Crap Towns / Mid Glamorgan / Beddau
Beddau
36/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 36. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Not as dead as the name.
The pit and the coke works have gone. What's left is quite nice, and Bedwas is fuming.
Beddau's name means graves, which is a hell of a thing to stick on the road sign. The colliery and the coke works are long gone and the place has turned out annoyingly decent. Crime's low, nobody nicks your bike, and even the broadband's good.
The worst of it is the rain, 170 days a year of it, and lads on off-road bikes screaming round after dark, and sewage going where it shouldn't. And Bedwas, at the rugby.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Beddau's 92 for rain means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Rain92/100170 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills89/1001,427 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping71/10015.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rhondda Cynon Taf council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Broadband44/1001.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 18.6% across the Rhondda Cynon Taf council area
- Food hygiene29/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 30 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution27/1007.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson25/1005.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour14/1009.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions14/1001.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Maesteg | 53 |
| 7 | Tonypandy | 52 |
| 8 | Mountain Ash | 49 |
| 9 | Tonyrefail | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.– | Beddau | 36 |
| 10 | Church Village | 35 |
| 11 | Bridgend | 32 |
| 12 | Pyle | 25 |
| 13 | Sarn | 10 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Beddau by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 58.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 24% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 14 reports of litter and bins on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 19.0 per 10,000 people, 21.1x the typical town's 0.9
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.26am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 17.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 10% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,535 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Rhondda Cynon Taf council
Have a crap-off
Beddau 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.