CORBY: Worst English Towns 2022 

I'm 67 and have lived in Corby since I was 6 years old. I quite agree that our town centre leaves a lot to be desired. You can walk round it in 10 minutes and nothing ever changes apart from Eastern European shops opening all over the town. We do have stunning countryside that surrounds us though, and many historical houses and sites to visit in the area. The thing that makes Corby is the people. They will rally round when there is a crisis and help anyone that needs help. We have a great charitable attitude here. We look after our own.

Corby is full of very nice people but it's better on the inside than it is on the outside :)

For some reason, they advertised Corby homes in the London Underground when the Corby train station opened. Lots of Londoners sold their homes and moved to Corby, causing Corby house prices to increase. Houses in Corby use to be a lot cheaper.

Hi guy, thank for visiting our home town, I’m glad you liked it, you missed so much just across the street, Olympic 50 meter swimming pool with high diving boards, theatre that has great shows, a cinema with 6 screens.

Thank you for the tour of Corby I enjoyed looking at the shops, all us ladies do 😆😆 I loved your cooking again Mazzy, even if it was just bangers and mash.. Can’t wait for the next one.. Much love 💖💖💖

Hi Dan and Mazzy your meals looked Really nice , And Corby looked quite a nice place to shop , take care both.

Have just seen this. My family have lived there for ten years. I visit my family regularly there. We stayed at the Saxon Crown last year. It was lovely. Though I wouldn't have gone out around there, on my own at night. But I live in Norfolk, so it's different. The houses might have seemed expensive. As they have built six very posh housing estates in Corby, over the last 10 years. Just outside Corby. On the way to Kettering is a lovely farm campsite, with a cafe and farm shop on site. We stayed in our caravan there 3 years ago. Fantastic place to see Red kites. And the most amazing showers yet. I used to live near Stamford 26 years ago. At RAF Cottesmore. And regularly went to the Morrisons. It's near Burghley House. Stamford market on a Friday was amazing. Thanks for giving me some good memories. Take care of yourselves x

I’m pretty sure it is a sin to cut a pork pie in half and then bake all the moisture out or it!

Great video as always 👌Btw Stamford does have a McDonalds it's located behind Morrisons 😊

Poor old Corby! I guess having the guts ripped out of the local economy with the closure of the steel works hasn’t help it. Just a shopping centre and nothing much else. Still hopefully the registration will help bring more employment. Thanks for the mention by the way!

Corby has a great cinema with very comfy seats...👍🏻 just next to the leisure centre. Which has excellent swimming facilities and cheap to use. 😁

You have been very kind, but you only really visited the shopping centre area. You could've gone up a little further you could've seen the new pool, library, and cinema complex. You could've also seen the surrounding living area, and the old town which is beautiful. It's also surrounded by the amazing countryside. And at the end of the day. You could have gone somewhere worse. You could have visited Kettering.

Lived there back in the late 80s early 90s it was a busy town back then just outside the town centre is lovely countryside I lived on a road called Beanfield Ave thanks for the tour

Great vlog 👍

"Hardly any pubs here" - whilst stood outside Paletto Lounge Shame you didn't go inside the Wetherspoons, it's not nearly as old-man'ish as many others Having been to Keighley I can see the similarities with the centres.

Hi , the steel works closing had a bad effect on the area . There is an oval race track you can take your van on lol.😎

Hi Dan and mazzy I’m just having another binge of your videos today I watched mazzy x the morning now onto you’re worst towns videos mazzy seams a really happy lady always smiling just love the both of you really nice people.love Bobby d from scotland 😊😊😊❤

Missed going into the old town which is a 10 minute walk away and the Olympic pool, and Rockingham a speedway aswell as the adrenaline alley which is aiming to become an Olympic training centre

Great review on our wee town . Thank god yous never went round the estates lol

Looks functional though x I would go shopping there on a shopping 🛍 day

Yes Dan, you are right. It's very much like Keighley around the bus station area near the Airedale Centre. Grey buildings with little colour.

