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

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

Leysdown on Sea. Absolute hell hole, makes Blackpool look like Monte Carlo.

There are some beautiful places in Kent, the Isle of Sheppey is not one of them.

I agree with Blackpool, Barrow and Bradford. I don’t agree with York, Whitby, Sheffield or the entirety of Norfolk…

Yet the reverse has happened for my town

Not saying it hasn't happened to the towns either side of us, but there they built big shopping malls or out of town retail parks where the multinationals are, so their high streets have died

Our town , our multinationals are at the bottom end of the high street - Tesco, Lidl, Home Bargains and Poundland, all with free car parking , so people come to our town, park there and then come on up the high street where the only other multi nationals are subway and savers, every other shop is an independent or a NI chain

We also have big carparks at the top of the town, parking 50p an hour , and high street disabled bays and loading bays

Our retail parks are the other side of town, and again, they are local businesses

Not saying the town doesnt ebb and flow, we have had periods of every other shop being a charity shop, but we still have 4 butchers, a greengrocers, a fish van weekly , two banks and post office , shoe shops and clothes shops, dry cleaners, pet shop, opticians, Health food shop - even a great wool shop and a couple of Jewellers and the best shop of all sells everything you need for your home with a big toy department - they have always been there in the 20 years Ive lived here . The rest may come and go so the high street is constantly changing, but they are local owned and run

I don't disagree with your sentiment but there are plenty of non Northern places mentioned.

I was brought up in Gosport (military dad) and now live in Fareham. I worked for over 20 years in Portsmouth (Hilsea).

Although I've never liked inner Portsmouth, there are some lovely areas around it and I can never get over how stunning the views are if you are on Portsdown Hill and can look right out to sea, it really is beautiful.

When I was having a series of operations at QA, being a tad nervous about anaesthetic, I asked the taxi driver to go over the hill to the hospital so if I didn't come out of the first operation successfully, my last memory would be of the fabulous early morning view out to sea rather than the traffic on the M27. 😆😂

I live in the FOD and it's beautiful, the local villages are admittedly stuck in a time warp so you won't get any fantastic shopping done but if you want uninterrupted nature walks and good pubs you won't go wrong

Chatham and maybe all of the Medway towns. It doesn’t help that the rubbish is collected in black bin bags, often put out the night before and the foxes help distribute the contents.
Middlesborough. I have only driven past and there was definitely a smog and smell.
Luton
Brechin was depressing.

Blackpool is a shit hole.
Hate Brighton, nice beach but people are rude and not friendly.

Yes I felt the same - it wasn't the cheerful seaside place I was expecting.

I’m originally from Gourock and I completely agree about Greenock. It just has an “energy” about it that I can’t quite put my finger on. I always feel a bit sorry for the cruise tourists there. The bus stops at West Stewart St can be quite entertaining, though 😂.

For me it’s Motherwell. It makes Greenock look good - especially the shopping centre near the train station.

North Prospect = Swilly

Rhyl must have been bad as it was listed twice!

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isnt fit for humans now. (so apparently hasnt been for a long time).

Port Talbot
Aberystwyth

Northampton

Bensham, it is a suburb of Gatehead. We were going somewhere else in Gateshead and some roads were closed so the sat nav took us on a diversion. So very glad the car did not choose that moment to break down.

We live in what is often considered to be a ‘deprived’ area ourselves but this was another level.

Oh yes, it's awful there, and Bedford and Peterborough are as bad

Blackpool. Goes without saying.

Brighton. Dirty and malevolent.

Woking. A grabby, grasping sort of a place with racial tensions, a town centre so bad it was demolished and rebuilt and is still absolutely appalling, and weekend streets full of squaddies and undesirables fighting. The only good thing about Woking is the fast train out of there to Waterloo.

Saltburn on Sea - not the charming seaside town it was advertised to be. Grim and derelict, Sainsbury’s had been ram-raided.

Wisbech - unnerving

Bugger, I meant to put it three times! 😃 I find Rhyl extra depressing because we used to go there as children and it was brilliant back in the 80s through young eyes!

Bedford is nicer than Northampton by quite some way!

The theatre is nice in Northampton though.

Wexham village in Slough. The place felt lawless

Interesting that some people have said Isle of Sheppey. I just watched Danny Dyer’s show filmed at the caravan park there in Leysdown.

It looks like a charming olde worlde seaside town with a very nice beach but anyone I know who has visited found it the strangest place, and on the show people were spending £££ on caravans.

I recently went to Oxford. The university part was breathtaking, like being in Venice. But away from that it is quite grotty - piles of litter everywhere, gangs of teenagers at night, aggressive drunks. The train station stunk of weed and had a forgotten feel to it, all the restaurant staff seemed rude and unfriendly.

It wasn’t the worst place I’ve ever been but there was an undercurrent of menace and decay. I was very glad to leave.

Sorry, meant Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Most places here are horrible though and if they are not they have so many visitors that they become horrible