Radcliffe on Trent

Lovely river walk. Don't go in the river.

Twinned with a cliff walk above the sewage

32/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 32. Higher scores are crapper.

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Radcliffe. Temporary lights again.

A nice walk along the cliff above the Trent. Stay above it. The sewage is below.

Radcliffe on Trent has a lovely walk along the cliff over the river, woods and lily ponds, and Radfest once a year. It knows it's nice. Look down off the cliff, though, and the sewers overflow for five times as long as the typical town's. Cracking view of it from up there.

Back in the village there are hairdressers everywhere, 3.4 times the typical town's per head, and nowhere to swim since the pool shut in 2014. There's always a temporary traffic light somewhere, the council's B roads are knackered and somebody always barges in at the merge. Rushcliffe charges £2,643 on a Band D home for all this. That's a lot of money for a haircut and a queue.

The editor, who got pushed out at the merge

What the score is made of

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

Radcliffe on Trent's 88 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 88% of towns.

Sewage spills88/1001,365 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Broadband85/10014.2% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 19.1% across the Rushcliffe council area
Food hygiene70/1005.9% rated 0 to 2, of the 34 food businesses with a rating
Air pollution56/1008.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of fine particles, 2024 average
Criminal damage and arson39/1006.3 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Fly-tipping32/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Rushcliffe council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Serious road collisions21/1001.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Rain19/100117 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Anti-social behaviour17/1009.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Deliberate fires9/1001.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026

**Your patch: Nottinghamshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
13	Mansfield Woodhouse	446th	55
14	Balderton	450th	54
15	New Ollerton and Ollerton	451st	54
In danger of becoming nice from here down.16	Beeston	642nd	35
17	West Bridgford	658th	33
–	Radcliffe on Trent	–	32
18	Arnold	735th	25
19	Carlton	739th	25
20	Bingham	823rd	16

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Radcliffe on Trent 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

Rushcliffe council

Have a crap-off

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Against

Radcliffe on TrentCrap Score 32

CotgraveCrap Score 17

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