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On Mill Lane, in Brockenhurst & Sway
What it's like at SO41 8LN: every home that has sold on Mill 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.
Sales and extensions on Mill Lane; 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.
| Casa Bruna, Mill LaneDetached | Aug 1997 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Holme, Mill LaneDetached | May 2017 | £378,000 | 60 m² | £6,300/m² | 2 |
| Holly Oaks, Mill LaneOther | Jul 2017 | £565,000 | 151 m² | £3,742/m² | 1 |
| Meadow Way, Mill LaneDetached | Oct 2006 | £300,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Norlands, Mill LaneDetached | Jul 2002 | £395,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Willowcroft, Mill LaneDetached | Nov 2009 | £475,000 | 144 m² | £3,299/m² | 1 |
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: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Sway, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 81k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Southampton Central.
The nearest bus stop is North Common Lane, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 120, 82, 777); 1 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 47 minutes away by public transport (34 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School - the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km); 93% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Priestlands School, 3.0 km away; Attainment 8: 48.8 · 16.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is the Co-Op Sway, 2.0 km away, with the Wharie Experience closer still (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wistaria & Milford Surgeries (3.0 km), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.0 km).
For a haircut, L'Anza Europe is 2.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 17 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 65% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% 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: 20 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
the Forest Cafe Sway is the closest café or restaurant (2.3 km), and the New Wheel Inn the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 75 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 65% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Pennington Common, 2.4 km away; for exercise, Lymington Health and Leisure Centre (3.1 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Milford-on-sea, 8.6 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
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.
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%.
4 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 SO41 8LN →
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.2 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bournemouth is 18 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 102 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 55% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 34% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 45% 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.
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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.
On this street: 0 of 7 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 | 2.9% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.8% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 86.6% | 86.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 4.9% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.2% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.