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On Church Street, in Bocking Churchstreet & Blackwater
What it's like at CM7 5LH: every home that has sold on Church Street 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.
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 Church Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
8 of the 196 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 143, Church StreetDetached | Jul 2018 | £250,000 | 64 m² | £3,906/m² | 1 |
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| 161, Church StreetDetached | Sept 2019 | £340,000 | 92 m² | £3,696/m² | 1 |
| 167, Church StreetDetached | Aug 2007 | £331,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 171, Church StreetSemi-detached | Jan 1997 | £59,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 171a, Church StreetDetached | Dec 2020 | £330,000 | 93 m² | £3,548/m² | 1 |
| 175, Church StreetTerraced | Mar 2005 | £167,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 181, Church StreetFlat | Sept 2025 | £195,000 | 51 m² | £3,824/m² | 1 |
| 183, Church StreetFlat | Nov 2021 | £165,000 | 53 m² | £3,113/m² | 1 |
| 195, Church StreetTerraced | Jul 2005 | £119,999 | – | – | 5 |
| 203, Church StreetDetached | May 1999 | £125,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 207, Church StreetDetached | Jan 2014 | £192,750 | 104 m² | £1,853/m² | 1 |
| 211, Church StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £310,000 | 78 m² | £3,974/m² | 3 |
| 213, Church StreetSemi-detached | Nov 1995 | £46,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 215, Church StreetSemi-detached | Jan 2000 | £85,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 217, Church StreetSemi-detached | May 2019 | £420,000 | 115 m² | £3,652/m² | 4 |
| 225, Church StreetTerraced | Oct 2019 | £350,000 | 130 m² | £2,692/m² | 2 |
| 229, Church StreetTerraced | Apr 2008 | £95,000 | 98 m² | £969/m² | 1 |
| 233, Church StreetTerraced | Aug 2008 | £162,500 | 85 m² | £1,912/m² | 1 |
| 235, Church StreetTerraced | Mar 2026 | £365,000 | 98 m² | £3,724/m² | 1 |
| 237, Church StreetTerraced | Aug 2025 | £335,000 | 88 m² | £3,807/m² | 1 |
| 245, Church StreetSemi-detached | Apr 2003 | £170,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 247, Church StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2000 | £89,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 249, Church StreetDetached | Jul 2001 | £168,000 | 169 m² | £994/m² | 1 |
| 251, Church StreetDetached | Oct 2022 | £477,500 | 103 m² | £4,636/m² | 1 |
| 253, Church StreetSemi-detached | May 2002 | £135,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 255, Church StreetTerraced | Sept 2017 | £295,000 | 83 m² | £3,554/m² | 1 |
| 257, Church StreetDetached | Jan 2021 | £650,000 | 196 m² | £3,316/m² | 3 |
| 259, Church StreetDetached | Jun 2016 | £390,000 | – | – | 4 |
| Field House, Church StreetDetached | Oct 2010 | £465,500 | 174 m² | £2,675/m² | 4 |
| Harriets Barn, Church StreetDetached | Apr 2021 | £885,000 | 240 m² | £3,688/m² | 1 |
| Harriets Farm, Church StreetDetached | May 1995 | £180,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Redlands, Church StreetDetached | Dec 2013 | £300,000 | – | – | 3 |
| The Willows, Church StreetDetached | Nov 2019 | £475,000 | 127 m² | £3,740/m² | 1 |
| Townfield, Church StreetDetached | Jan 2006 | £485,000 | 178 m² | £2,725/m² | 1 |
| Annexe, Townfield, Church StreetDetached | Apr 2015 | £540,000 | 44 m² | £12,273/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Braintree, a drive away (3.4 km), with 631k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is The Lillies, 100 m away, with a bus about every 23 minutes on weekdays (routes 38A, 38); 8 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 51 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
Central London is 65 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Bocking Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 62% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Tabor Academy, 2.7 km away; Attainment 8: 38.5 · 6.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 700 m away; Pebmarsh Pride Egg Shed (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Church Lane Surgery (1.6 km), with Christchurch Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.9 km).
For a haircut, Sisters Nails & Beauty is 3.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 23 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Weavers Restaurant And Bocking Village Club is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Braintree Hockey Club the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 78 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 42% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 543 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Meadowside Park, 2.2 km away; for exercise, Braintree BMX Track (1.6 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 23 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
6 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.
Braintree constituency: Sir James Cleverly MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,670 (7.5%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 23%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
26 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 CM7 5LH →
On this street: 0 of 142 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 20 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.2% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.5% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.7% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.6% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.7% | 0.4% | 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.
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.
Nearest: Manningtree Beach, Stour Estuary · about 37 min
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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 196 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.