What's the worst place you've ever been in the UK?

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Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Yes, are u down there? I havnt been before

Campbeltown is one I’d forgotten about.

It felt half abandoned, there seemed to be one man that kept showing up everywhere because he was doing half the jobs in the town, our bnb host seemed desperate for someone to speak to and there was some kind of naval exercise going on in the bay so every morning I was woken up by a nuclear submarine shouting over it’s tannoy at fishing boats as they went out for the morning.
And to top it off I was down their for work and one of the locals I had to work with was a creepy old lech

Shops sell gollies in many seaside towns. (And small tourist towns.) They even sell them on the market stalls in the shires. Oddly, of all the times I have been to Blackpool, I have never seen them there. 🤔

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@XDownwiththissortofthingX ahh Romania I remember seeing a doc about the orphanages in the 80’s it was heartbreaking and most of those babies grew up to be street kids with terrible lives and mental health issues.

Wisbech. It has a pretty riverside walk and a lovely National Trust property, but is full of very weird people.

I used to defend Birmingham to the death but even I can't defend the city centre anymore. It is just atrocious and genuinely stinks. The bins issue doesn't help, but that doesn't account for the piss.

Toxteth in the 1990s. Was on a bus and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so unsafe.

Lytham. I can’t explain why but I went for a holiday there a few years ago and couldn’t wait to leave. I felt on edge all the time there and felt relieved to take a day trip to Manchester.

the shops sell golliwogs...

The most damning indictment of any of the multitude yet mentioned in this thread 😮

There was a display of gollies at Bletchley Park with a weirdly defensive sign about them. I wonder if they are still there. It was about ten years ago.

Agree about Thetford. Bleak.

Methil in Fife. I got lost on the way somewhere with two young kids in the car and we ended up going round and round in Methil and taking wrong turnings. Ugh it was beyond grim. I started to feel like I was in some king of dystopian sci-fi film and would never get out. Even the name sounds dodgy.

I bet the only reason it’s not winning the thread is hardly anyone has ever been there.

Yes. This. Birmingham was the closest big city for me growing up as well and it was great. It felt like the city was "on the up"... VERY MUCH NOT ANYMORE

Bradford makes me so sad though - it has great bones 😢 beautiful architecture, rich history, green spaces and so close to the dales. How can it have gotten so bad so quickly

@WhatterySquash

Methil is particularly striking and incongruent, because for the most part that area of Fife is lovely, and even the more tired places have a little charm of their own. But Methil is just, well, nope.

Slough, maybe Luton as runner-up. I don't know about northern towns, I don't have any occasion to go up north. I had to go to Barnsley for work once and thought that a pretty grim place, but that was a while back, and perhaps it is better now. Slough is truly awful, much worse than its actual reputation.

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I grew up in Ilkeston and agree, it's a shit pit now. It never used to be. I live in Derby and it's a dump.

I was there recently and felt the same. We cancelled the evening outing, ordered in and were straight out the next morning. I felt terribly sad to see the deprivation as well. Really weighed on me that a place can be so neglected.

My Goodness, you've lead a charmed life if you think Exeter is terrible!

I hear what youre saying but dont think this is a regionalist thing as it seems like the close runner up to Blackpool here is Slough. There must just be a very jarring feeling about Blackpool that posters find more upsetting than the more single note towns

I don't generally like to use the term 'inbred', but there is definitely a 'Norfolk look'.

We went to North Wales for a wedding once and had a day to go off and explore. We went to Beddgelert because I wanted to see the memorial to Gelert.

I thought it was a lovely village, surrounded by beautiful countryside.

I also like Portmeirion and Brighton, both of which have been mentioned.

On the other hand, I have never been to Blackpool and, from everything I have seen and read about it, have absolutely no intention of ever going.

DP quite often goes in the summer because he loves Rebellion, the punk festival. But he says that the town is a shithole.

I found Coalville a hard day out many years ago.

Banbury can be quite nice but I turned a couple of wrong corners a few weeks ago and Lord above it was rough as shite.

Parts of Hartlepool have that vibe, particularly the Headland and all the industrial area around Seaton Carew. One of the bus routes down to Middlesbrough takes you past acres and acres of glistening pipeline and it's weirdly spectacular to look at.

Nottingham.

But I love Dungeness,so remote and other worldly.

There’s some little lovely bits like Elie and St Andrews but most of Fife is pretty grim ime.