Ugly and boring towns...

[wellquickwoody]

I would nominate Stoke-on-Trent for ugliness. Strange place made up of 5 towns which doesn't gel into one city. It is named after Stoke but the town of Hanley is the commercial and main centre. Have been there twice and opinion never changed.
Yes, Brighton & Hove is a city made up of two towns but firstly Brighton is the first named and is accepted as the main centre. Also travelling between both is seamless.

Possibly the most grim, and most grimey, northern hellhole I have ever had the misfortune to visit on more than one occasion. If there are worse places I have yet to visit them, and if they are in existence they should be flattened, along with Stoke.

 

[BN9 BHA]

...........and the West Country nominations are ........dum,dum,dum :

Trouble over at Bridgwater, and........

Woeston-Super-Mare (although this is a seaside resort, and therefore miles better than Brighton and Hove.)

Anyone who says Worthing really ought to get out more.

I tell you what - spend a week in Bridgwater in Somerset and then you'll know what dull and ugly really mean.

Is Bridgwater really that bad?
I went to a place called Kilve in Somerset last year and went to Bridwater a few times, it did look like someone had stolen a town like Barnsley and dumped it in Somerset.

 

[Davemania]

Whoah there! Have you been to Heathfield? Or Hailsham?

Good shout, whilst Uckfield may not be the most exciting place it is a damn sight better than Heathfield or Crowborough, similar sized towns. Its quite a nice place to live these days

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

Is Bridgwater really that bad?
I went to a place called Kilve in Somerset last year and went to Bridwater a few times, it did look like someone had stolen a town like Barnsley and dumped it in Somerset.

Bridgwater IS that bad, even the locals have an expression 'NFB' for strange looking individuals....'normal for Bridgwater'

 

[BN9 BHA]

There is a surprise, 3 pages and 50 posts and up pops Doug Deep with Newhaven, what took you so long this time?
Bet you shop in our Lidl.

 

[BN9 BHA]

3 pages and no mention of Newhaven? Or Polegate? Or East Grinstead?

All of these along with Crowborough, Ringmer, Southwick, Fishersgate and Lancing.

Carefull Miss Gull!!

 

[Dick Head]

I've had a nice time in a lot of these places.

 

[Leighgull]

I've had a nice time in a lot of these places.

No one has ever had a nice time in Birkenhead FACT. Even trips to Tranmere never result in anything more than a defeat or a turgid draw.

Likewise it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a nice time in Newport, Gwent. It just can't be done.

 

[Notters]

East Grinstead?

Proper grim!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Stoke (Burslem in particular)
Sittingbourne
Fishersgate

Total utter shitholes, the lot.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Stoke (Burslem in particular)
Sittingbourne
Fishersgate

Total utter shitholes, the lot.

Sittingbourne? your lovely neighbour!

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Hailsham farmers market is a big drawer, if you want some livestock I should imagine?

It has that market every Friday...what makes Hailsham a star place it has free parking everywhere...

 

[Fountainhead]

Hemel Hempstead ? How very feking dare you!
There are hundreds of places worse than that.... The immediate environs of Priestfield and Selhurst are proof of that.
..Luton, Leighton Buzzard,Grimsby,Scunthorpe, most of Kent etc etc

 

[MissGull]

Carefull Miss Gull!!

No careful about it, I replied to the OP with some suggestions for ugly dull towns.

 

[Norman Potting]

Proper grim!

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Quite agree with EG. Even Uckfield is quite good for shopping.

 

[Heffle Gull]

Good shout, whilst Uckfield may not be the most exciting place it is a damn sight better than Heathfield or Crowborough, similar sized towns. Its quite a nice place to live these days

How can you call Heathfield dull? We even have a Costa Coffee shop now! oh!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Lancing, Burgess Hill, Hatfield, Southampton.

It pains me to say it, but Southampton is actually not a bad place to live near.

And hands off Lancing. My brother lives there. It's not that bad, and there is the excitement of having a training ground soon.

 

[Scampi]

Two towns I find incredibly dull are East Grinstead and Haywards Heath. Awful commuter land snobbery in both.

 

[poidy]

Cumbernauld

Merthyr Tydfil

Newport

Croydon

Stockton-On-Tess

Hessle (Humberside)

Most of East London

 

[Czechmate]

Blackburn , only one or two reasonable pubs , bleak and still very racist . Well I went for the football , there might be some good bits but I couldn't see them , i'd wanna do this if I lived there