The least deprived area of England is a neighbourhood nestled in the Chiltern Hills near Amersham, a new government report has found.

The report, which measures deprivation in 32,844 small areas and neighbourhoods across the country, has ranked the Amersham neighbourhood as the least deprived across the whole country.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government indices are based on the most up-to-date information available from seven specific areas.

Data from income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and living environment are all used to measure levels of deprivation.

The most deprived area in the country is the Essex town of Jaywick.

The Essex town, near Clacton-on-Sea, received international coverage last year after it was used in a US election campaign advert.

Some eight neighbourhoods across the seaside resort of Blackpool account for the rest of the top 10 most deprived nationally, alongside an area of the Anfield district of Liverpool.

All of the local authorities with the highest proportion of deprived neighbourhoods are in the north - Middlesbrough, Knowsley, Hull, Liverpool and Manchester - and remain unchanged from 2015.

A bleak picture of the area, showing unpaved roads and dilapidated homes, was used by US politician to warn voters about the consequences of not voting for Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections in America.

A Government spokesman said: "The Government is committed to levelling across the country and with unemployment levels continuing to fall and wages rising at their fastest in over a decade, we're committed to supporting families with their cost of living."