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On Meryl Gardens, in Walmer
What it's like at CT14 7QH: every home that has sold on Meryl Gardens 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Meryl Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 22 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2013 | £240,000 | 118 m² | £2,034/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2017 | £335,000 | 108 m² | £3,102/m² | 2 |
| 3, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | May 2023 | £302,500 | 64 m² | £4,727/m² | 1 |
| 5, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £395,000 | 123 m² | £3,211/m² | 3 |
| 6, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £300,101 | 77 m² | £3,897/m² | 1 |
| 7, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £257,000 | 64 m² | £4,016/m² | 1 |
| 8, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2011 | £175,000 | 107 m² | £1,636/m² | 2 |
| 9, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2013 | £189,995 | 67 m² | £2,836/m² | 3 |
| 10, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £222,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Oct 1997 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £91,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 13, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £380,000 | 116 m² | £3,276/m² | 3 |
| 14, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £360,000 | 68 m² | £5,294/m² | 3 |
| 15, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2020 | £295,000 | 83 m² | £3,554/m² | 4 |
| 16, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Dec 1998 | £62,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2000 | £120,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2024 | £270,000 | 94 m² | £2,872/m² | 1 |
| 19, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | May 2013 | £172,500 | 59 m² | £2,924/m² | 2 |
| 20, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £180,000 | 66 m² | £2,727/m² | 3 |
| 21, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £250,000 | 73 m² | £3,425/m² | 1 |
| 22, Meryl GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £397,950 | 110 m² | £3,618/m² | 2 |
| 23, Meryl GardensDetached | Dec 2020 | £395,000 | 126 m² | £3,135/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Walmer, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 222k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Gothic Close, 100 m away, with a bus about every 46 minutes on weekdays (routes 12, 93, 81B, 82A); 14 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 70 minutes away by public transport (44 by car).
The nearest primary school is The Downs Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 48% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Goodwin Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 30.5 · 1.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sir Roger Manwood's School (7.7 km) and Dover Grammar School for Girls (10.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 950 m away, with Walmer Greggs closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balmoral Surgery (1.1 km), with Walmer Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Keith Chadwick is 1.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, 19 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 55% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 16 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
MFG Esso Walmer is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Freed Man the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 19% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 196 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Victoria Park, 1.8 km away; for exercise, The Fitness Mix Cycling Studio (1.1 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Deal Castle, 2.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 63 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 110 km.
27 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gothic House | 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Dover and Deal constituency: Mike Tapp MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 7,585 (15.9%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 22%, Green Party 7%.
20 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 CT14 7QH →
Most households own their home, 15% rent privately.
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.
Nearest: Faversham Swimming Pools · about 36 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: 0 of 17 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 | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.8% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 3.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.3% | 5.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
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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 22 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.