Worst Places to Live in the UK - Blackpool

Is Blackpool really bad? That question begs our discussion in view of loads of negative reviews and low ratings of this large town in Lancashire. We found that it is the worst-rated town in the UK and we have discussed that in one of our videos. We have also seen that it's one of the worst seaside towns in England; one of the videos has highlighted that also. Blackpool has also been rated as one of the most depressed. Do all these mean that the town of Blackpool is one of the worst places to live in the United Kingdom? That is exactly what we are going to prove in this video. We shall be as objective as possible on this.
Blackpool’s Great Beginning
Our retrospective look at Blackpool will give us an idea of where the town is coming from. We can then take a more rational perspective when analyzing it as one of the worst places to live in the UK. We have to travel in time way back to days before the start of railways when seaside towns started growing. Indications are that the town had likely been settled around 11,000 years ago. A Roman coin believed to have been used around AD 80 was found in the town.
Let’s veer briefly into etymology and dialectology to exhume facts about the coinage of the town’s name. There was a great discolored water in that area a long time ago called ‘le pull.’ As the waters flowed along, it’d discolor streams draining Marton Mere and Marton Moss by peat lands. While running alongside this area, the stream created a pool.
Naturally, the stream would reflect the color of its water which was seemingly black. It was draining into the sea near the location now known as Manchester Square. Hence, the pool was described as black. The location of that black pool was named “Blackpool.” That name first appeared in the 1602 baptismal register of Bispham parish as ‘Blackpoole.’
The town was so famous in the past that the Squire of Myerscough, Edward Tyldesley, who was the son of the Royalist Sir Thomas Tyldesley, built ‘Foxhall’ towards the end of the 1600s, the first building in the area. How did the entire area fare in those days and thereafter?
Blackpool’s Year of Glory
Anyone that saw images- moving or still- or read about this town in the 1870s would howl and groan because of its current condition. Is this not the same town with four large and prominent hotels that the affluent and wealthy in the society beyond the town were patronizing? If there was anything like that, they could be rated 8-star hotels in those days.
The year 1846 came with an event that aided the early growth of Blackpool. It had to do with the ease of movement brought about by the completion of a branch line from Poulton to Blackpool on the main Preston and Wyre Joint Railway route connecting Preston and to Fleetwood. Blackpool gained tremendously from the losses this brought to Fleetwood resort.
As the town started growing, there was an influx of traveling to the town via rail.
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#blackpool

[@nathelondon3719]

I live in Blackpool for 15 years and enjoyed every minute.

[@Bleakoctober]

Black pool is so fun to be in it’s just stereotypical about how we act I agree I’ve lived in Blackpool for 19 years and it’s been grest

[@jlazain]

Grimsby / Cleethorpes is worse than Blackpool

[@stevenjoy3537]

All relative. If a person has sufficient money and not needing work, Blackpool is better than London Friendly people, nice coastline

[@ReeseJamPiece.]

Better than London? I get education isn't the best in the north, but common sense would dictate better to live in London than a poverty-stricken drug-addicted dump like Blackpool.

[@Robert10075]

I moved from Northwest London to South Shore Blackpool and I say there is positives and negatives in both

[@thenyloncurtain]

I ❤ Blackpool 🤷🏼‍♀️🇬🇧

[@ellismeah8110]

Many people in the country want to move to blackpool , theirs many towns and citys much worse than blackpool up and down the UK

[@sharonnewton3760]

Click bait!

[@jamesbaird9691]

It's BLACKPOOL NOT BLACK WOOD! Get it right!

[@ndenyer]

That was bonkers. A commuter town, but no transport links? And you couldn't even get the name right half the time.

[@les8347]

If you won't epic depression live in colne Lancashire

[@Y0URL0CALM0NKEY12]

Blackpool is the most incredible place in the uk? You don’t even live there so you don’t know how it feels like?

[@bossman1774]

This Guy has a negative bias on everything he posts. Stop following him. Now that’s positive!

[@johncgibson4720]

Nice video all around. But 8:05 young woman looks too healthy to be a real addict. Likely an actor.

[@malcolmhall6525]

Any one been to Preston ,what a load of rubbish ,,UTMP

[@markwolstenholme3354]

11,000 years ago?????😂.

[@PlasticGirl65]

Rubbish, Blackpool is great.