Life in the UK's cheapest 'seaside town' where homes on market for £10k

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It has a beach and is just a few miles from one of the UK's most beautiful national parks. But Workington in Cumbria is also one of the UK's cheapest seaside towns.

It has an average property price of £143,410 compared to a current UK average of £289,000, the Express reports. Currently, there is a property listed with an eye-popping guide price of just £10,000, a terraced home on the town's Winifred Street.

Another end terraced three-bedroom property is listed for a guide price of £30,000 on Findlay Place. READ MORE: Huge queues at Manchester Arndale as new pop-up store opens for one weekend only Ian Cale, 63, has a market stall selling football badges and other paraphernalia in in the town's busy shopping area boasting high street giants such as Marks and Spencer and Next.

He said: "It's just a bit of an ex-industrial town and it's a bit rundown - it's the same as a lot of towns with empty shops.