Barugh Green and Redbrook

It's said Bark. That's the interesting bit.

Twinned with a dog stuck at a roundabout

63/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 63. Higher scores are crapper.

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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27

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Woof.

The name's the only interesting thing. The rest is roundabouts and fly-tipping.

Barugh is pronounced Bark, and that's the best fact we've got. The rest is queues at the roundabouts, fields going under the Barnsley West houses and the road flooding by Claycliffe Road. Sewage comes out of the overflows nearby for over four times as long as in the typical town.

Nobody smashes anything up, to be fair. Criminal damage is about half the typical town's. There's 7 pubs and no swimming pool, which tells you how people round here spend an evening. Not even big enough for the league, and still crap.

The editor, who sat at the roundabout for ages

What the score is made of

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

Barugh Green and Redbrook's 86 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 86% of towns.

Sewage spills86/1001,181 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Serious road collisions86/1004.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Fly-tipping83/10020.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Barnsley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Food hygiene54/1003.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 32 food businesses with a rating
Air pollution53/1008.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
Rain51/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Deliberate fires38/1004.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Broadband26/1003.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 8.7% across the Barnsley council area
Anti-social behaviour14/1009.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Criminal damage and arson9/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026

**Your patch: South Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
16	Dunscroft and Hatfield	235th	76
17	Adwick le Street	263rd	73
18	Warmsworth	296th	70
19	Maltby	347th	65
–	Barugh Green and Redbrook	–	63
20	Swinton	380th	61
21	Scawthorpe and Cusworth	428th	57
22	Darton	507th	49
23	New Rossington and Rossington	537th	45

Barugh Green and Redbrook by numbers

Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.

Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Barnsley council

Have a crap-off

Barugh Green and Redbrook against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

Against

Barugh Green and RedbrookCrap Score 63

DodworthCrap Score 52

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