Crap Towns / Gwent / Bedwas
Bedwas
79/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 79. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
Bedwas. Lorries, lorries, lorries.
The pit's gone. The coal tips are still hanging over the place.
Bedwas lost its pit and kept the coal tips. Now they're shifting them, so the whole village is arguing about lorries. The Bedwas Bridge roundabout jams every morning already, so you can see why everyone's in a mood.
There are 11 hairdressers, nearly four times the typical town's per head, so at least they're arguing with a fresh trim. Sewage comes out of the overflows for nearly 12 times as long as in the typical town, and that's nothing to do with lorries. There's a Greggs, five times the typical town's per head. That's the good news.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bedwas's 98 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 98% of towns.
- Sewage spills98/1003,223 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Rain85/100161 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Criminal damage and arson77/1009.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Fly-tipping67/10014.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Caerphilly council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Food hygiene62/1004.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 50 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour57/10016.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires50/100
- Serious road collisions45/1002.3 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Broadband38/1004.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.3% across the Caerphilly council area
- Air pollution37/1008.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Blackwood | 92 |
| 7 | Caerphilly | 88 |
| 8 | Pontypool | 86 |
| 9 | Ystrad Mynach | 85 |
| – | Bedwas | 79 |
| 10 | Cwmbrân | 75 |
| 11 | Chepstow | 59 |
| 12 | Abergavenny | 57 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.13 | Monmouth | 31 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Bedwas by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 75.4 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 76.2
- 4 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 6.2 per 10,000 people, 1.8x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.32pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.5% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,550 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Caerphilly council
Have a crap-off
Bedwas 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.