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Brockworth

We throw ourselves down a hill after a cheese.
Twinned with a cheese rolling down a hill

31/100Crap Score

682nd crappest of 984 towns, and 10th in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Broken legs over a cheese

Every spring people chase a cheese down Cooper's Hill and break bones. The rest of the year, bookies and Greggs.

Brockworth's big thing is grown adults throwing themselves down Cooper's Hill after a Double Gloucester. They break bones. For a cheese. Then the crowds block every road in the place. They used to build aircraft here. Now they're famous for falling over.

The rest of the year it's bookies, Greggs and houses, and 2 pubs. There are four public swimming pools, over four times the typical town's per head, which you'd think would give the lunatics something softer to throw themselves into. And 106 premises can't even get the legal minimum broadband, so they can't watch it on their phones either.

What the score is made of

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

Brockworth's 68 for anti-social behaviour means it's crapper than 68% of towns.

  • Anti-social behaviour68/10017.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Serious road collisions63/1002.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Rain59/100133 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Food hygiene47/1002.2% rated 0 to 2, of the 45 food businesses with a rating
  • Broadband46/1005.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 12.3% across the Tewkesbury council area
  • Air pollution45/1008.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Deliberate fires26/1003.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Fly-tipping24/1007.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Tewkesbury council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Criminal damage and arson16/1004.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Your patch: GloucestershireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
6Kingswood and Fishponds600th39
7Tewkesbury608th38
8Quedgeley and Hardwicke622nd37
9Cirencester631st36
10Brockworth682nd31
11Yate683rd31
12Stoke Gifford687th30
13Churchdown751st24
14Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne774th21

Brockworth by numbers

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Crime, muck and dodgy water

What's left on the high street

Getting about, getting online, getting rained on

Tewkesbury council

Have a crap-off

Brockworth against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

BrockworthCrap Score 31
v
GloucesterCrap Score 66

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