That looks like the rough side of Harlow. Market Square end. If you go to the water Gardens it nicer. But that looks like the same planners we're used.

corbys amazing ive lived here my whole life its no where near the worst.

You can use aquafaba, the liquid from tinned chickpeas, to replace eggs if you are making an egg free cake

That meal looked delicious Mazzy . I’ve never had hot pork pie x

good vid mazzy and dan

You missed Corby Village and you really should look at the history of Corby it's very interesting.

You missed a lot of things like the skatepark which is famous around the world and a few Olympic medal winners trained there. Lots of pubs in Corby and not too far away from the centre. You missed out the swimming pool, cinema and the cube. If you decide to come to corby, let me know and I’ll show you around

This reminds me of Woodley near Reading. Not pretty but very functional. Thanks for sharing.

Best thing about Corby is the people, I worked there for many years and to be honest it’s really nice 👍… hot pork pie and mushy peas definitely a northern treat .. Yummy.

I was there 1987-88. There were more pubs. A club called Martines was a nice spot. The Frying Scottsman Fish & Chips was nice.

Corby looks ok nice and tidy great video : )

13:19 " no pubs" you are standing outside the palleto lounge when you said that😂

Hi Dan and mazzy corby wasn't that bad the sausage and mash looked great 😋 and onion gravy storms on their way storm eunice esp on Friday take care 👍

Hi just a Fort you can't put a rating on corby till you actually do all off corby there is a high street called the old village shops there and also shops at Rockingham Road the peel Centre tesco Morrison services stations 2 aldis shops at bean field willlow brook Road studfall shops swimming pool the largest in corby therter cinema not just everything in one place you know so how can yous put a rating on when you havevt done a full tour.

The most common crimes in Corby are violence and sexual offences, with 2,884 offences during 2023, giving a crime rate of 55. This is 2.8% lower than 2022's figure of 2,967 offences and a difference of 1.59 from 2022's crime rate of 57.

Smokers Corner, AKA Stoke Dry Car Park. Loads of dog walkers and birdwatchers use it. Did you see the Ring-necked Duck and the Smew(s) whilst you were there?

There is a Maccy D's in Stamford, it was round the back of Morrisons. you wouldn't have seen it unless you came down Ryhall Road.

It's sad the way our towns are becoming now. Betting shops, phone shops, charity shops. Every town seems to be the same. Great sausage and mash I could eat that every day. 😀😀

The meal looked good Mazzy I love onion gravy on mash. Corby didn't look that bad like you said it's not an old historical town so nothing for tourists to look at.

Say would your view of this town been different if it was hot & sunny clear blue skys??? Just wondering if your review been different??? :-)

Oh,I thought looked nice little town.good video 😍

Wondered if you could set Coby as a benchmark. And then each subsequent town is rated either higher or lower then you will get your very own top 25 list fairly.

Brilliant 👍

Didn't look too bad for the country's worst places. That woman in the gift shop at about 21 mins glaring at you through the window was scary though, hardly inviting to head in and there was some weirdo stood outside too with the too big black coat. That meal looked great, except the pork pie because of the horrible jelly stuff they put in them.

When I was pregnant with my daughter my craving was a hot pork pie. Never had it before and haven’t had it since, lol.

Great place in the fifties and sixties , downhill after that ,family worked in stewart and lloyds

That weatherspoons is actually quite nice 👍

Cant help but see funny things in the background in your vids. This time a woman standing outside a store wearing a mask looking at you.🤣

Looked alright Corby...And did you demolish the rest of that porky pie Dan lol...as you said not many pubs in the town centre, but as you know guys plenty of pubs in my home town lol

My birding place, the Eyebrook Res.

Nothing wrong with Corby atall I’m proud to born and raised in Corby with excellent Scottish roots!

You need to be here during the Highland Gathering. A lovely weekend.

Your still in Scotland, Corby was known as Little Scotland due to the number of ex pat Scots who lived there and worked in pits and steel.

🌹🌹💖💚OMG a ghost 👻 town or what spooky, Dan not like Gravesend, KENT. YES Mazzy hot pork pie 🥧 😋 like Sunday lunch you have Yorkshire put with gravy,before main meal??(I know why) 😀 good 👍 vlog ❤

Would i feel safe living in corby considering I'm british Caribbean? Born in north London, cockney accent.

