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On Roots Lane, in Great Totham, Wickham Bishops & Woodham
What it's like at CM8 3LS: every home that has sold on Roots 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Roots Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Roots LaneDetached | Oct 2007 | £340,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Roots LaneDetached | Dec 2022 | £545,000 | 85 m² | £6,412/m² | 1 |
| 8, Roots LaneDetached | Feb 2021 | £565,000 | 93 m² | £6,075/m² | 3 |
| 9, Roots LaneDetached | Jul 2010 | £430,000 | 252 m² | £1,706/m² | 2 |
| 10, Roots LaneDetached | Nov 2025 | £650,000 | 141 m² | £4,610/m² | 3 |
| 12, Roots LaneDetached | Feb 2019 | £625,000 | 175 m² | £3,571/m² | 1 |
| 14, Roots LaneDetached | Dec 2024 | £695,000 | 121 m² | £5,744/m² | 2 |
| 15, Roots LaneDetached | Aug 2023 | £726,000 | 126 m² | £5,762/m² | 1 |
| 16, Roots LaneDetached | May 2019 | £490,000 | 144 m² | £3,403/m² | 1 |
| 17, Roots LaneDetached | Jun 2016 | £625,000 | 220 m² | £2,841/m² | 2 |
| 19, Roots LaneDetached | Dec 2013 | £390,000 | 207 m² | £1,884/m² | 2 |
| 21, Roots LaneDetached | Nov 2020 | £757,500 | 147 m² | £5,153/m² | 4 |
| Crispins, Roots LaneDetached | Feb 1996 | £297,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Glenord, 1, Roots LaneDetached | Jul 2023 | £950,000 | 262 m² | £3,626/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 Witham (Essex), a drive away (3.9 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is One Stop, 300 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route PL2); 1 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 41 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
Central London is 62 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Great Totham Primary School, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km); 82% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Lift Maltings, 3.4 km away; Attainment 8: 39.9 · 4.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chelmsford County High School for Girls (14.1 km) and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (14.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 2.6 km away, with Wickham Bishops Health Foods closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Fern House Surgery (3.2 km), with Borno Chemists the closest pharmacy (3.2 km).
For a haircut, Wickham Barbers is 300 m 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: 12 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Mrs Salisbury's Of Wickham Bishops is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Green Man the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 320 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 68% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 20% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 367 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Rainbow Field, 650 m away; for exercise, Benton Hall Golf & Country Club (1.9 km).
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 Coach House | II | 200 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.
Witham constituency: Priti Patel MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,145 (10.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 37%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 7%.
8 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 CM8 3LS →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 21 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 33 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 51% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 28% 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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Roots Lane in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 12 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 | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.7% | 2.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 31.5% | 66.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 55.2% | 21.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.7% | 8.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.2% | 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: West Mersea · about 31 min
Nearest: Colne Valley Railway · about 41 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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