Crap Towns / Greater Manchester / Bredbury and Woodley
Bredbury and 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
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | Prestwich | 79 |
| 40 | Wigan | 77 |
| 41 | Hyde | 75 |
| 42 | Atherton | 74 |
| 43 | Bredbury and Woodley | 72 |
| 44 | Shaw | 72 |
| 45 | Droylsden | 70 |
| 46 | Tyldesley | 68 |
| 47 | Westhoughton | 68 |
Bredbury and Woodley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 72.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (July 2023 to June 2026) Better: 6% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 5 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 2.9 per 10,000 people, 15% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2018
What's left on the high street
- 12 pubs, 3 hairdressers, 2 bookmakers on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 13.3% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (2 of 15) Worse: 3.3x the typical town's 4.0%
- 6 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 3.5 per 10,000 people, 2.2x the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
- 1 place on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 1.02am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 20.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 34% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,355 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 12% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Stockport council
Have a crap-off
Bredbury and Woodley 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.