Crap Towns / Nottinghamshire / Ravenshead
Ravenshead
19/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 19. Higher scores are crapper.
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They found gold, then built houses on it
They found a gold hoard while building houses. They've been building houses ever since.
Ravenshead is a posh village on the edge of Sherwood Forest that found a hoard of medieval gold while building an estate. Since then it's just kept building estates. It used to be three hamlets, Fishpool, Larch Farm and Kighill, and now the locals moan it's turning into a town. They're not wrong.
Crime is a fraction of the typical town's. Nobody vandalises anything, nobody shoplifts, nobody so much as raises their voice. The danger is on the main road, where the bad crashes happen at 2.1 times the typical town's rate, the right turns are a nightmare and the road markings vanished after the resurfacing. It's the quietest place going, right up until you try and pull out.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Ravenshead's 92 for serious road collisions means it's crapper than 92% of towns.
- Serious road collisions92/1005.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Food hygiene61/1006.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Rain53/100129 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution50/1007.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Broadband40/1007.0% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 6.5% across the Gedling council area
- Fly-tipping33/1008.2 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Gedling council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires16/1002.4 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Criminal damage and arson0/1002.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Anti-social behaviour0/1003.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Mansfield Woodhouse | 55 |
| 14 | Balderton | 54 |
| 15 | New Ollerton and Ollerton | 54 |
| In danger of becoming nice from here down.16 | Beeston | 35 |
| 17 | West Bridgford | 33 |
| 18 | Arnold | 25 |
| 19 | Carlton | 25 |
| – | Ravenshead | 19 |
| 20 | Bingham | 16 |
Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.
Ravenshead by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 19.9 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 74% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 2 problems reported on FixMyStreet in the year to October 2026 Better: 3.7 per 10,000 people, 82% lower than the typical town's 20.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs, 2 hairdressers 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
- 12.46am last bus out on a Wednesday Better: Later than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.7% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Worse: 40% higher than the typical town's 0.5%
- 31.1% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space, and OS maps no public park here Worse: 2x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,515 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Gedling council
- £2,610 Band D council tax (2026-27) Worse: £218 more than the English average
- 19% of Nottinghamshire County Council's unclassified roads should have been considered for maintenance (2025-26) Worse: 19% higher than England's 16%
- None ombudsman complaints upheld against the council in 2025-26
- More on the council
Have a crap-off
Ravenshead 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.