Two parts of Kent have been named as some of the worst places to live in England.

Chatham and Canterbury were two of the 50 areas ranked in iLiveHere's survey this year.

The poll, which was taken by more than 100,000 people, saw Canterbury ranked 47th, beating Northampton, Ipswich and Hull.

iLiveHere's article didn't pull any punches regarding the Cathedral city's ranking.

"I’m sure there are some fuming middle class residents and estate agents in Canterbury, apoplectic that their bourgeois enclaves have still made it on to our worst list," it said.

"Anyhoo, we’re not laughing about that one little bit… honest!"

Some of the voters took to social media to express their reasoning for the area's vote.

One student wrote of the vandalised subways under the A2050 full of people who "congregate to hassle and taunt anyone unlucky enough to want to walk through. Believing themselves to be ‘well ‘ard’ in front of their ‘mates’ as they gesticulate wildly".

Chatham was labelled the 39th worst place to live, beating places like Manchester and Stevenage.

The article said even harsher things about the Medway Towns' position.

It read: "Some truly dreadful places are making a showing [on the lists].

"A lot of people in Northern England think the streets of the South East are paved with gold, we can assure you, in Luton Road, Chatham, it is more like dried blood and puke."

Some voters called Luton the "festering cesspit of Medway".

One said: "The place is filthy, dirty and has been run down for the last 100 years."

However it was Luton, a town on the River Lea about 30 miles north-north-west of London, that took the top spot, closely followed by Peterborough, Portsmouth, Slough and Aylesbury.