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On Grange Lane, in Bromham & Biddenham
What it's like at MK43 8NR: every home that has sold on Grange Lane 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Grange Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 48 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 9, Grange LaneDetached | Oct 2025 | £530,000 | 107 m² | £4,953/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11, Grange LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2010 | £275,000 | 115 m² | £2,391/m² | 4 |
| 12, Grange LaneDetached | Jul 2019 | £488,000 | 125 m² | £3,904/m² | 1 |
| 14, Grange LaneDetached | Apr 2014 | £292,500 | 115 m² | £2,543/m² | 2 |
| 16a, Grange LaneDetached · company-owned | Jul 2022 | £425,000 | 70 m² | £6,071/m² | 1 |
| 19, Grange LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £475,000 | 178 m² | £2,669/m² | 1 |
| 21, Grange LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2023 | £455,000 | 118 m² | £3,856/m² | 2 |
| 25, Grange LaneDetached | Mar 2020 | £335,500 | 83 m² | £4,042/m² | 2 |
| 27, Grange LaneDetached | Dec 2021 | £675,000 | 153 m² | £4,412/m² | 1 |
| 28, Grange LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £420,000 | 89 m² | £4,719/m² | 2 |
| 31, Grange LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2008 | £225,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Grange LaneDetached | Dec 2000 | £175,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 37, Grange LaneDetached | Oct 2015 | £625,000 | 214 m² | £2,921/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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bedford, a drive away (3.8 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 Bromham CofE Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 74% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Great Denham Primary School (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is Lincroft Academy, 2.2 km away; Attainment 8: 45 · 5.4% 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 Budgens, 2.5 km away, with One Stop closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bromham Surgery (400 m), with Bromham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Only You is 1.8 km 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.
Tasty House is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Swan Inn the nearest pub (550 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 Bromham Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Elizabeth Curtis riding school for the disabled (1.0 km).
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.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
24 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%.
9 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 MK43 8NR →
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: 1 of 33 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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.
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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 48 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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.