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On Ancient Meadows, in Swaffham & Bottisham
What it's like at CB25 9AX: every home that has sold on Ancient Meadows 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.
Sales and extensions on Ancient Meadows; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 37 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Ancient MeadowsSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £332,000 | 112 m² | £2,964/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Apr 2015 | £67,500 | 63 m² | £1,071/m² | 1 |
| 17, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Dec 2012 | £45,000 | 44 m² | £1,023/m² | 2 |
| 19, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Apr 2015 | £82,500 | 92 m² | £897/m² | 1 |
| 20, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Apr 2008 | £299,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Sept 2023 | £228,000 | 60 m² | £3,800/m² | 4 |
| 22, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Aug 2010 | £315,000 | 127 m² | £2,480/m² | 1 |
| 24, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Jan 2011 | £325,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Nov 2014 | £235,000 | 107 m² | £2,196/m² | 2 |
| 26, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Nov 2011 | £310,000 | 122 m² | £2,541/m² | 1 |
| 27, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Mar 2013 | £180,000 | 68 m² | £2,647/m² | 3 |
| 28, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Jul 2008 | £343,500 | 134 m² | £2,563/m² | 1 |
| 29, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Oct 2020 | £270,000 | 109 m² | £2,477/m² | 2 |
| 30, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Jul 2009 | £239,995 | 96 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 31, Ancient MeadowsFlat | May 2008 | £309,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Ancient MeadowsFlat | Dec 2019 | £281,000 | 108 m² | £2,602/m² | 2 |
| 34, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Oct 2008 | £335,000 | 138 m² | £2,428/m² | 2 |
| 36, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Jan 2018 | £399,000 | 127 m² | £3,142/m² | 3 |
| 38, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Sept 2016 | £399,000 | 124 m² | £3,218/m² | 2 |
| Parking Space, 38, Ancient MeadowsOther | Sept 2016 | £399,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, Ancient MeadowsTerraced | Apr 2015 | £352,500 | 127 m² | £2,776/m² | 2 |
| 42, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Oct 2017 | £645,000 | 192 m² | £3,359/m² | 2 |
| 44, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Apr 2012 | £450,000 | 166 m² | £2,711/m² | 1 |
| 46, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Jun 2013 | £445,000 | 162 m² | £2,747/m² | 1 |
| 48, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Jun 2013 | £435,000 | 166 m² | £2,620/m² | 1 |
| 50, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Oct 2024 | £900,000 | 248 m² | £3,629/m² | 2 |
| 52, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Apr 2020 | £737,500 | 221 m² | £3,337/m² | 2 |
| 54, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Mar 2012 | £749,995 | 255 m² | £2,941/m² | 1 |
| 56, Ancient MeadowsSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £442,500 | 161 m² | £2,748/m² | 1 |
| 57, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Apr 2015 | £460,000 | 192 m² | £2,396/m² | 1 |
| 58, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Nov 2011 | £499,950 | 161 m² | £3,105/m² | 1 |
| 59, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Feb 2021 | £580,000 | 157 m² | £3,694/m² | 2 |
| 60, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Feb 2025 | £870,000 | 246 m² | £3,537/m² | 2 |
| 61, Ancient MeadowsSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £432,000 | 166 m² | £2,602/m² | 1 |
| 62, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Oct 2014 | £600,000 | 221 m² | £2,715/m² | 1 |
| 63, Ancient MeadowsDetached | May 2012 | £435,000 | 162 m² | £2,685/m² | 1 |
| 64, Ancient MeadowsDetached | Aug 2013 | £620,000 | 255 m² | £2,431/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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Waterbeach, a drive away (6.1 km), with 372k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Cambridge.
The nearest bus stop is Bell Road, 300 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 12, B5); 2 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 63 minutes away by public transport (25 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Bottisham Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bottisham Village College, 550 m away; Attainment 8: 51.1 · 16.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Bottisham, 350 m away; The Country Store & Post Office (1.9 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bottisham Medical Practice (150 m), with Bottisham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Morgan's is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals, 12 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: 6 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Lexi's Cafe And Bakery is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The Bell Inn the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 236 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 108 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Dirt Hills, 350 m away; for exercise, Barn (400 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 37 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
19 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.
Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency: Charlotte Cane MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 495 (0.9%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 33%, Conservative 32%, Labour 18%, Reform UK 12%.
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 CB25 9AX →
It's an older community: 25% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 43% 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: 0 of 30 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 6.0% | 4.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 52.0% | 73.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 34.3% | 15.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.7% | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 0.1% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 61 min
Nearest: Nene Valley Railway · about 45 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 East 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 37 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.