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On Orton Close, in Margaretting, Stock & Ramsden
What it's like at CM4 9JN: every home that has sold on Orton Close 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Orton Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 18 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2008 | £162,000 | – | – | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2006 | £131,000 | 82 m² | £1,598/m² | 1 |
| 6, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £247,500 | 88 m² | £2,813/m² | 3 |
| 11, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2016 | £450,000 | 92 m² | £4,891/m² | 3 |
| 13, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2001 | £91,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Orton CloseTerraced | Dec 2025 | £362,500 | 72 m² | £5,035/m² | 1 |
| 16, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2002 | £155,000 | 82 m² | £1,890/m² | 2 |
| 17, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £180,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Orton CloseTerraced | Jun 2021 | £310,000 | 75 m² | £4,133/m² | 3 |
| 22, Orton CloseTerraced | Sept 2000 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Orton CloseTerraced | Jan 2001 | £93,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Orton CloseTerraced | Mar 2007 | £50,000 | 75 m² | £667/m² | 1 |
| 29, Orton CloseTerraced | Jun 1995 | £56,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Orton CloseTerraced | Jul 2007 | £205,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 32, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Dec 1999 | £110,000 | 127 m² | £866/m² | 2 |
| 36, Orton CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £385,000 | 90 m² | £4,278/m² | 1 |
| 42, Orton CloseTerraced | Dec 2023 | £355,000 | 71 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 44, Orton CloseSemi-detached | May 2008 | £230,000 | – | – | 2 |
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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ingatestone, a drive away (3.5 km), with 779k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is The Black Bull, 150 m away, with a bus about every 43 minutes on weekdays (routes 351, 50); 6 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 44 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Margaretting Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 80% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Anglo European School, 2.9 km away; Attainment 8: 55.6 · 16.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (8.8 km) and Chelmsford County High School for Girls (9.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 3.0 km away, with Ar \& Ca Smith closer still (1.1 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The New Folly Surgery (3.3 km), with Shadforth Pharmaceutical Co the closest pharmacy (3.1 km).
For a haircut, Kennadys is 3.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Southend University Hospital, 20 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 50% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 18 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 16 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Ingatestone Saddlery Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and The White Hart Inn the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 116 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 50% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 129 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Margaretting Pond Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Pavilion (3.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.1 µg/m³).
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Milestone 12 metres North West of 9 Bank End Cottages | II | 100 m |
| Milestone 27 Metres South South West of the Spread Eagle Public House | II | 110 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.
Maldon constituency: Sir John Whittingdale MP (Conservative), since April 1992. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,906 (13.9%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 39%, Reform UK 25%, Labour 20%, Liberal Democrat 12%.
10 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 CM4 9JN →
For holidays, London Southend is 19 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 29 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 50% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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 Chelmsford 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 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Black Notley Community Association · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 10 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 10 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 7.9% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 61.9% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 22.0% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.8% | 10.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.9% | 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.