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Bredbury and Woodley

Bredbury and Woodley. Mostly Bents Lane.
Twinned with a warehouse the size of Woodley

72/100Crap Score

277th crappest of 984 towns, and 43rd in Greater Manchester. Higher scores are crapper.

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Bredbury's stuck on Bents Lane.

Woodley's got a canal tunnel and Bredbury's got warehouses the size of towns. The traffic's shared out fairly.

Bredbury and Woodley are two places stuck together, and neither looks thrilled about it. Woodley has the canal, with a tunnel on it. Bredbury has the big sheds, the lorries going in and out of them, and Bents Lane, where everything ends up stopping. The banks have gone from Woodley precinct, and if you want somewhere to eat there's not much past the pub.

The Goyt's lovely, bar what the overflows put in it, nearly six times the typical town's spill hours. The air is half as bad again as the typical town's, and some idiot sets a fire nearly three times as often. It pisses down on 162 days a year as well, so the queue on Bents Lane sits there with its wipers going. Of the 15 takeaways with a rating, 2 get a hygiene rating of 0 to 2, more than three times the typical town's share.

What the score is made of

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

Bredbury and Woodley's 91 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 91% of towns.

  • Sewage spills91/1001,617 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Air pollution86/10012.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Rain86/100162 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Deliberate fires83/10015.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Food hygiene61/1003.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 88 food businesses with a rating
  • Fly-tipping60/10011.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Stockport council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Serious road collisions49/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Criminal damage and arson43/1006.6 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
  • Anti-social behaviour33/10012.5 per 1,000 people a year, July 2023 to June 2026
  • Broadband26/1005.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 5.1% across the Stockport council area
Your patch: Greater ManchesterTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
39Prestwich210th79
40Wigan228th77
41Hyde251st75
42Atherton254th74
43Bredbury and Woodley277th72
44Shaw278th72
45Droylsden299th70
46Tyldesley311th68
47Westhoughton313th68

Bredbury and Woodley 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

Stockport council

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Bredbury and WoodleyCrap Score 72
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RomileyCrap Score 42

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