Crap Towns / Leicestershire / Measham
Measham
25/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 25. Higher scores are crapper.
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Measham. Famous teapots, made elsewhere.
Measham ware is famous. Most of it was made up the road.
Measham is famous for Measham ware, big brown teapots that were mostly made round Church Gresley. The museum is in the old railway station, which has no trains. The canal restoration got stuck when HS2 got scrapped. Warehouses are eating the farmland.
It's quiet and safe, and nobody crashes. The sewers are another matter. The overflows run for nearly 22 times as long as the typical town's. That's not a typo. Of its food businesses, 14.3% score 0 to 2 on hygiene, and on a Sunday 5 buses leave all day. Lovely teapots, mind.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Measham's 99 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Sewage spills99/1005,960 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Food hygiene85/10014.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 21 food businesses with a rating
- Broadband67/10011.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 10.5% across the North West Leicestershire council area
- Rain55/100131 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution35/1006.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Criminal damage and arson32/1005.8 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Deliberate fires28/1003.7 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Fly-tipping14/1005.5 incidents per 1,000 people a year, North West Leicestershire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Anti-social behaviour11/1008.4 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions1/1000.1 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Melton Mowbray | 33 |
| 6 | Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe | 32 |
| 7 | Enderby and Narborough | 29 |
| 8 | Whitwick | 27 |
| – | Measham | 25 |
| 9 | Shepshed | 13 |
| 10 | Hinckley | 11 |
| 11 | Mountsorrel | 10 |
| 12 | Earl Shilton | 9 |
Measham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 54.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 28% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 1.9 per 10,000 people, 1.7x the typical town's 1.1
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
- 11.42pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 0.0% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: Against the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,482 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
North West Leicestershire council
- £2,418 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £26 more than the English average
- 11% of Leicestershire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 31% lower than England's 16%
- 2 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Measham 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.