Idler Book of Crap Towns
The 50 Worst Places to Live in the UK
Edited By Sam Jordison & Dan Kieran
December 2003
Boxtree
ISBN: 0-7255-1582-5
154 pages, illustrated, 6" x 6"
$23.50 Hardcover
This is the genuinely rough guide to Britain. It names and shames the 50 worst towns on the island, revealing them in all their disreputable glory. From inner-city poverty to self-satisfied middle England, from the dull and lifeless to the ugly and depressing, no concrete monstrosity or phony heritage center has been left untouched. This book will prove that Britain isn't just the place of warm beer, cozy bed and breakfasts and amiable old gits that some travel books would have us believe. With burnt out cars, shell suits, cheap shoe shops and housing estates patrolled by rabid dogs and feral kids, Britain can be every bit as challenging as the places gap year students and 'serious' travelers usually go for their poverty and misery kick. Ascot, St. Albans, Maghull, Mirfield, Morecambe, Newport, Basingstoke, Bridgewater, Barrow-in-Furness, Billingham, Bexhill-On-Sea, Widnes, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, London, Leiston, Hastings, Hinchley Wood, Huntingdon, Hayling Island, Hull, Hackney, Horsham, Hythe, St. Andrews, St. John's Wood, Oxford, Cumbernauld, Keighley, Dover, Didcot, Dagenham, Tintern, Brighton, Croydon, Crouch End, Alresford, Aldeburgh, Portsmouth, Peterborough, Peterhead, Islington, Ipswich, Yate, Reading, Slough, Skelmersdale, Stockport, South Woodham Ferrers… your time is up.
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