Edenbridge

We burn a giant effigy every year. It's the highlight.

Twinned with a bonfire and a cancelled train

56/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 56. Higher scores are crapper.

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Last train's at what time?

The big night of the year is a bonfire. The rest of the year, the trains stop early.

Edenbridge builds a giant effigy of someone in the news every November and burns it, and that's the year's entertainment done. The High Street's got Greggs and not a lot else, the last train to London goes early, there's no secondary school and the vandals are bored out of their skulls. You can tell.

The last bus leaves at 6.51pm and there are none at all on a Sunday, so the bored lot can't even go and be bored somewhere else. The storm overflows round the town spilled for 2.8 times as long as the typical town's. It does have over four times the typical town's Greggs per head. That's the one Greggs.

The editor, who missed the last train

What the score is made of

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

Edenbridge's 84 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 84% of towns.

Criminal damage and arson84/10010.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Broadband82/10010.1% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 23.8% across the Sevenoaks council area
Sewage spills77/100758 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
Anti-social behaviour73/10019.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Serious road collisions54/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Air pollution41/1006.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
Rain37/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Fly-tipping32/1008.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Sevenoaks council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Food hygiene23/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 44 food businesses with a rating
Deliberate fires18/1002.9 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026

**Your patch: Kent**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
14	Herne Bay	350th	64
15	Faversham	353rd	64
16	Margate	362nd	63
17	Swanley	402nd	59
–	Edenbridge	–	56
18	Whitstable	437th	56
19	Ashford	439th	55
20	Minster	458th	54
21	Snodland	489th	50

Edenbridge 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

Sevenoaks council

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