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On Alamein Avenue, in Kingsbrook
What it's like at MK42 0DF: every home that has sold on Alamein Avenue 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Alamein Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 26 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Alamein AvenueTerraced | Jul 2011 | £135,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Alamein AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2025 | £246,000 | 78 m² | £3,154/m² | 1 |
| 8, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2007 | £149,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Alamein AvenueTerraced | May 1997 | £27,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Alamein AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2015 | £145,000 | 84 m² | £1,726/m² | 3 |
| 18, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £225,000 | 100 m² | £2,250/m² | 2 |
| 24, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £285,000 | 80 m² | £3,563/m² | 1 |
| 26, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1995 | £44,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Mar 1997 | £39,500 | 81 m² | £488/m² | 1 |
| 34, Alamein AvenueTerraced | Jul 2026 | £290,000 | 77 m² | £3,766/m² | 7 |
| 44, Alamein AvenueTerraced | Aug 2004 | £132,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 54, Alamein AvenueTerraced | Feb 2020 | £202,500 | 80 m² | £2,531/m² | 1 |
| 58, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £146,000 | 102 m² | £1,431/m² | 2 |
| 64, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2005 | £128,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 72, Alamein AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2024 | £238,000 | 83 m² | £2,867/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bedford St Johns, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 176k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Alamein Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (route 3); 19 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 72 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is King's Oak Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 61% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bedford Academy, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 42.8 · 8.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bedford Free School (1.5 km) and Goldington Academy (2.3 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 600 m away, with H&D Local Store closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is London Road Health Centre (900 m), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Christopher's is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Bedford Hospital, 1.6 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 14 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Tesco Family Dining is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Sammy’s soul food the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 177 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 17 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 25% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Jubilee Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Bunyan Sports Centre (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 28 km away.
Most households own their home, 23% 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.
16 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.
Bedford constituency: Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,430 (23.2%), turnout 56%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 11%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
13 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 MK42 0DF →
On this street: 1 of 17 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 | 1.4% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.7% | 86.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 3.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 15.4% | 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.
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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.
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Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 72 min
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