry when Thatcher, at the behest of her global masters, decimated industry in the UK After that the decline continued to the sad state of affairs now. The younger gens born into it know nothing better. Also British people, including prince Charles, like to hang on to the traditional ways and are not open to change/improvement/modernisation.

[@Durgesuth]

You made interesting points Notice how front gardens have disappeared and made way for paved or tarmac parking? I can say from experience the Black Country conurbation was full of Lyme trees…. To clean the air…. All the biggest houses in the towns lined the parks… Today many trees have gone… not replaced and new migrants tend to like chopping them down in their gardens….

[@mrswigglebottom967]

​@@Durgesuth Thanks. A relative lives in an area where migrants are the big majority and I can concur with your last statement. They are more interested in accruing cars and house extensions. Indeed a lot of trees have gone and the gardens used as a dumping grounds (because the council charges to remove large waste). The councils are also responsible for chopping down trees and that particular council has many migrants at the helm. The English led councils are just as bad. It is called progress?

[@Durgesuth]

@@mrswigglebottom967 Yes I think we’ve got to a dead end with progression at best we struggle to maintain what we’ve taken for granted in our cities and towns I had a conversation recently about progress with an older couple who said the Blackcountry had a massive network of electric trolley buses in the 40s and 50s which could take you to any destination…. Today we have a light tram line that travels to Birmingham and Wolverhampton…it constantly breaks down due to defects in the system and is expensive to operate . They also said nothing was waisted with food and make do and mend was the norm… So much was recycled We are only treading water at best and in many ways going backwards….

[@TheSimonC90]

Ooh Harlow definitely isn't the worst here in Essex. Clacton and Grays are far worse

[@jamietierney3910]

This is rather questionable. St Helens in Merseyside/Lancashire is grim, really grim. This place is disproportionately crap compared to the rest of the county, housing estates almost in the town centre, the town centres shops are much abandoned, then also to have 3 , YES 3 adult gaming centres in one frankly very small town centre (it was previously 4!) targeting the already very poor and vulnerable, well this says a lot. Also most supermarkets only central, nothing on the outskirts barely. Also this place has no Central library, nor a fully functioning police station and court. The only thing that saves this place is the friendliness and spirit of the people.

[@stevewild6478]

There are a lot worse towns than those around, those are more like city's than towns.

[@TheMostNortherN]

I came to Doncaster from Ukraine 8 months ago. Local people who I spoke with told me that Doncaster is crap town.

[@rabbits3757]

But Rochdale countryside very Beautiful ❤️

[@kalkk8730]

Yeovil slipped through ig

[@welshhibby]

Why isn't London on here ?

[@DJ_Dopamine]

It's a City. Not a Town.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Rochdale is basically "Luton of the North".

[@immir6647]

Dartford should be here. Gravesend is a dive no doubt but so is Dirtford and in my opinion it's worse than Gravesend. Haven't been to either in a long while mind left chav central ASAP

[@mahreda5335]

what do you think about Bedford Town ???

[@Wawan-ur2lb]

I from Indonesia 🙇

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

Luton: I'm the king of crap

[@jacobersno6955]

Bradford Must be in the list !!

[@brothersman524]

It is not a town, it is a city BUT it was on one of the videos as being the worst UK city

[@jacobersno6955]

@@brothersman524 yeah , it is the worst! Trashford :))

[@paulrooney1933]

You mean Bradistan , yeah it's a complete shithole if you are not part of the Islam culture.

[@maverickhistorian6488]

Twinned with Islamabad

[@ZzKk618]

Bolton should have been on the list

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

Yes would of said Wolverhampton Walsall and West Bromwich was the 3 worst place in the UK 🇬🇧👍🙄😅😂😁

[@Durgesuth]

And definitely most of Birmingham too👍

[@rigamortice]

There should be a lot more Scottish towns on this list, which just goes to show the research was flawed

[@lorddaver5729]

Edinburgh should be top of the list.

[@marshaldillon4387]

Number 5. Why is it a bad place for Girls ?

[@Reverend-Rodger]

You take out what you put in.

[@davidbrown3231]

Not much mention of ethnic factors and also crime rates especially Murder, GBH, Street gangs

[@violentinstincts]

lol fuck this, Paisley is awesome.

[@tlnkj1910]

I’m glad to be from the biggest steel place but the crime poverty and drug addicts everywhere is horrible rats run across the streets in Scunthorpe it’s horrible sofas on streets with crackheads lying on them glad I moved out of there

[@philiphowell1505]

I escaped Sheffields spice girls, beggars and muggers. During my 50 years as an industrial plumber paying tax and national insurance I naively thought that we were paying for and keeping a decent civilised country fit to hand over to our younger generation with an even better standard then we had. How that went down the pan. A vote for brexit, a vote for an 80 seat majority cabal soon stripped away all my ideals. Luckily I was there before the last lifeboat was launched, so love from a happy legal resident of the EU and Gran Canaria.

[@rigamortice]

We are glad to see the back of you

[@philiphowell1505]

@@rigamortice Funny, that's just what I thought about you as I watched the runway disappear on my final boring four and a half flight here.

[@markpallister9882]

Change the spelling to SCUMTHORPE 😂😂

[@ZzKk618]

Bolton should have been on the list