Crap Towns / Patchway / Pollution incidents
How often does Patchway get polluted?
5 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Patchway or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 231st most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in December 2025 and put petrol on the land and in the air. Smoke turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Petrol | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| December 2025 | Suspended solids | In the water | Significant |
| November 2022 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| November 2020 | Waste oil | In the water | Significant |
| July 2017 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | In the air | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 8.9 km | 16 |
| Bradley Stoke | 2.1 km | 8 |
| Filton | 2.0 km | 7 |
| Stoke Gifford | 3.6 km | 7 |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 8.2 km | 6 |
| Patchway | – | 5 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 6.6 km | 1 |
| Yate | 10.8 km | 1 |