Crap Towns / Merseyside / Lydiate
Lydiate
12/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 12. Higher scores are crapper.
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Lydiate. The bridge is up again.
A quiet village on the canal, a ruined hall and a lot of objections to new houses.
Lydiate's a quiet village with the canal, some swing bridges that stop the traffic for a bloke on a boat, and a ruined hall. Hardly any crime, hardly any crashes, hardly anything. The only row is over the housing plans on the farmland, and every meeting goes on until someone switches the lights off.
For somewhere this tidy, 2 of the 21 food businesses with a rating score 0 to 2 for hygiene, four times the typical town's share. That's the lot.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Lydiate's 78 for rain means it's crapper than 78% of towns.
- Rain78/100154 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Food hygiene75/1009.5% rated 0 to 2, of the 21 food businesses with a rating
- Fly-tipping66/10013.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Sefton council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires40/1005.1 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Air pollution38/1008.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband31/1002.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 11.7% across the Sefton council area
- Serious road collisions8/1000.8 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Sewage spills6/1001.2 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson1/1002.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour0/1002.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Litherland | 59 |
| 12 | Bebington | 50 |
| 13 | Crosby | 48 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.14 | Maghull | 36 |
| 15 | Southport | 34 |
| 16 | West Kirby | 29 |
| 17 | Formby | 27 |
| 18 | Heswall | 16 |
| – | Lydiate | 12 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Lydiate by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 25.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 66% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 10 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 15.3 per 10,000 people, 13.9x the typical town's 1.1
- 2 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2026
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 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
- 12.08am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.2% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 13.9% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 10% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,487 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Sefton council
Have a crap-off
Lydiate 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.