Crap Towns / Hampshire / North Baddesley
North Baddesley
18/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 18. Higher scores are crapper.
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Best bit: it's near Romsey.
A commuter sprawl with a heath, a bog and no supermarket.
North Baddesley is a big commuter village near Romsey, and locals reckon the best thing about it is being near Romsey. That's the review. There's a heath, a nature reserve called Emer Bog, and bugger all else. The only bog in North Baddesley is that one.
You have to leave the village for milk, there's 1 pub and no public pool, and the internet's rubbish, with over three times the typical town's share of premises unable to get superfast. Castle Lane queues every rush hour. No crime. No anything.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
North Baddesley's 85 for broadband means it's crapper than 85% of towns.
- Broadband85/10011.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 24.4% across the Test Valley council area
- Food hygiene61/1006.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires61/1007.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Rain41/100124 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Sewage spills38/100151 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2024 to 2025
- Fly-tipping38/1008.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Test Valley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Air pollution32/1007.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Serious road collisions25/1001.6 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson9/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour2/1006.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Aldershot | 23 |
| 12 | Tadley | 22 |
| 13 | Fareham | 20 |
| 14 | Lymington | 18 |
| – | North Baddesley | 18 |
| 15 | Emsworth | 17 |
| 16 | Waterlooville | 14 |
| 17 | Fleet | 14 |
| 18 | Yateley | 12 |
North Baddesley by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 40.3 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 47% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 43 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 61.4 per 10,000 people, 18.1x the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 1 pub, 2 hairdressers, 1 charity shop 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
- 12.01am last bus out on a Wednesday About the same: About the same as the typical town's 12.14am
- 1.6% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 3.2x the typical town's 0.5%
- 8.7% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 44% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,664 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 9% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Test Valley council
- £2,306 Band D council tax (2026-27) About the same: £86 less than the English average
- 8% of Hampshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 50% lower than England's 16%
- 1 ombudsman complaint upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
North Baddesley 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.