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On Hillcrest, in Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester
What it's like at CB23 8TH: every home that has sold on Hillcrest 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). 4 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 Hillcrest; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 122 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 99, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jul 1995 | £46,500 | 55 m² | £845/m² | 1 |
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| 100, HillcrestSemi-detached | Sept 2003 | £120,000 | 50 m² | £2,400/m² | 1 |
| 101, HillcrestDetached | Jan 2017 | £212,000 | 56 m² | £3,786/m² | 3 |
| 102, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £205,000 | 55 m² | £3,727/m² | 3 |
| 103, HillcrestSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £263,000 | 68 m² | £3,868/m² | 3 |
| 105, HillcrestSemi-detached | Aug 2013 | £179,000 | 80 m² | £2,238/m² | 3 |
| 106, HillcrestSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £310,000 | 67 m² | £4,627/m² | 5 |
| 108, HillcrestSemi-detached | May 2006 | £159,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 109, HillcrestSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £252,500 | 68 m² | £3,713/m² | 4 |
| 110, HillcrestSemi-detached | Dec 1999 | £81,000 | 47 m² | £1,723/m² | 1 |
| 111, HillcrestDetached | Sept 1995 | £89,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 113, HillcrestDetached | Feb 2004 | £175,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 114, HillcrestDetached | Jan 2025 | £315,000 | 76 m² | £4,145/m² | 2 |
| 115, HillcrestDetached | Mar 2021 | £305,000 | 74 m² | £4,122/m² | 1 |
| 116, HillcrestDetached | Dec 2019 | £350,000 | 94 m² | £3,723/m² | 4 |
| 117, HillcrestDetached | Sept 2014 | £230,000 | 87 m² | £2,644/m² | 2 |
| 118, HillcrestDetached | Aug 1997 | £83,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 119, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £163,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 120, HillcrestSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £260,000 | 69 m² | £3,768/m² | 2 |
| 122, HillcrestSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £246,500 | 57 m² | £4,325/m² | 4 |
| 123, HillcrestSemi-detached | Dec 2015 | £216,000 | 55 m² | £3,927/m² | 2 |
| 124, HillcrestSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £56,500 | 54 m² | £1,046/m² | 1 |
| 125, HillcrestSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £268,000 | 67 m² | £4,000/m² | 7 |
| 127, HillcrestSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £275,000 | 69 m² | £3,986/m² | 1 |
| 128, HillcrestSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £259,995 | 67 m² | £3,881/m² | 4 |
| 130, HillcrestSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £260,000 | 64 m² | £4,063/m² | 3 |
| 131, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jun 2022 | £275,500 | 65 m² | £4,238/m² | 4 |
| 133, HillcrestSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £295,000 | 66 m² | £4,470/m² | 4 |
| 134, HillcrestSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £237,500 | 66 m² | £3,598/m² | 5 |
| 135, HillcrestDetached | Aug 2018 | £287,000 | 58 m² | £4,948/m² | 4 |
| 137, HillcrestTerraced | Feb 2018 | £172,000 | 32 m² | £5,375/m² | 4 |
| 138, HillcrestTerraced | Jul 2025 | £177,000 | 33 m² | £5,364/m² | 2 |
| 139, HillcrestTerraced | Jan 2003 | £86,000 | 46 m² | £1,870/m² | 5 |
| 140, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jun 2003 | £90,000 | 33 m² | £2,727/m² | 3 |
| 141, HillcrestTerraced | Aug 2001 | £95,000 | 66 m² | £1,439/m² | 3 |
| 142, HillcrestTerraced | Jul 2023 | £267,000 | 66 m² | £4,045/m² | 4 |
| 143, HillcrestSemi-detached | Jun 2004 | £140,000 | 37 m² | £3,784/m² | 2 |
| 144, HillcrestTerraced | Oct 2004 | £146,000 | 44 m² | £3,318/m² | 2 |
| 145, HillcrestDetached | Aug 2017 | £332,500 | 97 m² | £3,428/m² | 5 |
| 147, HillcrestDetached | Oct 2001 | £157,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 150, HillcrestDetached | Dec 2014 | £245,000 | 98 m² | £2,500/m² | 2 |
| 151, HillcrestDetached | Jul 2003 | £177,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 153, HillcrestDetached | Mar 2007 | £240,000 | – | – | 3 |
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 (9.4 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Hill Crest, 150 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, 4.4 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), 800 m away; Holland & Barrett (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre (700 m), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Total Relaxation is 500 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 (700 m), and Bar Hill Sports And Social Club the nearest pub (700 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, 750 m away; for exercise, Waves Health & Leisure Club (600 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.
13 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%.
5 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 8TH →
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.
On this street: 1 of 95 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 15 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.
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 122 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.