Rhondda Cynon Taff is a mining area that succumbed to the decline, but has recently started to rebuild itself, through the construction of local film studios. Sadly, years of heavy industry and chemicals dumping polluted the local waterways, killing most of the life in them. They are still not fully recovered, though efforts to clean the waterways are ongoing and much progress has been made. Estate agents have struggled to sell properties in Rhondda Cynon Taff because there was only one man who ever knew how to pronounce the county’s name, but he died in 1952. Average home price: £72,085.Google Street View
Rhondda Cynon Taff is a mining area that succumbed to the decline, but has recently started to rebuild itself, through the construction of local film studios. Sadly, years of heavy industry and chemicals dumping polluted the local waterways, killing most of the life in them. They are still not fully recovered, though efforts to clean the waterways are ongoing and much progress has been made. Estate agents have struggled to sell properties in Rhondda Cynon Taff because there was only one man who ever knew how to pronounce the county’s name, but he died in 1952. Average home price: £72,085.Google Street ViewRobbie Williams is from Stoke-on-Trent and occasionally returns, which might explain the area’s very low house prices. The average is just £69,904. As well as Williams, the tattooed yell-factory, other 'celebrities' spawned in Stoke area include Anthea Turner and Nick Hancock- so we are talking about the crème de la crème. And they make really nice pots, so… you’ll never be short of decent pots. What more can you ask for?Google Street ViewIf the local accent doesn’t immediately rule out moving to Kingston-upon-Hull, then it’ll only cost you an average of £69,317 to buy a home here. Close to the rolling hills of Yorkshire’s countryside, escape from the area is easy.Google Street ViewRemember all those great things about Middlesbrough? Neither can I. Decent bridge there, though. If haunting metal mega-structures that hover over rivers are your thing, then get yourself to Middlesbrough – average home price £69,049.Google Street ViewOnce a grinding cog when Britain was an industrial powerhouse, the decline of production in the latter half of the 20th Century dragged Merthyr Tydfil down from prosperity into despair. Nowadays soot-faced miners have been replaced by the long-term unemployed, after the incumbent industry, particularly coal mining and ironworks, abandoned the Welsh town. The area is plagued by high youth crime and unemployment rates. Amid government cutbacks, Merthyr Tydfil’s outlook is grim. If the town’s sad decay isn’t enough to put you off, then you can pick up a steal with the average property price at £66,511 – the cheapest around – and enjoy the awe-inspiring Welsh countryside that engulfs it.Google Street View
Middlesbrough suffered the sharpest monthly decline in its average house price out of all the areas of England and Wales, falling by 16.5% across the year.
