Didcot, oh Didcot, what can I say? Possibly the chavviest town in the UK (with the exception of Telford), the shopping “centre” is a row of about 100 shops, including such delights as 2 cheap hardware/plastic doll shops, a butcher selling bumper packs of anything and everything, a Peacocks (girl chav clothing), a Badgers (bloke chav clothing) and about 20 take out food places. The only 2 non-chav shops are Boots and Whsmith. Didcot has been described as the armpit of Oxfordshire, the people in it are even less attractive than the sweaty germs within that armpit. It’s compulsory to be, a) ugly b) obese and c) smoking with d) obligatory 6 kids (if over the age of 14) e) bling bling earrings and f) “leisure-wear” which sis usually fake, and badly fake at that. Didcot’s only (town centre) supermarket? Co-op. I rest my case.
You actually proved that not all the chavs live in Didcot if they were on the bus going back to Oxford…
Chavs are everywhere as are arseholes, murderers etc etc ..if you don’t like Didcot don’t come here…simple!!
I live in didcot and have been traveling aswell. I can tell you now that didcot is a good town. Yeah we have idiots and trouble makers but where doesn’t! Its come a long way in the last 10 years and is only getting better. The fact that even when new homes are built they don’t stay on the market very long speaks for itself! Maybe you can’t afford to live in didcot and are jealous your stuck in your little boring town where nothing is going on? Get your butler to take that silver spoon out of your mouth, get off your computer and take a look outside because the world isn’t perfect.
I go to Didcot a lot and actually find it refreshing to be among ordinary non-middle-England people. Chavs? This is word made up to redefine working class people as ignorant and law-breaking. In any populace or cross-section of people a tiny minority will perform criminal activities but don’t judge the 98% on the 2%. I find people around the shopping centre friendly and interesting to engage with. Mothers seem to love their children with the same fervour and passion of middle class people. These people, far from the demonized view of working people, are the salt of the earth, and the majority are hard-working and productive.
The women are no more obese than in anywhere in the UK in both rich and poor areas, and I find the wildness and lack of fals refinement in their ways are again refeshing
and natural.
Give me a Didcot woman any day over your Sloane ranger as I know she will bear children well and is not inbred. Some of the people slagging off Didcot should try living in the big world first, like London, Manchester, Liverpool etc., I’m sure they would then find Didvcot a lovely Haven and retreat from the urban violent fringes of these large cities.
And if we ever had to survive in a post-apocalytic world, people from Didcot would be the ones i would walk with as they would know how to survive in the absence of ‘nannies’ and without the burden of carrying Middle Englan people on their baxks because the latter wouldn’t know how to hang a picture, let alone fight for survival.
In fact, I think I will go to Didcot now and walk among my own working class kind a nd feel proud to be among them and know it were us keeping this country going throug two world wars and it was or kind which were in the mines and providing England with the industrial might fir over 200 years.
Some of you twats should get out of your dealer board seats, step out of your Porsches, and enjoy standing next to giants of humanity.
mol (Abingdon).
Didcot is indeed the armpit of the South East, it’s residents are vile, the lowest of the low and the housing and rec facilities are awful.
The whole town needs bulldozing, ESP Tavistock Avenue.
Lots of things have changed since this article was written, Didcot is a thriving town with a new shoping centre, cinema and arts theatre. Yes it still has its usual idiots but what twon in England doesn’t
Well I’ve lived in quite a lot of areas around the country with work, but I originate from Didcot and now living here for a while again! There are faults with it and some horrible people, but I also know some really nice people there too. I feel pretty safe here as well, as I’ve seen a lot worse in Bristol, Liverpool, London and other places. And maybe it’s all the negative people that are making Britain a bad place. Think of that!
Didccot as it worse there’s teenage pregnancy and lots take drugs and very few work
I hate didcot! I lived there for most of my life, the schools pretend to be great, but will never fix the social mistake of single sex schools, or the social division of chavs, emos, and chemos, ganging-up on the kids ‘in the middle’ and the people, although nerdy they may be, that just want to work hard so they can get a good job in future! The teachers seem to provide more opportunities to the idiots as well, they can’t see it, yet can’t be told as otherwise the chavs, emos, and chemos bully you even more! YES there are some nice people in didcot, but they are wasted in that Chav-infested giant council estate known as didcot! Even the ladygrove has turned chavvy, like my mate Steve, his mum’s tyres were slashed! That’s why I left, and now live happily in Wantage, attending King Alfreds!
Some of the comments made about Didcot are unfair, but unfortunately most are true. Didcot’s a complex little town. Where else can world class scientists (from the laboratories in Harwell) rub shoulders with some of the most inarticulate people ever to draw breath. There is a real culture of enforced ignorance in Didcot. Academic success within the working classes is often ridiculed and any child with an artistic temperament would most likely be persecuted.
