Bamber Bridge

Home of Brig Henge. It's a hole in the pavement.

Twinned with a hole in the pavement

72/100Crap Score

274th crappest of 984 towns, and 23rd in Lancashire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Brig. Watch the fucking road.

Somebody dug up a pavement and buggered off, so locals named it Brig Henge.

Somebody dug up a pavement in Brig, buggered off and never came back. Briggers called it Brig Henge, and gave it more thought than whoever was meant to finish the job.

Meanwhile drivers dodge the Station Road lights by tearing down the side streets, the lorries do the same, and the bad crashes happen at nearly twice the typical town's rate. Anti-social behaviour is double the typical town's as well.

There have been 16 serious pollution incidents round Brig since 2016, four of them major, and the landfill likes to make itself known. It's wet on 165 days a year. Wet and stinking, then.

The editor, who looked both ways three times

What the score is made of

Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.

Bamber Bridge's 93 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 93% of towns.

Anti-social behaviour93/10029.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Serious road collisions93/1004.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Rain88/100165 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Sewage spills76/100754 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Deliberate fires66/1008.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Criminal damage and arson55/1007.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Air pollution53/1009.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of fine particles, 2024 average
Broadband35/1003.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 11.6% across the South Ribble council area
Food hygiene24/1001.5% rated 0 to 2, of the 206 food businesses with a rating
Fly-tipping5/1004.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Ribble council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25

**Your patch: Lancashire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
19	Skelmersdale	147th	85
20	Fulwood	176th	82
21	Chorley	191st	81
22	Clitheroe	227th	77
23	Bamber Bridge	274th	72
24	Leyland	306th	69
25	Cleveleys	351st	64
26	Heysham	361st	63
27	Barnoldswick	363rd	63

Bamber Bridge by numbers

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Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

South Ribble council

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Bamber BridgeCrap Score 72

PenworthamCrap Score 34

Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.