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On Hightown Gardens, in Ringwood South
What it's like at BH24 3EG: every home that has sold on Hightown Gardens 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hightown Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 93 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Hightown GardensTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2016 | £222,500 | 47 m² | £4,734/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Hightown GardensFlat | Mar 2013 | £165,000 | 46 m² | £3,587/m² | 4 |
| 7, Hightown GardensTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2025 | £290,000 | 47 m² | £6,170/m² | 1 |
| 13, Hightown GardensTerraced | Aug 2015 | £230,000 | 73 m² | £3,151/m² | 1 |
| 15, Hightown GardensTerraced | Nov 2015 | £285,000 | 117 m² | £2,436/m² | 2 |
| 17, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2020 | £220,000 | 49 m² | £4,490/m² | 3 |
| 19, Hightown GardensTerraced | Dec 2006 | £184,000 | 50 m² | £3,680/m² | 2 |
| 21, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Mar 2000 | £84,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 23, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Mar 2006 | £192,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Hightown GardensTerraced | Nov 2024 | £370,000 | 95 m² | £3,895/m² | 3 |
| 27, Hightown GardensTerraced | Apr 1999 | £68,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 29, Hightown GardensTerraced | Nov 2014 | £209,000 | 98 m² | £2,133/m² | 1 |
| 33, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2012 | £218,000 | 48 m² | £4,542/m² | 2 |
| 35, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £305,000 | 71 m² | £4,296/m² | 3 |
| 37, Hightown GardensTerraced | May 1997 | £59,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 39, Hightown GardensTerraced | Dec 2011 | £175,000 | 56 m² | £3,125/m² | 4 |
| 41, Hightown GardensTerraced | Oct 2015 | £225,000 | 58 m² | £3,879/m² | 1 |
| 43, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £160,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 49, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | May 2013 | £242,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 51, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | May 2013 | £230,000 | 95 m² | £2,421/m² | 5 |
| 53, Hightown GardensSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £196,500 | 47 m² | £4,181/m² | 1 |
| 55, Hightown GardensDetached | Apr 2022 | £290,000 | 55 m² | £5,273/m² | 3 |
| 57, Hightown GardensTerraced | Mar 2000 | £79,050 | – | – | 2 |
| 59, Hightown GardensTerraced | Aug 2020 | £235,000 | 53 m² | £4,434/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Hinton Admiral, a drive away (11 km), with 134k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Brockenhurst.
The nearest bus stop is Hightown Gardens, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route C18); 3 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (20 by car).
The nearest primary school is Ringwood Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 62% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ringwood School Academy, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 56.2 · 18.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School for Girls (11.4 km) and Bournemouth School (11.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 850 m away, with Bakehouse24 closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cornerways Medical Centre (1.3 km), with Automeds Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Tiger Hair and Beauty is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 11 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 36 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Bluefins is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Elm Tree the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 98 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 31% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Ringwood).
There are 97 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 26% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is War Memorial Gardens, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Bluefins - Pool (600 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Christchurch Highcliffe Castle, 13 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 8.2 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 89 km.
8 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| the Elm Tree Inn | II | 130 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
New Forest West constituency: Sir Desmond Swayne MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,600 (12.1%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Conservative 35%, Labour 23%, Liberal Democrat 18%, Reform UK 16%.
14 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 3EG →
Most households own their home, 21% rent privately.
It's an older community: 25% 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in New Forest since 2011.
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 93 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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On this street: 4 of 68 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 79.5% | 86.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.9% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 17.3% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.1% | 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.