I love Corby, the town centre is run down but my street is really well kept, the states like exeter, Kingswood and danesholme are not the best places but it’s not all bad

Being of Caribbean origin, I love bangers and mash and pork pie, yummy

yess the pole fair was amazing,every 20 years, also it was because queen elizabeth the 1st was stuck in corby (because she was stuck in mud) and we (corby people) helped her, so she made there be a fair every 20 years, right next to asda

Just had to check home town wasn't on the list lol 😆

I was born & bread in Corby , glad I got out , still a shit hole!

Looks like you walked back in time to 1980

490 crimes were reported here in April 2024 Crime type Instances Violence and sexual offences 198 Anti-social behaviour 109 Criminal damage and arson 37

Well, pretty much a review of Corby Town Centre. Not Corby...

I live in corby and it's really nice🥰🥰

Nice video 👍

Two pubs in the TC, The Candle and The Corinthian, not counting The Saxon King.

Great to see a cooking segment again mazzy haha 😆

Nice town. And your dinner looked very good. Hope you both are doing well. ❤️

you should do Harlow,Essex....place is a hole lol

Corby Is the best if you know where to find the lifestyle

The steel works still there but it’s closed down

I am with you there dan primark is one shop I will not go in

Wait it was u I walked past u guys omg I was wearing full black on the phone

I live in corby it's great but we're there's fights drunk people roaming around and many places smells of drugs

Great video, Mazzy the food looked amazing 🤩

Corby is run down but has the nicest people at heart but deffo very violent side

Corby has history it was a small tower the the steel work was opened and the Scot’s imgretet to Corby

Never been here before, looks ok

Corby never had anything to do but lovely people, now North Londonshire moved in, all we have is bad manners and range rovers :) Hence why i went back to Big Scotland. RIP Corby :)

Is Croydon on the list at all? A Saturday night out in Croydon? 😳

Steelworks tube works blast furnace

Your hair and cap look great Mazzy 😊

Keithley has some beautiful architecture,eg the library.I don't live in this place but I pass through some time . I visited Cliff castle when my children were young and my knee gave way on me ,before soft play areas were thought off. A man appeared from nowhere and offered to take me to the local hospital ,as we didn't have our own transport.but I didn't take him up on his kind offer as we didn't know where the hospital was.but that was the start of my knee problem.

I spent my childhood I that town

I've seen a lot worse places.

Second

Stamford has a McDonald's guys

I've lived here just over year in that time there have been 6 stabbings which mostly happen in the town and the hmo in this town is ridiculous 320 of them and more on there way we live next to one we have had nothing but trouble from them the only good thing I can say it that most of the people are so so nice very easy to talk to, I can't wait to move from here it cant come soon enough!!!

it was a rural village until the scottish turned up to work in the steel works and made it in to a town

We bought our semi detached house in Dublin almost 50 years ago for €7,850 and they are selling now for €700,000 plus 😊

I think corby is like most towns in the uk every single shop either useless or not used

Tha dinner looks good.

No history because it's a ' New Town'

Corby, only fifth worst? Must have improved since l was there last.

Corby is the home of the famous Corby Trouser Press as used to be found in all hotels when travelling salesman used different hotels every night

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Hot pork pie Dan? That's just not right. ;¬)

I remember somone scrawled over a sign saying wat yeu loookin at!! No attractions. The best thing about Corby is the exit roads. The surrounding country side is really lovley and this is just a blight on the landscape. I know as I spent 33 miserable years there. When the steelworks closed they had to build a huge tempoary labor exchange to deal with the signees. Majority of the people were unemployed. The gov were terrified that the population would disperse and gave Micheal Hessltine the job of finding a solution in which he made it a "National Enterprise zone" with next to zero buisness rates and other incentives to attract buisnesses. It did stop the exodus of people degentrifying other ascending communities which was it's purpose. A bit like containing a social "Chernobyl". It worked, but you wouldn't want to visit.

I live in Corby