Newton Aycliffe is pretty much unknown nationally, but within the North East of England, it is known as a land of milk & honey for Chav folk. Walk through the historically important town centre designed & constructed using s**te building materials in the 1960′s & twinned with Beruit, Soweto & Hell, chavs immediatley feel at home.
A lovely array of different shops & services inc. Greggs the bakers to quickly feed a chav brood (family unit.) Also a large range of furniture & large telly’s & washing machines at Brighthouse with no scary credit checks very popular with chavs in Aycliffe. Very amusing when you see a Keith Miller lookalike arguing with staff because he’s about to have his sofa or tv repossesed. However very useful for furnishing a proud chav’s council house. Also Argos is an important landmark for the chav community as they supply very imortant jewellery.
Thames shopping centre (good name as we are only 300 miles from the River Thames) is a good place to go if you’ve got f**k all to do, & if you like the smell of bad breath, sweaty arses & old ladies.
If you’re in need of refreshment then call into Blakes public house – during the afternoon full of OAP & middle-aged chavs standing outside smoking their rollies. On a weekend the spectrum of customers expands to incude fat arsed young lasses (who also like to frequent Betty’s fish shop.) Also pimple faced young men who then think that they are Rocky Balboa after a few pints. Also watch as fat arsed chavette girls fall out of Blakes, flashing their floppy breasts & falling into the kebab shop or takeaway.
We also have a large selection of charity shops to suit the more financially challenged chav folk.
Be amazed at the sight of inbred young men in s**tty Vauxhall corsa’s & clapped out Astra’s with cooling tower sized exhausts fitted & go faster stripes & spoilers. Feel the power as these chav drivers rev their engines to the limit & their dickhead mates on offroad motorbikes & mini motos attempt to be glorious chav stuntmen pulling wheelies & doing s**te burnouts. Watch them crash & burn as the coppers seize their crappy bikes, the look of total anguish on their faces as their prized bikes are taken away.
The same people will strut their stuff in Aycliffe town centre if it’s warm & sunny (not very often) & the shirts come off revealing Beckham style tattoos, muscle beach in California wouldn’t get a look in. Be overwhelmed by scruffy,multi fathered little child urchins who Fagan would be proud of.
Aycliffe is full of atmosphere especially when the local sewage works f**ks up & you can smell s**te everywhere coupled with the smell of piss from old chavs on invaild scooters it’s a real heady mix.
If you are a chav, then Newton Aycliffe is a town of opportunities where the sky is the lmit.
Newton Aycliffe does have it problems, as you would expect in an area which such high unemployment. However I have also lived in nearby Darlington and the area of Darlington where I lived was far rougher than Aycliffe. Although Darlington is more affluent than Aycliffe, it has some awful ghettos!
Aycliffe is a place people either love or hate. You do need a car to live there. Access to public amenities is poor, and it has a somewhat ghost town film, but Aycliffe has an abudance of trees, parks, walks and green spaces and a somewhat slow pace of life.
The types of people you often find in Aycliffe are young families who rent council houses and commuters who buy a cheaper house in Aycliffe and work elsewhere. There are also a small number of well to do areas. Parts of Aycliffe feel more like a collection of housing estates than a town.
I really want to punch all these people saying “ooh woodham’s nice” etc. These are the same people who claim to be from the “posh estate” – WTF! Posh estate? How is that even possible?
People who say aycliffe is nice don’t know what nice is.
I personally have lived in Woodham for 18 years and yes, Woodham is a well affiliated area (in specific parts). I do not care what you say, you may have perused the outskirts and eyed up the yellow and black estate which are on the outskirts, but the houses which back the golf course and culdesacs nearby, are in your words “posh”. And no one says they are from the ‘posh estate’ those words don’t even gel together they are total opposites. The only estates in Aycliffe are the grey, black, red and yellow. If you’ve ever walked into streets such as Heatherburn Court or Stag Lane, some houses there are actually rented as holiday homes. Basically, yes Aycliffe is a dump but don’t tar every household with the same brush.
I’m not from Aycliffe myself, but a few miles away.
I agree with Martin’s comments alot and from my general observations, the young people are better behaved than from where I’m from. However, even as an adult I’ve experienced threatening and intimidating language from total strangers on at least two occasions in Aycliffe during broad daylight. Having said that, I did have to defend myself in my own village against a drink and drug addled chav one night – again, a total stranger.
