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On Ditton Lane, in Milton, Fen Ditton & Quy
What it's like at CB5 8SS: every home that has sold on Ditton 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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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 Ditton Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 59 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 102, Ditton LaneDetached | Nov 2003 | £307,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104, Ditton LaneDetached | Dec 2025 | £650,000 | 171 m² | £3,801/m² | 3 |
| 106, Ditton LaneDetached | Sept 2002 | £785,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 112, Ditton LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2003 | £174,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 122, Ditton LaneDetached | Oct 2010 | £221,000 | 86 m² | £2,570/m² | 2 |
| 123, Ditton LaneTerraced | Jun 2020 | £375,000 | 104 m² | £3,606/m² | 3 |
| 124, Ditton LaneTerraced | Dec 2023 | £455,501 | 68 m² | £6,699/m² | 4 |
| 125, Ditton LaneTerraced | Jun 2021 | £375,000 | 90 m² | £4,167/m² | 2 |
| 127, Ditton LaneTerraced | Nov 2012 | £239,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 129, Ditton LaneDetached | Jan 2018 | £525,000 | 84 m² | £6,250/m² | 1 |
| 130, Ditton LaneSemi-detached | Jul 1999 | £89,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 131, Ditton LaneDetached | Mar 2025 | £615,000 | 109 m² | £5,642/m² | 2 |
| 138, Ditton LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2024 | £512,000 | 100 m² | £5,120/m² | 4 |
| Trinity Lodge, 133, Ditton LaneDetached | Aug 2002 | £385,000 | – | – | 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: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Cambridge North, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Fison Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 100); 8 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Fen Ditton Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 63% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is North Cambridge Academy, 2.9 km away; Attainment 8: 43.9 · 10.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Parkside Community College (4.2 km) and St Bede's Inter-Church School (4.7 km).
Few families with young children: only 15% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.9 km away, with One Stop closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is East Barnwell Health Centre (650 m), with Ditton Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Barnwell Barbers is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals, 6.7 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: 24 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Ancient Shepherds by Mark Poynton is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Kings Head the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 148 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 88 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 40% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 710 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Thorpe Way Recreation Ground, 300 m away; for exercise, R3form (950 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Stansted is 39 km away.
14 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 Ancient Shepherd | II | 160 m |
| 6, High Ditch Road | II | 170 m |
| Musgrave Farmhouse | II* | 180 m |
| K6 Kiosk | II | 190 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.
South Cambridgeshire constituency: Pippa Heylings MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 10,641 (19.4%), turnout 71%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 47%, Conservative 27%, Labour 11%, Reform UK 9%.
29 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 CB5 8SS →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 53% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of Cambridge, 4.1 km away (TEF Gold).
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: 3 of 46 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 5 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 5.1% | 4.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 77.4% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 8.1% | 14.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.1% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.9% | 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 67 min
Nearest: Nene Valley Railway · about 51 min
Nearest: Shepreth Wildlife Park · 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 59 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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