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On The Ridgeway, in Cuffley & Northaw
What it's like at EN6 4BB: every home that has sold on The Ridgeway 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 The Ridgeway; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 96 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 19, The RidgewayDetached | Sept 2003 | £2,850,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21, The RidgewayDetached | Apr 2024 | £5,170,000 | 447 m² | £11,566/m² | 4 |
| 23, The RidgewayDetached | Jan 2025 | £2,000,000 | 216 m² | £9,259/m² | 1 |
| 23a, The RidgewayDetached | Nov 2019 | £1,885,000 | 703 m² | £2,681/m² | 2 |
| 25, The RidgewayDetached | Feb 2000 | £1,650,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, The RidgewayDetached | Nov 2018 | £3,850,000 | 555 m² | £6,937/m² | 2 |
| 29, The RidgewayDetached | Sept 2018 | £3,500,000 | 94 m² | £37,234/m² | 1 |
| 31, The RidgewayDetached | Mar 2006 | £2,085,000 | 580 m² | £3,595/m² | 2 |
| 35, The RidgewayDetached | Jun 2021 | £1,275,000 | 124 m² | £10,282/m² | 1 |
| 37, The RidgewayDetached | Oct 2015 | £2,410,000 | 408 m² | £5,907/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Cuffley, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 663k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Moorgate.
The nearest bus stop is Hanyards Lane, 400 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 308).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Northaw Church of England Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km); 44% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Gracewood Academy, 3.8 km away.
Grammar schools are within reach: Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (8.6 km) and The Latymer School (9.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.5 km away, with Homewood Delights closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cuffley And Goffs Oak Medical Practice (1.4 km), with Salepick the closest pharmacy (1.5 km).
For a haircut, Sen House of Nails is 1.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Barnet General Hospital, 9.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Cufflley Active Learning Centres is the closest café or restaurant (850 m), and The Plough the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 31 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 68% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 27% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 112 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Gladding Road Open Space, 3.0 km away; for exercise, Potters Bar Pilates Studio (3.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.6 µg/m³).
1 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.
Hertsmere constituency: Sir Oliver Dowden MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 7,992 (16.6%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 45%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
11 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 EN6 4BB →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
For holidays, London Luton is 25 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 25% 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: 3 of 74 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 1.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.0% | 7.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.5% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 55 min
Nearest: Epping Ongar Railway · about 40 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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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 96 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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