Are you living UK’s Grinch capital? Map reveals STINGIEST councils at Christmas with least amount spent on festive cheer

A MAP has revealed the UK's Grinch superior wherever the stingiest councils walk the slightest connected Christmas cheer.

As the festive season gets into afloat swing, communities crossed the federation volition look guardant to airy displays and different jolly celebrations successful their cities.

But the grade of merriment whitethorn alteration depending connected wherever you live, arsenic figures from Gardening Express revealed the lowest UK assembly budgets.

The information has been compiled into spending per 1,000 people, based connected their wide outgo and population.

Ranking tenth successful the tightest spenders was Sheffield, who are lone forking retired £173 per 1,000 residents connected Christmas festivities this year.

A adjacent ninth spot was snapped up by Stoke-on-Trent wherever the assembly are lone contributing £170.

Plymouth, Winchester and Doncaster are acceptable to determination successful conscionable £141, £146, and £158 respectively.

Elsewhere, Salford council successful Manchester is choosing to ammunition retired £96, which is intimately followed by Nottingham - wherever the fund is £94.

However, the apical 3 lowest spenders don't adjacent scope £90.

Barnsley, successful South Yorkshire, came successful astatine 3rd place, with a full of £89, portion Lincoln, Lincolnshire, has acceptable speech £86.

But, the assembly spending the slightest connected their Christmas joyousness is St Albans City successful Hertforshire, with conscionable £78.

On the different extremity of the spectrum, Glasgow was named arsenic the biggest festive spender.

The mean walk per 1,000 radical is expected to full a whopping £461.25 successful comparison.

St Albans City and District assembly was contacted for comment.

This comes arsenic the 10 astir magical Christmas airy shows this twelvemonth person been revealed.

There are galore stunning airy shows crossed England from Kew Gardens in London to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.

When Christmas arrives, Kew Gardens is lit up with much than a cardinal bulbs.

It’s an wholly caller mode to spot the 320 acre attraction which is location to implicit 16,000 taxon of plants. 

Visiting Christmas astatine Kew doesn’t person to interruption the slope either, arsenic summons prices scope from £21.50 for members astatine off-peak times to £26 astatine highest times. 

For non-members, it is simply a small spot much costly with off-peak tickets costing £25.50 and highest tickets costing £32. 

The grounds at Blenheim Palace are besides truthful beauteous that they person been utilized in Harry Potter, James Bond, and Indiana Jones — but Christmas is truly thing special.

Kids volition emotion the Neverland successful the palace experience, which gives them the accidental to research the sparkling authorities rooms, implicit with a exemplary London skyline

Also, £1 volition beryllium added astatine handbasket signifier for each Neverland successful the Palace summons to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

Meanwhile, Bedgebury is location to a one-mile magical wintertime way which has fields of airy and giant, luminous effect pods.

You'll get the accidental to locomotion done sparkling tunnels of airy and the wood is drenched successful each of the colours of the rainbow.

It's cleanable for a little Christmas warmth on a acold December day.

Christmas astatine Bedgebury runs from November 14 to December 31, 2024.

Tickets for the Bedgebury way commencement astatine £17 for adults.

Elsewhere, Leeds Castle successful Broomfield, Kent, and volition big a glimmering Christmas acquisition from November 22 until January 1, 2025.

Giant colour-changing lilies volition interval retired onto the water and the past trees connected the castle grounds volition beryllium veiled successful shimmering fairy lights.

Tickets outgo conscionable £18 for adults and £13 for children.