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Forest Town

No forest. Lots of lads revving Corsas.
Twinned with a hatchback with no exhaust

55/100Crap Score

443rd crappest of 984 towns, and 12th in Nottinghamshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Revving at midnight, every night

A model mining village, and a supermarket car park full of lads revving engines at midnight.

Foggo was built as a model village for the miners. The pit's gone and the model's seen better days. At night the supermarket car park fills with lads revving engines and leaning on the horn like they're owed something. And there's no bloody forest.

There aren't many pubs either, 3 for the lot of them, so the car park is the night out. Tea's a gamble: low hygiene ratings are more than three times as common as in the typical town, and nearly four times at the takeaways. Mansfield council's fly-tipping runs at 1.7 times the typical council's, and the grass gets torched for something to do.

What the score is made of

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

Forest Town's 82 for food hygiene means it's crapper than 82% of towns.

  • Food hygiene82/1007.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 53 food businesses with a rating
  • Fly-tipping78/10018.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Mansfield council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
  • Deliberate fires70/1009.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Air pollution65/1008.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Serious road collisions59/1002.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Sewage spills49/100260 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
  • Rain38/100123 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
  • Anti-social behaviour25/10011.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Criminal damage and arson17/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Broadband12/1003.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.0% across the Mansfield council area
Your patch: NottinghamshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
8Stapleford289th71
9Eastwood323rd67
10Hucknall359th64
11Retford390th60
12Forest Town443rd55
13Mansfield Woodhouse446th55
14Balderton450th54
15New Ollerton and Ollerton451st54
In danger of becoming nice from here down.16Beeston642nd35

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Forest Town 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

Mansfield council

Have a crap-off

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

Forest TownCrap Score 55
v
Mansfield WoodhouseCrap Score 55

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