Menston

Still a village. We'll tell you so.

Twinned with a stone cottage with the lights off

41/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 41. Higher scores are crapper.

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Nice stone village with trains to Leeds. You'll need them.

Menston is a nice stone village on the edge of the moor, and it'll tell you it's still a village however many houses they add. There are barely any shops and nothing to do in the evening, so you get the train to Leeds. Cars rammed down Cleasby Road make the buses go round, and the fly-tipping is worse than you'd think. Lovely moor.

Crime's about half the typical town's and nobody kicks off, so the Menstonians have to fall out over the parking. The rain turns up on 144 days a year and the sun's out for 1,342 hours. 15.8% of homes can't get gigabit broadband, so even working from home means a trip to Leeds. The grounds of the old High Royds Hospital are on the Heritage at Risk register.

The editor, who got there after tea

What the score is made of

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

Menston's 93 for fly-tipping means it's crapper than 93% of towns.

Fly-tipping93/10032.7 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Bradford council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Broadband73/10015.8% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 4.5% across the Bradford council area
Rain70/100144 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Sewage spills62/100445 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Serious road collisions58/1002.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Air pollution35/1007.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
Food hygiene35/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 21 food businesses with a rating
Deliberate fires17/1002.6 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
Criminal damage and arson2/1002.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Anti-social behaviour1/1003.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026

**Your patch: West Yorkshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
30	Honley	433rd	56
31	Otley	448th	55
32	Ilkley	514th	48
33	Guiseley	516th	48
34	Kippax	555th	44
35	Yeadon	563rd	43
36	Garforth	571st	42
–	Menston	–	41
In danger of becoming nice from here down.37	Wetherby	822nd	16

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Menston 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

Bradford council

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MenstonCrap Score 41

Burley in WharfedaleCrap Score 40

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