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Borough Green, Wrotham & Shipbourne
What it's like at TN15 8FH: every home that has sold on the street 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.
Nothing recorded on this street or nearby yet.
Sales and extensions on the street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
No sales recorded at this postcode since 1995.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 45% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Borough Green & Wrotham, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 438k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Flour Mill, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes W4, 570, 221, W3); 1 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
Central London is 39 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Platt Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 44% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Ightham Primary School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Wrotham School, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 39.5 · 2.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: The Judd School (11.2 km) and Tonbridge Grammar School (11.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Stores, 1.1 km away, with Cantium Gin closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Borough Green Medical Practice (1.3 km), with Borough Green Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, The Village Barbers is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Maidstone Hospital, 13 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 14 restaurants and cafés, 16 pubs and bars.
Southern State Grill is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and The Blue Anchor Pub the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 262 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 30 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 37 km.
4 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.
Tonbridge constituency: Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 11,166 (22.2%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Conservative 41%, Labour 19%, Green Party 15%, Reform UK 15%.
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 TN15 8FH →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
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.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.7% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 76.2% | 89.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 13.9% | 3.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 5.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.2% | 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.
Nearest: Minster Leas · about 37 min
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