Coppull

Coppull. The train still doesn't stop.

Twinned with a station that might reopen

46/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 46. Higher scores are crapper.

How the score works

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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27

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Station? Maybe next decade.

An old mill, no station and a housing estate on every field going.

Coppull's got a big old cotton mill, a handful of pubs and no railway station. They've been begging for it back for years and getting housing estates instead, one field at a time. Crime's low. Nothing happens. Nothing.

Except the sewage. The storm overflows go off for more than nine times the typical town's hours. It's wet on 167 days a year, and one in fifty premises can't get superfast broadband, four times the typical town's share.

The editor, who drove, because what else

What the score is made of

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

Coppull's 96 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 96% of towns.

Sewage spills96/1002,522 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Rain89/100167 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Anti-social behaviour62/10016.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Serious road collisions51/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Broadband38/1006.5% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.9% across the Chorley council area
Air pollution37/1007.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
Food hygiene30/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 29 food businesses with a rating
Fly-tipping28/1007.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Chorley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Criminal damage and arson18/1004.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Deliberate fires13/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026

**Your patch: Lancashire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
27	Barnoldswick	363rd	63
28	Poulton-le-Fylde	386th	61
29	Ormskirk	483rd	51
30	Thornton	509th	48
–	Coppull	–	46
In danger of becoming nice from here down.31	Lytham St Anne's	602nd	39
32	Euxton	638th	35
33	Penwortham	645th	34
34	Longton	741st	25

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Coppull 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

Chorley council

Have a crap-off

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

Against

CoppullCrap Score 46

StandishCrap Score 49

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