Crap Towns / Lancashire / Longridge
Longridge
64/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 64. Higher scores are crapper.
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Rougher than it looks
A stone town by the fell, with too much aggro and far too much rain.
Longridge quarried the stone for big buildings all over Lancashire and sent it down to Preston on its own railway. Now it's covering its fields in estates, and the road to Preston queues every rush hour instead.
It rains on 169 days a year, over 1,200 mm of it, and the sun puts in 1,373 hours. For somewhere this pretty it's got a lot of aggro, with anti-social behaviour at one and a half times the typical town's rate, and the high street has more charity shops and vape shops per head than most towns. Plenty of pubs, mind, and a fell to walk it off.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Longridge's 91 for rain means it's crapper than 91% of towns.
- Rain91/100169 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Serious road collisions81/1003.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour79/10021.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Broadband63/1008.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 13.4% across the Ribble Valley council area
- Fly-tipping55/10010.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Ribble Valley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires47/1005.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson41/1006.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene38/1001.6% rated 0 to 2, of the 63 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution21/1005.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills17/10031.6 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Chorley | 81 |
| 22 | Clitheroe | 77 |
| 23 | Bamber Bridge | 72 |
| 24 | Leyland | 69 |
| – | Longridge | 64 |
| 25 | Cleveleys | 64 |
| 26 | Heysham | 63 |
| 27 | Barnoldswick | 63 |
| 28 | Poulton-le-Fylde | 61 |
Longridge by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 57.8 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 24% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 1.1 per 10,000 people, 68% lower than the typical town's 3.4
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 9 pubs, 6 hairdressers, 7 charity shops, 1 bookmaker, 3 vape shops, 2 banks on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 0.0% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (0 of 16) Better: Against the typical town's 4.0%
- 1 banking hub opened here
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.1 per 10,000 people, 31% lower 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
- 11.58pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.9% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 1.8x the typical town's 0.5%
- 9.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,373 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Worse: 10% lower than the typical town's 1,532
Ribble Valley council
Have a crap-off
Longridge 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.