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Hadfield

Royston Vasey. They're sick of the joke.
Twinned with Royston Vasey

36/100Crap Score

634th crappest of 984 towns, and 13th in Derbyshire. Higher scores are crapper.

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Every visitor does the same joke

The League of Gentlemen filmed here. Locals have heard every joke about it, every day.

Hadfield was Royston Vasey on the telly, so every visitor does the local shop joke and the locals want to lamp them. The library's shut, the pool shut in 2016 with nothing coming to replace it, and Glossop has the pubs and things to do. Hadfield has a reservoir. Cracking reservoir.

It's wet on 167 days a year and the sun hardly shows, which you'd think was enough water for one valley. The storm overflows don't agree: they spill at more than 14 times the typical town's rate. The local yobs set fire to the bins nearly twice as often as in the typical town. The buses are decent, at least, so in theory you can leave. Anyone who's seen the show knows how that goes.

What the score is made of

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

Hadfield's 99 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 99% of towns.

  • Sewage spills99/1003,905 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
  • Deliberate fires73/10010.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
  • Air pollution53/1008.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of fine particles, 2024 average
  • Broadband44/1003.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.7% across the High Peak council area
  • Serious road collisions37/1002.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
  • Food hygiene33/1001.4% rated 0 to 2, of the 74 food businesses with a rating
  • Criminal damage and arson28/1005.5 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Anti-social behaviour24/10010.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
  • Fly-tipping6/1004.1 incidents per 1,000 people a year, High Peak council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Your patch: DerbyshireTowns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
PosTownNationalScore
9Ripley523rd47
10Somercotes and Swanwick526th47
11Ilkeston557th43
12Buxton572nd42
In danger of becoming nice from here down.13Hadfield634th36
14Long Eaton661st33
15Brimington767th22
16Glossop831st16
17Swadlincote847th14

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Hadfield 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

High Peak council

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

HadfieldCrap Score 36
v
HattersleyCrap Score 52

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