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On Castle Way, in East Malling, West Malling & Trottiscliffe
What it's like at ME19 5HW: every home that has sold on Castle Way 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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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 Castle Way; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 30 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 155, Castle WaySemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £200,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157, Castle WaySemi-detached | Oct 2012 | £215,000 | 101 m² | £2,129/m² | 2 |
| 159, Castle WaySemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £275,000 | 84 m² | £3,274/m² | 2 |
| 161, Castle WaySemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £345,000 | 83 m² | £4,157/m² | 3 |
| 163, Castle WaySemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £405,000 | 142 m² | £2,852/m² | 3 |
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: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is New Hythe, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 184k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Maidstone West.
The nearest bus stop is RSPCA Centre, 50 m away, with a bus about every 29 minutes on weekdays (routes 72, 151, W3, 552); 10 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 43 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km); 81% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Holmesdale School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 41.6 · 0.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Oakwood Park Grammar School (7.7 km) and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (8.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Inc Filling Station, 1.1 km away; Larkfield Food And Wine (1.0 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Larkfield Surgery, Chaucer Way (1.0 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Faking it is 950 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Maidstone Hospital, 6.6 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 27 restaurants and cafés and 18 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Tesco Family Dining is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and Maidstone (West Malling) Premier Inn the nearest pub (650 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 354 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 36% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 511 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Larkfield Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Larkfield Leisure Centre (1.2 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.
Tonbridge constituency: Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 11,166 (22.2%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Conservative 41%, Labour 19%, Green Party 15%, Reform UK 15%.
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 ME19 5HW →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
For holidays, London City is 33 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 44 km.
Most households own their home, 12% rent privately.
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: 2 of 18 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 | 2.2% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 85.7% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 7.1% | 3.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.0% | 5.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.6% | 1.2% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Tonbridge and Malling 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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Sheerness · about 32 min
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