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On The Brambles, in Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester
What it's like at CB23 8SZ: every home that has sold on The Brambles 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Brambles; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 87 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, The BramblesDetached | Aug 2017 | £330,000 | 98 m² | £3,367/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7, The BramblesSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £84,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, The BramblesDetached | Mar 2001 | £97,000 | 68 m² | £1,426/m² | 1 |
| 11, The BramblesSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £330,000 | 68 m² | £4,853/m² | 4 |
| 13, The BramblesSemi-detached | Jan 2026 | £279,000 | 57 m² | £4,895/m² | 4 |
| 15, The BramblesSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £273,000 | 57 m² | £4,789/m² | 3 |
| 19, The BramblesDetached | Mar 2013 | £249,500 | 115 m² | £2,170/m² | 2 |
| 21, The BramblesDetached | Oct 2022 | £375,000 | 112 m² | £3,348/m² | 4 |
| 23, The BramblesDetached | Dec 2003 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, The BramblesSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £285,000 | 70 m² | £4,071/m² | 4 |
| 27, The BramblesSemi-detached | Mar 2024 | £306,000 | 67 m² | £4,567/m² | 3 |
| 29, The BramblesSemi-detached | Apr 2004 | £155,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 33, The BramblesDetached | Oct 1997 | £87,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, The BramblesDetached | Jun 2018 | £299,995 | 102 m² | £2,941/m² | 2 |
| 37, The BramblesDetached | Mar 2024 | £372,000 | 97 m² | £3,835/m² | 2 |
| 41, The BramblesDetached | Nov 2025 | £360,000 | 99 m² | £3,636/m² | 1 |
| 43, The BramblesDetached | Feb 2006 | £232,500 | 100 m² | £2,325/m² | 1 |
| 45, The BramblesDetached | Aug 2018 | £385,000 | 98 m² | £3,929/m² | 1 |
| 47, The BramblesDetached | Dec 2023 | £410,000 | 93 m² | £4,409/m² | 2 |
| 51, The BramblesDetached | Nov 2012 | £230,000 | 111 m² | £2,072/m² | 1 |
| 53, The BramblesDetached | Sept 1998 | £104,750 | – | – | 1 |
| 57, The BramblesDetached | Sept 2021 | £345,000 | 75 m² | £4,600/m² | 1 |
| 63, The BramblesSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £340,000 | 92 m² | £3,696/m² | 3 |
| 67, The BramblesSemi-detached | May 2003 | £134,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 71, The BramblesSemi-detached | Oct 2003 | £132,500 | 71 m² | £1,866/m² | 2 |
| 73, The BramblesTerraced | Dec 1998 | £43,000 | 57 m² | £754/m² | 1 |
| 75, The BramblesTerraced | Jun 2011 | £100,000 | 55 m² | £1,818/m² | 3 |
| 77, The BramblesSemi-detached | Nov 1998 | £59,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 83, The BramblesSemi-detached | Sept 2000 | £75,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 85, The BramblesDetached | Nov 2003 | £232,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 87, The BramblesDetached | Mar 2018 | £345,000 | 101 m² | £3,416/m² | 1 |
| 89, The BramblesSemi-detached | May 2018 | £248,000 | 77 m² | £3,221/m² | 3 |
| 91, The BramblesSemi-detached | Feb 2002 | £113,500 | 68 m² | £1,669/m² | 2 |
| 95, The BramblesTerraced | Mar 2011 | £163,500 | 63 m² | £2,595/m² | 2 |
| 97, The BramblesOther | Jun 2025 | £289,500 | 64 m² | £4,523/m² | 3 |
| 99, The BramblesTerraced | Dec 2011 | £175,000 | 69 m² | £2,536/m² | 1 |
| 101, The BramblesSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £64,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 103, The BramblesSemi-detached | Jun 2016 | £217,500 | 57 m² | £3,816/m² | 4 |
| 105, The BramblesTerraced | Dec 2022 | £200,000 | 36 m² | £5,556/m² | 4 |
| 107, The BramblesTerraced | May 2017 | £125,000 | 32 m² | £3,906/m² | 2 |
| 109, The BramblesDetached | Nov 2020 | £345,000 | 112 m² | £3,080/m² | 5 |
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 North, a drive away (9.3 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Chestnut Rise, 200 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 5); 11 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Bar Hill Community Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 74% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Northstowe Learning Community, 4.2 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), 800 m away; Holland & Barrett (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre (750 m), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Total Relaxation is 600 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 (750 m), and The Fox the nearest pub (750 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 Bar Hill Nature Reserve, 950 m away; for exercise, Waves Health & Leisure Club (500 m).
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.
9 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.
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%.
4 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 8SZ →
It's highly educated: 51% of adults have a degree.
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 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 87 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 2 of 70 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 4 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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