Crap Towns / Gloucestershire / Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne
21/100Crap Score
774th crappest of 984 towns, and 14th in Gloucestershire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Badminton Road. Again.
They used to make hats here. Now they make sewage, and the Frome gets it.
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne used to make felt hats and dig coal. Now it's commuter land outside Bristol, where everyone drives and Badminton Road is jammed solid.
Crime runs well below the typical town's and nobody's smashing anything up. The Frome valley walks are lovely until you notice the shit coming out of the pipes, with the overflows running for nine times as long as the typical town's. Long name. Lot of sewage.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne's 96 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 96% of towns.
- Sewage spills96/1002,469 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene63/1004.1% rated 0 to 2, of the 49 food businesses with a rating
- Rain58/100132 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution54/1009.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband50/1005.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.6% across the South Gloucestershire council area
- Serious road collisions31/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Fly-tipping26/1007.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Gloucestershire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires6/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson2/1002.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour0/1004.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Cirencester | 36 |
| 10 | Brockworth | 31 |
| 11 | Yate | 31 |
| 12 | Stoke Gifford | 30 |
| 13 | Churchdown | 24 |
| 14 | Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 21 |
| 15 | Bradley Stoke | 6 |
| 16 | Bishop's Cleeve | 6 |
| 17 | Thornbury | 2 |
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 43.1 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 43% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 97 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 64.8 per 10,000 people, 19.1x the typical town's 3.4
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 9 pubs, 10 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 1 bookmaker on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 0.7 per 10,000 people, 56% lower than the typical town's 1.6
- 1 public swimming pool open About the same: 0.7 per 10,000 people, about the same as the typical English town's 0.7
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 12.12am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 25.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 1.7x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,611 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 5% higher than the typical town's 1,532
South Gloucestershire council
- £2,551 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £159 more than the English average
- 9% of South Gloucestershire council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 44% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
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Have a crap-off
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne 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.