Thirteen Rotherham barbers scored a perfect five in ratings

Rotherham folk have locks to be proud about as a survey says the town has the best haircuts in Yorkshire.

Researchers have combed stats to razor list of which areas are making the cut when it comes to haircare.

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Google reviews for every barber in the country were investigated by business UK Hair Transplants - and Rotherham topped the listings for Yorkshire and the Humber.

The company says it found that barbers in Rotherham average 4.79 stars out of five against a UK average of 4.75, which makes Rotherham the highest of the 15 council areas ranked in Yorkshire and the Humber.

UK Hair Transplants in its research assumed that barbers with the lowest ratings are the ones giving the worst haircuts, so if the barbers in an area are rated poorly then the people who live there are the ones walking around with the bad haircuts, and vice-versa for good ratings.

UK Hair Transplants checked the Google listing of every barber shop in the UK on November 1 and kept the 21,340 that were open and had at least 20 reviews, which between them have 2,519,465 reviews.

Rotherham has 71 barbers in the ranking with 4,921 reviews between them, and five of those barbers average under 4.5 stars, compared with 13.1 per cent of barbers across the UK.

Of all the reviews left for barbers, 3.8 per cent are one or two stars, compared with 4.1 per cent across the UK, and 13 Rotherham barbers have a perfect 5.00.

In October UK Hair Transplants analysed the most recent five-star reviews with a written comment for Rotherham's 18 highest-rated barbers, taking up to 15 for each barber and 266 reviews in all, to see what customers there praise most.

The haircut itself came first, with 146 of them - 55 per cent - praising the barber's skill, attention to detail or getting exactly the cut they asked for.

Friendly and welcoming staff came up in 118 of the reviews (44 per cent), being a regular who would not go anywhere else in 53 (20 per cent), being seen without a long wait in 28 (11 per cent) and the price in 24 (9 per cent), with many reviews praising more than one thing.

One customer wrote: “Top class barbers, been going for years and never had a bad haircut they are always very good.”

Another said: “Best barber ever, takes his time no rush he knows what he’s doing and very keen to details."

Elsewhere in Yorkshire and the Humber, Barnsley scores 4.75, Wakefield 4.75, Sheffield 4.76 and Doncaster 4.76, while Bradford is the region's lowest ranked on 4.72.

Across the UK, Newham in east London is bottom of the UK Hair Transplants ranking on 4.54 and Lincoln, the Vale of Glamorgan and Teignbridge share top spot on 4.85.

Dr Adam Ali, hair transplant surgeon at UK Hair Transplants, said: "People in Rotherham can be pleased with this one, because a good barber matters more than most people think.

“They see the back of your head every few weeks and you never do, so they’re often the first person to notice a crown getting thinner or a hairline creeping back.

“It’s clear from these scores that people in Rotherham trust the person cutting their hair. Someone who’s cut your hair for years knows what it used to look like, so they can tell you honestly when it’s changing."