Crap Towns / Surrey / Wrecclesham
Wrecclesham
8/100Crap Score
Too small for the table, which starts at 10,000 people, but it still scores 8. Higher scores are crapper.
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Another lorry's stuck.
Wrecclesham has a low railway bridge. Lorry drivers can't read the sign.
Wrecclesham made green pottery and bricks and is a perfectly nice village. It has a low railway bridge, and lorry drivers keep driving into it. Then the whole place stops. The rest of the time the big lorries go down roads too narrow for them, past the schools. Nobody else causes any bother: crime's under a third of the typical town's.
Nearly half the premises can't get gigabit broadband, so when a lorry's wedged under the bridge again you can't even watch it online. Half the village lives more than 400 metres from a park, there's no pool, and there are 5 pubs and 1 hairdresser.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Wrecclesham's 99 for broadband means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Broadband99/10048.7% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 28.9% across the Waverley council area
- Food hygiene61/1006.3% rated 0 to 2, of the 16 food businesses with a rating
- Serious road collisions52/1002.5 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Rain40/100124 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
- Air pollution33/1006.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Fly-tipping17/1005.9 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Waverley council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Deliberate fires10/100
- Sewage spills2/1000.0 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour0/1004.7 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Criminal damage and arson0/1001.6 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Farncombe | 23 |
| 32 | Godalming | 22 |
| 33 | Ash and Ash Vale | 19 |
| 34 | Weybourne | 12 |
| 35 | Great Bookham and Fetcham | 9 |
| 36 | Ashtead | 8 |
| – | Wrecclesham | 8 |
| 37 | Frimley | 4 |
| 38 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh | 3 |
Wrecclesham by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 24.0 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Better: 69% lower than the typical town's 76.2
- 303 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Worse: 414 per 10,000 people, 121.8x the typical town's 3.4
- 3 serious pollution incidents within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2025
What's left on the high street
- 5 pubs, 1 hairdresser 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
- 10.22pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier 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%
- 49.8% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 3.2x the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,625 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) Better: 6% higher than the typical town's 1,532
Waverley council
Have a crap-off
Wrecclesham 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.