To summarise then, whilst Aycliffe is generally much better than a lot of surrounding villages, I still can’t see me moving there. Instead, I may move to another county and yes, that’s to escape the charvery which is totally infecting society to alarming levels.
I agree totally but i do think you have gone a little over aboard with things like the Blue Bridge, Caygills and Nevills Parade they are not exactly the nicest of places in Aycliffe.
You have also misted out the Greenfeild Estate witch joins onto the Byerley park estate and you also missed out the Cobblers hall estate, both of which are really lovely estates.
I also agree with what you say about it taking time to refurbish the town but they started to refurbish it before i made my first post on here in 2010, and they are still no where near and with the state of the economy at the minute it will not be done for a long time yet.
Right firstly i see you never mentioned Shafto Way in your nice little article there nor did you ever mention Woodham or Byerley Park. These are the nicest places in Newton Aycliffe to begin with. Please allow me to go into detail and debunk your entire argument here.
Shafto Way
This part of Aycliffe generates the most revenue it has Neville Parade which has many shops and the Town Centre which also is generating a lot of revenue. Yes i will grant you the town centre is a bit untidy however you failed to mention that is undergoing extensive work to bring it up to scratch. That takes a long time to do sir. You also fail to mention that people living in Shafto Way are often brought up from working family’s with decent incomes. The people in that part of Aycliffe are very understanding and friendly and actually are pleasant to deal with. How do i know all of this because i used to live at that part of the town in Priest man Road 1988-1996 before i moved. One of the most decent areas in Aycliffe. Adding to this i also have a history of having to go to that part of the town time and time again in my life. Also it has a lot of schools near by not to mention the Blue Bridge which is awesome to visit. Its only up the road from Simpasture gate offering even more shops. It has a bigger retail network than any other place in Aycliffe.
Next we have Byerley Park which offers not only The premier store formerly Caygills which i recommend everyone goes to visit at the odd time they have some good deals going, but this part of Aycliffe has some posh looking houses but also has familys with respectable incomes and does have some nice people there. It also has a collection of stores near it only just up the road and also a garage. Again if you look at this part of Aycliffe you can see it is decent.
Next Up woodham
This shows you even posher houses and a nicer area which proves Aycliffe is far from a dump. Not to mention the decent incomes people are on in Woodham well a lot of them anyway and the better lifestyles they all have compared to other parts of the UK
Yes there are estates that do let Aycliffe down which i wont name and even then its a small majority of people in those neglected estates that let the town its self down,The Labour Government failed to bring these estates up to scratch whenever the coalition will is a different matter.
Go and look at Woodham,Byerley Park or Shafto Way and youll see how nice Aycliffe is. I think you have judged the town on seeing some bad estates or a small group of chavs acting like idiots. Thats my opinion you don’t have to agree with it or like it Sir.
LMAO! I’ve been in Aycliffe for around 6 months now and thats Aycliffe to a T, but I do agree with Martin pretty much everywhere is the same now, think chav nation is taking over (younger generation) surprised with the riots happening they havnt tried it here actually.
This is bullshi#e coz i have lived in Aycliffe for 10 years and nothing has happened that is that bad. People are always saying how bad aycliffe is but have these people ever really been here. Yes ill admit there are some bad places here but there are more nice places. people only see the town center or one or two of the estates around there and they judge the whole town by that. None of these people can say anything, as most of them come form places like Darlo, ferryhill or Bishop, all of witch are a million times worse that Aycliffe.
My estate for example is lovely, really nice houses really nice people and not a single chav to be seen anywhere. There are also some of the nicest houses you’ll see in the Northeast here, but because they are out of the way and on the outskirts of aycliffe people never see them and most people don’t even know that they are there. if people just took the time to wander around the whole of aycliffe then they would see that it isn’t that bad.
I always feel safe to walk around at any time of the day by myself because there is nothing to be afraid of here were as i would not dare walk around some places in darlo and most places of Bishop or ferry hill withor without someone.
you joking?
Im 18, ive lived here my whole entire life.
The sooner i leave the better.
horrible horrible place haha
theres absolutely nothing