The forgotten UK 'seaside town' so cheap homes sell for £10k

The Workington coastline successful the erstwhile concern town. (Image: Getty)

One UK "seaside town" that boasts a formation that residents person ne'er adjacent considered visiting has properties astatine rock-bottom prices.

Workington successful the UK sits connected the Cumbrian coastline and is conscionable miles distant from 1 of the UK’s astir beauteous nationalist parks, the Lake District.

It has precocious besides grabbed the headlines arsenic it was named arsenic being 1 of the cheapest “seaside towns” to unrecorded successful the country. It has an mean spot terms of £143,410 compared to a existent UK mean of £289,000.

Currently, determination is simply a spot listed with an eye-popping usher terms of conscionable £10,000, a terraced location connected the town's Winifred Street. Another extremity terraced three-bedroom spot is listed for a usher terms of £30,000 connected Findlay Place.

Express.co.uk chatted to locals successful the town’s engaged buying country boasting precocious thoroughfare giants specified arsenic Marks and Spencer and Next.

Pictured section nonmigratory and stall proprietor Ian Cale, 63. (Image: Andy Commins)

Ian Cale, 63, has a marketplace stall selling shot badges and different paraphernalia.

He said: “It’s conscionable a spot of an ex-industrial municipality and it’s a spot rundown - it’s the aforesaid arsenic a batch of towns with bare shops. But it’s much of a larboard than a seaside town. [I’ve] not truly ever got down to the beach.”

Fellow marketplace stall holder Adrian McGreavy, 62, who runs a food stall, agrees and says the Workington needs a currency injection.

He said: “The spot is nice. Someone enactment connected TikTok and slagged everything off. The municipality is okay, everyone seems good and affable enough. But it’s not truly a seaside municipality - Workington is concern and conscionable needs a spot of investment.”

Graeme Cameron, 55, is simply a concern proprietor and runs a engaged store called Sole It Lock It successful the municipality centre.

He said: “We bash get plentifulness of tourists who travel to spot the country and a batch of them person got caravans - but a batch of that has to bash with the Lakes arsenic it’s cheaper to enactment conscionable extracurricular than successful the Lakes itself.”

Pictured section nonmigratory and stall proprietor Adrian McGreavy, 62. (Image: Andy Commins)

Pictured (R) section nonmigratory and store proprietor Alison Short, 54,with her mum. (Image: Andy Commins)

Pictured section residents Yvonne Reed, 64, and Lindsey Taylor, 44. (Image: Andy Commins)

Alison Short, 54, runs the neighbouring florists with the assistance of her mum Mary McCallister, 88 - and has ne'er visited the formation contempt surviving successful the municipality each of her life.

She said: “I wouldn’t people it arsenic a seaside municipality - it’s much of an concern town. I person lived present each my beingness and person ne'er been connected the beach! It decidedly isn’t a seaside municipality - I’m rather shocked [that it’s been called one].”

Her mum, however, says that a sojourn to the town’s shingle formation was thing she did regularly erstwhile she had a young family.

She said: “When I was young everyone would spell to the formation - everyone went determination for a time out.”

Yvonne Reed, 64, is simply a retired postwoman and is simply a regular visitant to Workington. She lives successful adjacent Aspatria.

The parent of 2 and grandma to 1 said: “I travel present to shop. It is simply a spot rundown and has a batch of bare shops."

Lindsey Taylor, 44, is simply a stallholder and is successful Workington doubly a week. She lives successful Allonby, which is simply a beauteous seaside village.

She said: “It’s rather a quiescent municipality and friendly."