There are some great people in Didcot, but they will always be overshadowed by the Chav stereotype that are so easy to find. You don’t even have to look for them!
Didcot is getting better, but it does need to address it’s obesity, drug and violence problems more seriously.
Didcot is a satellite town, the equivalent of space-junk. It has nothing which is not modest, unimaginative and deflating to behold, and it houses some of the country’s most violent criminal scum. One of the Didcot posse’s hospitalised a guy from a neighbouring town, while he was on crutches and unable to flee from the rival turf, by hammering him with baseball bats. These thugs will be out of prison soon, having served three years, which to judge by their girlfriends’ reactions on facebook was totally unjustified and vindictive. I would not live in Didcot, it looks like a s**t road from south London and the people are only interested in their cars.
i live in didcot, yes its is chavy but there are areas where it isn’t that chavy, its mostly down town, broad way and ladygrove, but some of the comments everyone is leaving make it sound chavy, and we have always had good old tesco!
and im 14, so it cant be that bad, and the schools are getting better 
I have to agree that Didcot does seem to attract the likes of the ‘chav’ type but its recent refubishment of the town centre and new ‘Orchard Centre’ looks very respectable and is a big benefit to the town. I also think Didcot homes two extremely capable schools, -St.Briunus and Didcot Girls- which I know to have become very succesful over the past years. The train station I find to be very reliable and have had no problems with.
I definatly think Didcot has progressed over the years and people should stop stereotyping it as another typical ‘chav paradise’.
well didcot…. having lived in oxford and abingdon….. originally i agreed it was s**t but its changeing yes there wasn’t much to do here but its getting better all the time.
its easy to get to places from here (central). m4, a34, train station, buses are ok could be better, reading,london,slough,oxford not far to drive or train to. the shopping centre ha smost of the stuff u need, there are a few too many takeaways, hairdressers and charity shops, could do with a hmv or electronics shop as well as mens clothing but hey its ok. abingdon on the other hand seems to have gone downhill since i left.. wasnt my fault.. more jobs here in didcot, another thing.
i quite like that its getting more multicultural as most of the people coming in are educated, working people, hey we have an arts centre and a cinema so theres more to do, we have a choice of a couple of supermarkets too, i heard we might get bowling so that will be great.
pubs wise we dont seem to have many decent boozers, a couple can be dodgy, i have seen a pimp like bloke with all gold bling and 2 bodyguards altho he was bigger than them and he was black which is wird as i havent seen many black men in didcot. so from oxford or berinsfield there to sell his drugs? who knows… didnt stay in broadways to find out i was outta there.
i have been to 5 pubs and in order of preference 1. ladygrove 2 prince 3 broadways 4 wheatsheaf 5 wally arms but not on certain nights and i have been to the applecart but thats more restaurant than pub otherwise that would be fourth knocking wally out into 6th. for a mostly trouble free drink sesh i go to oxford or reading…..
you can’t polish a turd!
But you can roll it in glitter
Don’t know who the ignorent pig was that wrote this account of Didcot but whoever it was writes a load of crap. He wants to update it and write how Didcot is today. Its not the best place by far, not when it has to compete with the likes of Henly on Thames and Wallingford, Didcot is last in the queue to get anything done,our roads are attrocious, humps and idiotic roundabouts,cameras in places where there has never been an accident. But for all its downbeats it has its upbeats too. A new shopping centre, multi-plex cinema, arts centre,Sainsbury & Tesco supermarkets, Indoor pool. three hours free parking. Come and re check and get your facts right. don’ be such an ingnoramus.
i live in didcot
and the BMF crew consist of people who hate the chavs in didcot
we want to get rid of them
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you
we are the Bad Mother f**kers
and won’t stand for chavvy bulls**t in our town
all born with silver spoons. Different breed that why the countrys the way it is
i am very upset about how people are slagging off didcot my home town! not all the people are ugly, obese, have lots of bling bling, wear leisure-wear and have 6 children! i am a pretty 18yr old who is a size 8! so stop stero-typin all the people who live here cos we r not all the same! and we also have a sainsburys not just a co-op! not all of us have the money to buy designer wear and we r happy to wear fake stuff! i like my jeans and loafers!
Not modest then
Townie scum,
Townie scum,
Townie scum!
Dededed
I have had the (mis)pleasure of spending some time in Didcot. For some reason all trains from London to Oxford terminate in Didcot on Saturday nights. I enjoyed watching some Chavs throw up their whitelightning outside the pub oposite the train station as I waited for the Chav infested bus to take me back to Oxford.
You waited for a bus in Didcot one night – aha! an expert on the subject.