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On Folly Farm Lane, in St Leonards
What it's like at BH24 2NN: every home that has sold on Folly Farm Lane since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Folly Farm Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 3 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Badgers Cottage, Folly Farm LaneOther | Sept 2017 | £630,560 | 135 m² | £4,671/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barakat, Folly Farm LaneDetached | Jan 2014 | £580,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Thatch Cottage, Folly Farm LaneDetached | Sept 2008 | £190,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Christchurch, a drive away (12 km), with 484k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Ashley Heath Roundabout, 250 m away, with a bus about every 27 minutes on weekdays (routes X3, X6); 6 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (17 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Ives Primary & Nursery School, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 90% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Ringwood School Academy, 2.0 km away; Attainment 8: 56.2 · 18.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School for Girls (9.1 km) and Bournemouth School (9.4 km).
Few families with young children: only 11% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 1.3 km away, with Rontec Ringwood closer still (850 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Foot Shop (1.3 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, The Work Shop is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 9.4 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 65% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Cena Italian Ringwood is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and Fish Inn the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 81% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
Bungalow country: 52% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Jubilee Gardens, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Elements Health & Wellness Hub (1.5 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Bournemouth Manor Steps, 12 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
2 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Christchurch constituency: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 7,455 (15.7%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Liberal Democrat 20%, Reform UK 19%, Labour 16%.
10 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BH24 2NN →
For holidays, Bournemouth is 5.8 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 87 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 61% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 39% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.8% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 93.5% | 77.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.1% | 9.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.6% | 10.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.8% | 0.6% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 3 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.