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On High Street, in Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester
What it's like at CB23 8BS: every home that has sold on High Street 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.
7 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on High Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 404 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, High StreetDetached | Mar 1999 | £155,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, High StreetDetached | Nov 2018 | £467,500 | 157 m² | £2,978/m² | 1 |
| 4, High StreetDetached | May 2005 | £295,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 6, High StreetDetached | Aug 1999 | £168,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, High StreetDetached | Oct 2020 | £430,000 | 69 m² | £6,232/m² | 1 |
| 11, High StreetDetached | Aug 2003 | £248,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, High StreetDetached | Sept 2005 | £246,000 | 107 m² | £2,299/m² | 2 |
| 17, High StreetDetached | Mar 2015 | £525,000 | 248 m² | £2,117/m² | 1 |
| 19, High StreetDetached | May 2007 | £347,000 | 189 m² | £1,836/m² | 1 |
| 27, High StreetDetached | Oct 2019 | £595,000 | 164 m² | £3,628/m² | 2 |
| 28, High StreetSemi-detached | Jun 1998 | £110,000 | 76 m² | £1,447/m² | 1 |
| 30, High StreetDetached | Nov 2019 | £530,000 | 180 m² | £2,944/m² | 3 |
| 32, High StreetDetached | Mar 2010 | £335,000 | 108 m² | £3,102/m² | 3 |
| 34, High StreetDetached | Apr 2022 | £600,000 | 142 m² | £4,225/m² | 1 |
| 41, High StreetDetached | Nov 2021 | £525,000 | 134 m² | £3,918/m² | 1 |
| 45, High StreetSemi-detached | Sept 2009 | £237,000 | 118 m² | £2,008/m² | 1 |
| 46, High StreetDetached | Aug 2000 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, High StreetDetached | Jan 2026 | £680,000 | 133 m² | £5,113/m² | 4 |
| 50, High StreetSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £380,000 | 124 m² | £3,065/m² | 4 |
| 51, High StreetTerraced | Sept 2009 | £226,000 | 95 m² | £2,379/m² | 3 |
| 52, High StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2002 | £150,000 | 90 m² | £1,667/m² | 2 |
| 53, High StreetSemi-detached | Apr 2005 | £190,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 55, High StreetTerraced | Nov 2022 | £440,000 | 94 m² | £4,681/m² | 3 |
| 57, High StreetDetached | Jan 1998 | £135,000 | 149 m² | £906/m² | 2 |
| 58, High StreetDetached | Jun 2015 | £500,000 | 159 m² | £3,145/m² | 1 |
| 60, High StreetDetached | Mar 2025 | £703,000 | 115 m² | £6,113/m² | 2 |
| 62, High StreetDetached | Sept 2015 | £410,000 | 119 m² | £3,445/m² | 4 |
| The Laurels, High StreetDetached | Sept 2022 | £421,000 | 93 m² | £4,527/m² | 2 |
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, a drive away (9.7 km), with 10.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is High Street, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 8).
The nearest primary school is Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School, and Pre-School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 70% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Northstowe Learning Community, 5.4 km away; Attainment 8: 51.4 · 23.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Parkside Community College (5.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco (Main Shop), 1.4 km away; Holland & Barrett (1.4 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre (1.2 km), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Ashleys the Barbers is 900 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.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (1.3 km), and The Black Horse Inn Dry Drayton the nearest pub (350 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 Pump Green, 100 m away; for exercise, Waves Health & Leisure Club (1.5 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.
6 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 Spinney | II | 90 m |
| Icehouse, at Rear of Country Kennels | II | 90 m |
| 9 and 11, Pettits Lane | II | 90 m |
| Post Office Cottages | II | 100 m |
| Village Water Pump | II | 110 m |
| 15 and 17, Pettits Lane | II | 150 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.
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire constituency: Ian Sollom MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 4,621 (8.7%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 37%, Conservative 28%, Labour 13%, Reform UK 11%.
3 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 8BS →
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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in South Cambridgeshire 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 404 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 10 of 299 homes with certificates have solar panels, 22 a heat pump, and 199 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.1% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.7% | 3.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 73.0% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 10.8% | 14.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.5% | 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.