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On Spring Lane, in Swaffham & Bottisham
What it's like at CB25 9BL: every home that has sold on Spring 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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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 Spring Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 20 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Spring LaneDetached | Nov 1998 | £149,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Spring LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £417,000 | 118 m² | £3,534/m² | 2 |
| 6, Spring LaneDetached | Apr 1995 | £120,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Spring LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £425,000 | 119 m² | £3,571/m² | 3 |
| 9, Spring LaneTerraced | Apr 2011 | £225,000 | 131 m² | £1,718/m² | 2 |
| 11, Spring LaneSemi-detached | May 2025 | £405,000 | 119 m² | £3,403/m² | 2 |
| 15, Spring LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2005 | £210,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Spring LaneTerraced | Sept 2003 | £169,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 19, Spring LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £370,000 | 103 m² | £3,592/m² | 1 |
| 20, Spring LaneTerraced | Mar 1997 | £79,750 | 103 m² | £774/m² | 1 |
| 25, Spring LaneTerraced | Apr 2012 | £225,000 | 117 m² | £1,923/m² | 3 |
| 27, Spring LaneTerraced | Jun 2016 | £355,000 | 118 m² | £3,008/m² | 2 |
| 29, Spring LaneTerraced | Jun 2018 | £249,950 | 123 m² | £2,032/m² | 2 |
| 31, Spring LaneTerraced | Feb 2023 | £399,995 | 130 m² | £3,077/m² | 2 |
| 33, Spring LaneTerraced | Oct 2022 | £430,000 | 119 m² | £3,613/m² | 1 |
| 35, Spring LaneTerraced | Oct 2024 | £382,500 | 123 m² | £3,110/m² | 6 |
| 39, Spring LaneTerraced | Jun 2003 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Spring LaneTerraced | Mar 2026 | £377,500 | 121 m² | £3,120/m² | 3 |
| 45, Spring LaneTerraced | Nov 2023 | £360,000 | 117 m² | £3,077/m² | 2 |
| 47, Spring LaneTerraced | Aug 2015 | £271,000 | 115 m² | £2,357/m² | 4 |
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 (6.4 km), with 372k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Cambridge.
The nearest bus stop is Stocks Close, 300 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 12, B5); 6 departures an hour from the 6 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 (200 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, 750 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 (2.1 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bottisham Medical Practice (400 m), with Bottisham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Bottisham Barber is 400 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 (350 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, 100 m away; for exercise, Barn (350 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.
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.
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%.
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 CB25 9BL →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
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.
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On this street: 0 of 15 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.
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 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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.