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On Merling Croft, in Northchurch & Potten End
What it's like at HP4 3XB: every home that has sold on Merling Croft 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Merling Croft; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 26 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Merling CroftTerraced | Aug 2019 | £450,000 | 70 m² | £6,429/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Merling CroftFlat | Dec 2021 | £257,500 | 52 m² | £4,952/m² | 4 |
| 3, Merling CroftTerraced | Sept 2023 | £470,000 | 66 m² | £7,121/m² | 1 |
| 5, Merling CroftDetached | Apr 2013 | £287,000 | 58 m² | £4,948/m² | 1 |
| 6, Merling CroftFlat | Apr 2007 | £189,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 7, Merling CroftFlat | Aug 2013 | £171,000 | 51 m² | £3,353/m² | 4 |
| 8, Merling CroftFlat | Sept 2016 | £245,000 | 50 m² | £4,900/m² | 3 |
| 9, Merling CroftFlat | Nov 2001 | £93,000 | 49 m² | £1,898/m² | 3 |
| 10, Merling CroftTerraced | Jul 2016 | £450,000 | 60 m² | £7,500/m² | 1 |
| 11, Merling CroftFlat | Jun 2006 | £150,000 | 51 m² | £2,941/m² | 2 |
| 14, Merling CroftSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £491,500 | 84 m² | £5,851/m² | 2 |
| 15, Merling CroftFlat | Dec 2020 | £235,000 | 50 m² | £4,700/m² | 2 |
| 16, Merling CroftTerraced | Nov 2016 | £485,000 | 68 m² | £7,132/m² | 4 |
| 17, Merling CroftSemi-detached | Jul 2023 | £610,000 | 94 m² | £6,489/m² | 3 |
| 18, Merling CroftTerraced | Jul 2012 | £337,000 | 64 m² | £5,266/m² | 4 |
| 19, Merling CroftSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £435,000 | 68 m² | £6,397/m² | 2 |
| 20, Merling CroftTerraced | Mar 2025 | £570,000 | 85 m² | £6,706/m² | 3 |
| 24, Merling CroftDetached | Jun 2023 | £420,000 | 58 m² | £7,241/m² | 1 |
| 26, Merling CroftTerraced | Oct 1997 | £93,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Merling CroftTerraced | Jul 2026 | £600,000 | 86 m² | £6,977/m² | 2 |
| 30, Merling CroftDetached | Dec 2025 | £530,000 | 70 m² | £7,571/m² | 4 |
| 32, Merling CroftTerraced | Apr 1996 | £95,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Merling CroftTerraced | Mar 2021 | £500,000 | 92 m² | £5,435/m² | 2 |
| 38, Merling CroftTerraced | Jan 2024 | £490,000 | 86 m² | £5,698/m² | 2 |
| 40, Merling CroftSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £400,000 | 79 m² | £5,063/m² | 3 |
| 42, Merling CroftSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £485,000 | 68 m² | £7,132/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: 52% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Berkhamsted, a short drive or bike ride (2.2 km), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is Darr's Lane, 50 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 500, X500); 4 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 50 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
Central London is 43 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Mary's CofE Primary School, Northchurch, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 53% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ashlyns School, 2.8 km away; Attainment 8: 57.9 · 22.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chesham Grammar School (8.1 km) and Dr Challoner's Grammar School (11.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 100 m away; Community Pantry at Northchurch Baptist Church (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Gossoms End Surgery (1.3 km), with Acorn Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.0 km).
For a haircut, Close Shave is 1.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Luton and Dunstable Hospital, 14 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 5 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
George & Dragon is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Northchurch Cricket Club the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 117 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 21% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 130 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Normandy Drive Play Area, 1.4 km away; for exercise, Sportspace (1.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.3 µg/m³).
12 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Cottage | II | 80 m |
| Exhims | II | 120 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.
Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency: Victoria Collins MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 10,708 (19.7%), turnout 75%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 50%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 8%, Labour 8%.
5 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 HP4 3XB →
For holidays, London Luton is 18 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 19 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 | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.3% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 77.7% | 87.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 13.9% | 1.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.3% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.7% | 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 59 min
Nearest: Leighton Buzzard Light Railway · about 37 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 26 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.