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On The Meadows, in Biddenden, Smarden & High Halden
What it's like at TN27 8AW: every home that has sold on The Meadows 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.
Sales and extensions on The Meadows; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 22, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £340,000 | 80 m² | £4,250/m² | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Oct 1998 | £71,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £218,000 | 78 m² | £2,795/m² | 1 |
| 26, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Feb 2025 | £268,000 | 78 m² | £3,436/m² | 1 |
| 28, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Apr 2014 | £200,000 | 59 m² | £3,390/m² | 2 |
| 31, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £350,000 | 84 m² | £4,167/m² | 3 |
| 35, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Nov 2014 | £220,000 | 82 m² | £2,683/m² | 1 |
| 37, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £210,000 | 97 m² | £2,165/m² | 3 |
| 38, The MeadowsSemi-detached | Sept 2015 | £233,000 | 80 m² | £2,913/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Headcorn, a drive away (5.4 km), with 578k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is The Weavers, 350 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (route 12); 4 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 62 minutes away by public transport (27 by car).
Central London is 70 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is John Mayne Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 27% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, 5.9 km away; Attainment 8: 39.7 · 3.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Cranbrook School (9.7 km) and Highworth Grammar School (13.9 km).
The weekly shop is an easy trip: a food store is about 11 minutes away without a car.
The GP surgery is around 41 minutes on foot or by bus.
The nearest full A&E is William Harvey Hospital, 17 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 55% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 16 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
The West House Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Red Lion the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 295 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 50% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 256 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Biddenden Village Green, 350 m away.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 50 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 60 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
13 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Mansion House | II | 200 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Weald of Kent constituency: Katie Lam MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 8,422 (16.6%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 23%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 9%.
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 TN27 8AW →
It's an older community: 27% 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.
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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 15 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Faversham Swimming Pools · about 33 min
Nearest: Port Lympne Wild Animal Park · about 31 min
Nearest: Gallagher Stadium · 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.
On this street: 0 of 13 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 | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.4% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 60.2% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 29.2% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.6% | 7.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.8% | 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.