Crap Towns / Shropshire / Bayston Hill
Bayston Hill
3/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 3. Higher scores are crapper.
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Big cat? Never found it. Typical.
They once sent a helicopter to look for a big cat. That's the most exciting thing that's happened.
Bayston Hill sits on the edge of Shrewsbury and gets very arsey if you call it a town. The biggest thing to happen in years was somebody seeing a big cat, and they got the helicopter out. Found sod all. Crime is running at about a fifth of the typical town's. The nearest thing to a riot was the fight to keep Glebelands green.
For all the countryside round it, more than four in ten people live over 400 metres from a park or play space. The storm overflows spill at twice the typical town's rate. And there's no bus at all on a Sunday, so if the big cat ever does turn up, you're walking.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bayston Hill's 68 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 68% of towns.
- Sewage spills68/100564 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband68/1004.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 25.4% across the Shropshire council area
- Rain57/100132 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene42/100
- Deliberate fires24/1003.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution9/1003.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping9/1004.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Shropshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions9/1000.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour0/1004.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson0/1001.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telford | 59 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.2 | Shrewsbury | 39 |
| 3 | Newport | 29 |
| 4 | Oswestry | 28 |
| 5 | Bridgnorth | 23 |
| 6 | Ludlow | 19 |
| 7 | Market Drayton | 8 |
| – | Bayston Hill | 3 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bayston Hill by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 16.7 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 78% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 52 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 99.6 per 10,000 people, 29.3x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2024
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs, 1 hairdresser, 1 charity shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 9.45pm last bus out on a Wednesday, and none on a Sunday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.7% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 3.4x the typical town's 0.5%
- 42.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 2.8x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,391 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 9% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Shropshire council
Have a crap-off
Bayston Hill against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.
- ?Fly-tippingper 1,000, council area?
- ?Anti-social behaviourper 1,000 people?
- ?Serious road crashesper 10,000 people?
- ?Sewage spillshours per 10,000 people?
- ?Food hygienerated poor?
- ?Criminal damageper 1,000 people?
- ?Dirty airµg/m³?
- ?No gigabitof premises can't get it?
- ?Deliberate firesper 10,000 people?
- ?Raindays a year?
Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.