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On School Lane, in Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester
What it's like at CB23 7BD: every home that has sold on School 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 School Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 164 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, School LaneDetached | Sept 2010 | £450,000 | 162 m² | £2,778/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, School LaneDetached | Jun 2021 | £730,000 | 150 m² | £4,867/m² | 2 |
| 4, School LaneDetached | Oct 2021 | £790,000 | 114 m² | £6,930/m² | 2 |
| 5, School LaneDetached | Sept 2024 | £650,000 | 199 m² | £3,266/m² | 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: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Cambridge South, a drive away (5.1 km).
The nearest bus stop is High Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (routes 18, 18A); 5 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Barton CofE VA Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 59% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Comberton Village College, 3.2 km away; Attainment 8: 55.7 · 26.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Parkside Community College (5.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 3.5 km away, with Conkers Barton Village Stores closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Comberton Surgery (2.8 km), with Jank Nk (Chemist) the closest pharmacy (3.8 km).
For a haircut, Dragonfly is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals, 8.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 54% 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 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
Conkers Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Hoops the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 121 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 41% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 650 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Trumpington Meadows Country Park, 3.1 km away; for exercise, The Cocks and Hens Cambridge Tennis (2.9 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 40 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 51% of adults have a degree.
18 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 Hoops Public House | II | 30 m |
| Church of St Peter | II* | 50 m |
| 18, High Street | II | 90 m |
| the Vatches | II | 120 m |
| Clare College Farmhouse | II | 140 m |
| Manor Farmhouse | II* | 160 m |
| Granary, at Manor Farmhouse | II | 170 m |
| Dales Barn | II | 180 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.
South Cambridgeshire constituency: Pippa Heylings MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 10,641 (19.4%), turnout 71%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 47%, Conservative 27%, Labour 11%, Reform UK 9%.
2 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 CB23 7BD →
The nearest university is University of Cambridge, 4.8 km away (TEF Gold).
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.
On this street: 1 of 129 homes with certificates have solar panels, 6 a heat pump, and 48 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.0% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.7% | 4.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 73.1% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 10.8% | 14.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.4% | 0.8% | 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 51 min
Nearest: Nene Valley Railway · about 35 min
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 164 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.