Cornmill Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (EN9), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 13800343.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £352,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 70% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Waltham Cross, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbey Gardens, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Market Square Surgery, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 281 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£352,000£352,000£352,000
20211£350,000£350,000£350,000
20181£305,000£305,000£305,000
20151£275,000£275,000£275,000
20141£120,000£120,000£120,000
20071£199,995£199,995£199,995
20061£166,000£166,000£166,000
20021£145,000£145,000£145,000
20011£59,000£59,000£59,000
20001£103,500£103,500£103,500
19991£96,000£96,000£96,000
19981£85,500£85,500£85,500
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Aug 202310 EN9 1RBTerraced£352,000
18 Jun 202112 EN9 1RBTerraced£350,000
19 Oct 201810 EN9 1RBTerraced£305,000
17 Jul 201512 EN9 1RBTerraced£275,000
30 May 2014FLAT 3, STREAM LODGE EN9 1RBFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 200711 EN9 1RBTerraced£199,995
10 Aug 200610 EN9 1RBTerraced£166,000
22 Nov 200211 EN9 1RBTerraced£145,000
6 Apr 2001FLAT 3, STREAM LODGE EN9 1RBFlat or maisonette£59,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 20009 EN9 1RBTerraced£103,500
15 Oct 199910 EN9 1RBTerraced£96,000
16 Jun 199812 EN9 1RBSemi-detached£85,500
19 Nov 199611 EN9 1RBTerraced£68,000
28 Jun 1996FLAT 1, STREAM LODGE EN9 1RBFlat or maisonette£32,000Leasehold.
12 Jun 1995FLAT 1, STREAM LODGE EN9 1RBFlat or maisonette£29,000Leasehold.
26 May 1995FLAT 3, STREAM LODGE EN9 1RBFlat or maisonette£30,500Leasehold.
7 Apr 199512 EN9 1RBSemi-detached£70,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Flat (3); House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (3); 1991-1995 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Epping Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,277 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,518£1,771£2,024£2,277£2,783£3,289£3,795£4,554

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 1,210 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Waltham Abbey (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 17 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 13 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EN9 1RBzone 2 0 / 1 / 5 unlikely
EN9 1RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 19 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
EN9 1RB100%70%70%0%
EN9 1RH100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWaltham Cross 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Theobalds Grove 751,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Cheshunt 2.5 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Market Square Waltham Abbey80 m
Bus or coach stationTesco Drop Off Point Waltham Abbey610 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BizSpace M25 Waltham Abbey Car Park570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY20.6 km (13 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN27.6 km (17 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Market Square Surgery500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Reliance Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Market Square Dental Surgery160 m
HospitalCheshunt Community Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationCheshunt Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food  Waltham Abbey Cashzone230 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Gardens 9.0 ha190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lee Valley Country Park 992 ha390 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²350 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 16 ha300 m
AllotmentsCapershotts Allotments 6,820 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1,001 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 31, Highbridge Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 80 m north-west. 70 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
31, Highbridge StreetListed building, Grade II*80 m north-west
Waltham Abbey VicarageListed building, Grade II*130 m north-east
Church of the Holy Cross and St Lawrence Ruins to East of Church of Holy Cross and St LawrenceListed building, Grade I130 m north-east
1, Sun StreetListed building, Grade II*170 m east
Waltham Abbey, including gatehouse and Stoney BridgeScheduled monument300 m north-east
Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder FactoryScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Eleanor Cross, Waltham CrossScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waltham MarshWetland830 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Cheshunt MarshWetland1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Rammey Marsh Flood Relief ChannelLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Lee ValleyValley1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Hooks MarshWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Hayes HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5940
Under 551115

4 of the street's 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Epping Forest: see them on the Epping Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Waltham Holy Cross Primary AcademyPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holdbrook Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Harold Business & Enterprise AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Wx) Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Leverton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Four Swannes Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Hillhouse CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Oasis Academy EnfieldSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Keys Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Naira Indian & Bangladeshi Cuisine EN9 1RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m1 Major improvement necessary18 May 2026
Willow Court EN9 1DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m4 Good27 Jan 2025
Bites EN9 1BZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Shuhag EN9 1DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
The Crown Waltham Abbey Ltd EN9 1QZPub/bar/nightclub90 m4 Good22 Jul 2025
Lemonz Ltd Hings Take Away EN9 1BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
Jays Convenience Store EN9 1BSRetailers - other120 m5 Very good9 Sep 2024
Chilli Pickle EN9 1BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good5 Mar 2024
The Magic Wok EN9 1DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Abbey cafe EN9 1DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good4 Mar 2025
The Maze Restobar EN9 1DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Starfish EN9 1DSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Market Kebab EN9 1DSTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Abbey Local Stores EN9 1DGRetailers - other160 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Abbey's Local (Premier) EN9 1DSRetailers - other160 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

281 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences84
Anti-social behaviour51
Criminal damage and arson29
Public order26
Drugs24
Other theft18
Vehicle crime17
Shoplifting17
Robbery4
Burglary3
Possession of weapons3
Other crime3
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (55); On or near Romeland (45); On or near Silver Street (32); On or near Barge Yard (27); On or near Church Street (21).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 732 residents in 373 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Church Street · Leverton Way · Greenyard · North Place · Plantaganet Place · Paradise Road · Plantaganet Place · Silver Street · Abbey Court · Highbridge Street · Leverton Way · Grange Court

All the streets in EN9 and across Epping Forest.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.