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Old Windsor and Wraysbury
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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Older than Windsor. Tells everyone.
Old Windsor had a royal palace before Windsor did. It brings it up a lot.
Old Windsor had a palace before Windsor had a castle, and won't shut up about it. Wraysbury has reservoirs and old gravel pits to sail on. Neither has any crime worth mentioning. What they do have is the Thames coming in the front door, motorway noise, and Heathrow planes so low you can wave at them.
Sewage went in the water nearby for nearly five times the typical town's hours, so when the Thames does come in the front door, it brings company. Half the place lives more than 400 metres from the nearest park or playground, with Windsor Great Park next door. The last bus is at 9.07pm. Wave at a plane instead.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Old Windsor and Wraysbury's 88 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 88% of towns.
- Sewage spills88/1001,327 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Air pollution83/10011.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband48/1004.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 14.2% across the Windsor and Maidenhead council area
- Fly-tipping37/1008.8 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Windsor and Maidenhead council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Serious road collisions35/1001.9 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene28/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 33 food businesses with a rating
- Deliberate fires25/100
- Criminal damage and arson9/1003.9 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Rain8/100112 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Anti-social behaviour2/1004.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Reading | 44 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.3 | Newbury | 37 |
| 4 | Ascot | 22 |
| 5 | Windsor | 21 |
| – | Old Windsor and Wraysbury | 18 |
| 6 | Thatcham | 17 |
| 7 | Bracknell | 7 |
| 8 | Maidenhead | 6 |
| 9 | Wokingham | 5 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Old Windsor and Wraysbury by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 46.6 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 39% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 33 reports of broken street lights on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 42.9 per 10,000 people, 61.3x the typical town's 0.7
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2020
What's left on the high street
- 4 pubs, 4 hairdressers, 1 vape shop on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 1 public toilet on the map (October 2026) Worse: 1.3 per 10,000 people, 19% 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
- 9.07pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.3% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 40% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 50.3% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 3.2x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,693 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 11% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Windsor and Maidenhead council
- £1,953 Band D council tax (2026-27) Better: £439 less than the English average
- 2% of Windsor and Maidenhead council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Better: 88% lower than England's 16%
- 12 ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Old Windsor and Wraysbury 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.