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On Thorpe Close, in Bromham & Biddenham
What it's like at MK40 4RA: every home that has sold on Thorpe Close 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 Thorpe Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 10 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Thorpe CloseDetached | Aug 2015 | £710,000 | 253 m² | £2,806/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Thorpe CloseDetached | Mar 2025 | £850,000 | 222 m² | £3,829/m² | 3 |
| 4, Thorpe CloseDetached | Oct 2006 | £465,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Thorpe CloseDetached | Feb 1997 | £195,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Thorpe CloseDetached | Jan 1997 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Thorpe CloseDetached | Nov 2013 | £462,500 | 195 m² | £2,372/m² | 4 |
| 9, Thorpe CloseDetached | Jun 2020 | £655,000 | 163 m² | £4,018/m² | 2 |
| 10, Thorpe CloseDetached | Oct 2013 | £490,000 | 220 m² | £2,227/m² | 2 |
| 11, Thorpe CloseDetached | Oct 2018 | £900,000 | 265 m² | £3,396/m² | 4 |
| 12, Thorpe CloseDetached | Jul 2002 | £475,000 | – | – | 2 |
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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bedford, a short drive or bike ride (2.2 km), with 3.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
Central London is 75 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St James' CofE Academy, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 54% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Great Denham Primary School (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is Biddenham International School and Sports College, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 42.1 · 6.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bedford Free School (3.7 km) and Goldington Academy (5.1 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 1.5 km away; The Village Pharmacy (1.4 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Village Medical Centre (1.3 km), with The Village Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Only You is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Bedford Hospital, 3.5 km away, rated requires improvement 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Mill Coffee Shop is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and The Three Tuns the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 50 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 47% of homes.
It's new: 50% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 523 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Biddenham Recreation Ground, 300 m away; for exercise, Biddenham Country Park Sports Centre (550 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 31 km away.
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
10 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.
North Bedfordshire constituency: Richard Fuller MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,414 (10.5%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 39%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 16%, Liberal Democrat 11%.
29 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 MK40 4RA →
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.
On this street: 0 of 6 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 | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.1% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.6% | 86.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 3.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.6% | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.5% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 78 min
Nearest: Eversholt Swimming Pool · about 36 min
Nearest: Stadium MK · about 32 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 10 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.