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On Wellands Close, in Great Totham, Wickham Bishops & Woodham
What it's like at CM8 3NE: every home that has sold on Wellands 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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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 Wellands 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.
| 1, Wellands CloseDetached | May 2021 | £450,000 | 80 m² | £5,625/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Wellands CloseDetached | Jun 2022 | £650,000 | 133 m² | £4,887/m² | 1 |
| 3, Wellands CloseDetached | May 2006 | £272,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Wellands CloseDetached | Jul 2015 | £445,611 | 127 m² | £3,509/m² | 1 |
| 6, Wellands CloseDetached | Jul 2018 | £455,000 | 107 m² | £4,252/m² | 2 |
| 10, Wellands CloseDetached | Oct 2014 | £425,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10a, Wellands CloseDetached | Jan 2005 | £365,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Wellands CloseDetached | Sept 2023 | £880,000 | 256 m² | £3,438/m² | 3 |
| 12, Wellands CloseDetached | Apr 2004 | £100,000 | 67 m² | £1,493/m² | 1 |
| 13, Wellands CloseDetached | Jul 1997 | £110,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Wellands CloseDetached | Sept 2019 | £390,000 | 117 m² | £3,333/m² | 2 |
| 19, Wellands CloseDetached | May 2015 | £380,000 | 121 m² | £3,140/m² | 1 |
| 20, Wellands CloseDetached | Apr 2024 | £440,000 | 81 m² | £5,432/m² | 2 |
| 22, Wellands CloseDetached | Mar 2001 | £157,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Wellands CloseDetached | Aug 1998 | £173,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Wellands CloseDetached | May 2013 | £425,000 | 131 m² | £3,244/m² | 2 |
| 28, Wellands CloseDetached | Jul 2019 | £460,000 | 143 m² | £3,217/m² | 1 |
| 29, Wellands CloseDetached | Mar 2008 | £853,500 | 239 m² | £3,571/m² | 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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Witham (Essex), a drive away (3.4 km), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Snows Corner, 400 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (route 90).
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, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 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, 2.9 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 Tesco, 2.7 km away, with Jane's Sweet Treats closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Fern House Surgery (2.7 km), with Borno Chemists the closest pharmacy (2.7 km).
For a haircut, Aquarius is 500 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 (600 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, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Benton Hall Golf & Country Club (1.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
10 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.
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%.
7 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 3NE →
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.
On this street: 0 of 12 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.7% | 2.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 31.3% | 66.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 55.4% | 21.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.8% | 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
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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 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.