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On The Quarries, in Loose Valley & Boughton Monchelsea
What it's like at ME17 4NH: every home that has sold on The Quarries 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Quarries; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 59 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | Jun 2000 | £120,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | Mar 2025 | £275,000 | 53 m² | £5,189/m² | 7 |
| 5, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | Sept 2021 | £282,000 | 51 m² | £5,529/m² | 4 |
| 7, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | May 2015 | £207,500 | 68 m² | £3,051/m² | 3 |
| 9, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | Feb 2022 | £275,000 | 71 m² | £3,873/m² | 3 |
| 11, Bridge Cottages, The QuarriesTerraced | Aug 2024 | £310,000 | 56 m² | £5,536/m² | 3 |
| Beresford Farm, The QuarriesDetached | May 2025 | £785,000 | 231 m² | £3,398/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Maidstone West, a drive away (3.9 km), with 561k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Strood (Kent).
The nearest bus stop is The Albion Inn, 450 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 14).
Central London is 54 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Boughton Monchelsea Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (950 m); 47% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Leigh Academy Oaks (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is New Line Learning Academy, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 32.2 · 1.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: School of Science and Technology Maidstone (4.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Maidstone Grammar School (1.9 km) and Invicta Grammar School (3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 1.4 km away, with Boughton Stores closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Mote (1.4 km), with Morrisons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Doo-Das Hair is 1.8 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Maidstone Hospital, 4.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 6 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
The Curious Eatery is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Boughton Monchelsea Village Institute the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 50 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 33% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Boughton Monchelsea Recreation Ground, 800 m away; for exercise, Bob Prowse Health Club (2.7 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 38 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 51 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1-11, THE QUARRIES (See details for further address information) | II | 10 m |
| the Malt House | II | 120 m |
| Fir Tree Cottage | II | 130 m |
| Swiss Cottage | II | 150 m |
| Harts 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.
Weald of Kent constituency: Katie Lam MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 8,422 (16.6%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 23%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 9%.
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 ME17 4NH →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Maidstone since 2011.
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 59 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 43 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 | 2.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.3% | 86.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.9% | 3.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.9% | 7.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.5% | 0.4% | 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: Sheerness · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.