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On Boakes Place, in Ashurst & Cadnam
What it's like at SO40 7FF: every home that has sold on Boakes Place 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.
Sales and extensions on Boakes Place; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 25 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Boakes PlaceFlat | Feb 2026 | £255,000 | 67 m² | £3,806/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Boakes PlaceFlat | Jan 2016 | £226,000 | 71 m² | £3,183/m² | 1 |
| 3, Boakes PlaceFlat | Oct 2000 | £138,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Boakes PlaceFlat | Dec 2022 | £312,000 | 84 m² | £3,714/m² | 3 |
| 5, Boakes PlaceFlat | Feb 1995 | £59,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Boakes PlaceFlat | Jan 2018 | £225,000 | 70 m² | £3,214/m² | 1 |
| 7, Boakes PlaceFlat | Dec 2020 | £350,000 | 100 m² | £3,500/m² | 2 |
| 8, Boakes PlaceFlat | Jun 2021 | £260,000 | 99 m² | £2,626/m² | 1 |
| 9, Boakes PlaceFlat | Nov 2017 | £253,000 | 70 m² | £3,614/m² | 3 |
| 10, Boakes PlaceFlat | May 2015 | £234,950 | 60 m² | £3,916/m² | 3 |
| 11, Boakes PlaceFlat | Mar 2025 | £272,000 | 102 m² | £2,667/m² | 1 |
| 12, Boakes PlaceFlat | Aug 2024 | £265,000 | 92 m² | £2,880/m² | 1 |
| 14, Boakes PlaceFlat | Sept 2008 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Boakes PlaceFlat | Apr 2011 | £177,500 | 66 m² | £2,689/m² | 1 |
| 16, Boakes PlaceFlat | Jul 1997 | £114,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Boakes PlaceFlat | Sept 2023 | £281,000 | 112 m² | £2,509/m² | 1 |
| 19, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £375,000 | 89 m² | £4,213/m² | 3 |
| 21, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | May 1998 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Apr 2003 | £189,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 23, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £348,000 | 72 m² | £4,833/m² | 2 |
| 24, Boakes PlaceDetached | Dec 2012 | £350,000 | 116 m² | £3,017/m² | 3 |
| 26, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £370,000 | 69 m² | £5,362/m² | 1 |
| 27, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £405,000 | 101 m² | £4,010/m² | 5 |
| 28, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £490,000 | 89 m² | £5,506/m² | 4 |
| Oak Ridge, 25, Boakes PlaceSemi-detached | May 2024 | £460,000 | 93 m² | £4,946/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Ashurst New Forest, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 108k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is The Forest Inn, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 617, C5, 616); 6 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 55 minutes away by public transport (20 by car).
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Foxhills Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (900 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Hazel Wood Infant School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Hounsdown School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 46.1 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express Supermarket, 2.3 km away, with Welcome Ashurst closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is New Horizons Medical Partnership (2.3 km), with Ar Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.3 km).
For a haircut, Beautiful Hair is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Southampton General Hospital, 7.6 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 5 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Asha is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Forest Inn the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 22 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 74% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 33% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Ashurst Recreation Ground, 450 m away; for exercise, Houndsdown School Swimming Pool (2.0 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Southampton is 13 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 98 km.
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.
New Forest East constituency: Sir Julian Lewis MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 8,495 (18.8%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 39%, Labour 20%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 16%.
2 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 SO40 7FF →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 56% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 33% are 65 or over.
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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in New Forest 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 25 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 15 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 | 1.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.3% | 86.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.0% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.3% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.6% | 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.