Woodville

Used to be called Wooden Box. Honestly.

Twinned with a wooden toll booth

23/100Crap Score

Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 23. Higher scores are crapper.

How the score works

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Crap Town of the Year 2026/27

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Should've stayed Wooden Box

A pottery village named after a toll booth, and it still has the kiln to prove it.

Woodville used to be called Wooden Box, after the wooden hut where they took the tolls, which is a cracking name, and they went and changed it. It made pots, pipes and bricks, and the old kiln's still standing. It sits right on the line between Derbyshire and Leicestershire, so neither of them has to own it.

There's one Greggs, and that's lunch. St Stephen's church has made the Heritage at Risk register, and the storm overflows round here spill for 1.7 times as long as the typical town's. Everyone still ends up queuing at the Clock Roundabout, wishing it was still a wooden box with a bloke in it.

The editor, stuck at the Clock Roundabout

What the score is made of

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

Woodville's 63 for sewage spills means it's crapper than 63% of towns.

Sewage spills63/100469 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
Criminal damage and arson62/1008.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Rain51/100128 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
Air pollution49/1006.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of fine particles, 2024 average
Serious road collisions43/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
Food hygiene34/1000.0% rated 0 to 2, of the 22 food businesses with a rating
Broadband31/1004.6% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 7.4% across the South Derbyshire council area
Anti-social behaviour29/10011.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
Fly-tipping14/1005.3 incidents per 1,000 people a year, South Derbyshire council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
Deliberate fires13/1002.2 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026

**Your patch: Derbyshire**Towns in the same county. Top of the table is crappest.
Pos	Town	National	Score
11	Ilkeston	557th	43
12	Buxton	572nd	42
In danger of becoming nice from here down.13	Hadfield	634th	36
14	Long Eaton	661st	33
–	Woodville	–	23
15	Brimington	767th	22
16	Glossop	831st	16
17	Swadlincote	847th	14
18	Belper	904th	8

Below the dashed line: in danger of becoming nice.

Woodville 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

South Derbyshire council

Have a crap-off

Woodville against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.

Against

WoodvilleCrap Score 23

SwadlincoteCrap Score 14

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