Crap Towns / Wiltshire / Corsham
Corsham
5/100Crap Score
Known as Sham.
937th crappest of 984 towns, and 14th in Wiltshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
It's the bloody peacocks.
No vandals, no yobs. Just peacocks screaming in the street and scratching your car.
Corsham is so nice they filmed Poldark here. Bath stone, a stately home, hardly any crime. The only gang in town is the peacocks. They scream round the houses at all hours, scratch your car and eat your garden, and nobody can do a thing about it.
There's no public swimming pool and no park on the map, so the peacocks have the streets to themselves. If the worst thing in your town is a bird, shut up and count your blessings.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Corsham's 74 for broadband means it's crapper than 74% of towns.
- Broadband74/1007.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.1% across the Wiltshire council area
- Rain64/100137 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene52/1002.7% rated 0 to 2, of the 37 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires34/1004.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution24/1006.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping21/1005.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Wiltshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions21/1001.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour10/1008.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson10/1004.0 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
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Warminster | 30 |
| 7 | Chippenham | 29 |
| 8 | Calne | 24 |
| 9 | Westbury | 24 |
| 10 | Stratton St Margaret | 22 |
| 11 | Amesbury | 20 |
| 12 | Royal Wootton Bassett | 16 |
| 13 | Tidworth | 11 |
| 14 | Corsham | 5 |
Corsham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 36.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 52% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 91% lower than the typical town's 20.4
- 3 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 2 hairdressers, 1 charity shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 cash machine closure assessed by LINK
- 2 public toilets on the map (October 2026) Better: 1.8 per 10,000 people, 13% higher than the typical town's 1.6
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.45pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 10.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Better: 34% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,635 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 7% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Wiltshire council
Have a crap-off
Corsham 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.