Ferry Lane Cambridge

33 addresses across 4 postcodes (CB4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5400705.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2015 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 7, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are 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 C; Band D in Cambridge costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge North, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stourbridge Common, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Nuffield Road Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 920 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 178 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
20151£600,000£600,000£600,000
20142£220,000£220,000£220,000
20051£365,000£365,000£365,000
20043£145,000£145,000£350,000
20001£78,000£78,000£78,000
19981£59,950£59,950£59,950
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Aug 201928 CB4 1NTOther£2,200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 20153 CB4 1NTDetached£600,000
2 Jun 20141 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£220,000
2 Jun 20141 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£220,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 20053 CB4 1NTDetached£365,000
1 Sep 200410 CB4 1NTDetached£350,000
16 Jul 20041 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 20041 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£145,000
9 Aug 20001 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 19981 CB4 1NTFlat or maisonette£59,950Leasehold.

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 November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (14); House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (15); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 1,420 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Ferry Lane (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 8 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 44 homes the Environment Agency counts, 4 are in areas at high risk, 5 medium, 4 low and 0 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB4 1NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CB4 1NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB4 1NRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CB4 1PQnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 4 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 7 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
CB4 1NR100%100%100%0%
CB4 1NT100%100%100%0%
CB4 1NU100%100%100%0%
CB4 1PQ100%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 stationsCambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Waterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thrift's Walk Chesterton80 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksCambridge North Station Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN37.6 km (23 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nuffield Road Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milton Road Pharmacy800 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cheddars Lane Dental Surgery660 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBrookfields Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Cambridge Cashzone700 m (0.4 miles)

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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stourbridge Common 18 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Coldham's Common 46 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²170 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chesterton Recreation Ground 2.4 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.8 ha610 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 71 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chesterton Abbey, a scheduled monument, 320 m west. 27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chesterton AbbeyScheduled monument320 m west
Chesterton TowerListed building, Grade I320 m west
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Cambridge Museum Of Technology (formerly Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station)Scheduled monument590 m (0.4 miles) south
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Stourbridge ChapelListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Christ's CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long ReachLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) east
Chesterton FenWetland2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Castle HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Todd's PitLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
The GroveWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Giants GraveValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-east

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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 5960
Under 552733

6 of the street's 33 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 Cambridge: see them on the Cambridge 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
Chesterton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Shirley Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milton Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
North Cambridge AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Brunswick Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colleges Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Galfrid SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Fields Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chesterton Community CollegeSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Arbury Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Bite street india Ltd CB4 1NSTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Aug 2025
Chesterton Mens Club CB4 1NSPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good7 Nov 2023
Tesco CB4 1NXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets40 m5 Very good29 Jun 2022
Cheryls News CB4 1NXRetailers - other60 mExempt
Green Dragon Public House CB4 1NZPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good21 Sep 2023
Shawarma LTD ( Lebanese modern street food) CB4 1NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m2 Improvement necessary13 Feb 2026
Rayyan supermarket CB4 1NWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
The Mermaid CB4 1RJTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m4 Good14 Jun 2025
CB4 Café CB4 1QQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good16 Mar 2026
Cambridge City Foodbank CB4 1RWRetailers - other280 m5 Very good3 Sep 2019
Clarence House Day Nurseries Ltd CB4 1RWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good5 May 2022
Small Fry Takeaway CB4 1NJTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Dec 2024
5 Chapel Street B&B CB4 1DYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house280 m5 Very good18 Oct 2023
Shan's Green End Convenience Store CB4 1RNRetailers - other310 m5 Very good29 Nov 2020
banana leaf sweet and savoury CB4 1RNTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good24 Jan 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.

178 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences59
Anti-social behaviour58
Vehicle crime9
Public order9
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson7
Burglary6
Robbery6
Other crime6
Shoplifting4
Bicycle theft3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ferry Lane (66); On or near Jolley Ford Court (28); On or near Primary Court (21); On or near Water Street (15); On or near Dalton Square (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 922 residents in 440 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 age3640
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)53%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)68%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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.

  • CB4 1NT: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • CB4 1NU: 13 addresses
  • CB4 1NR: 1 address of 26 in the postcode
  • CB4 1PQ: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Midhurst Close · Thrifts Walk · Primary Court · Grayling Close · Swallow Gardens · Wilding Walk · Scotland Close · Water Lane · Camside · Martin's Stile Lane · High Street · Dalton Square

All the streets in CB4 and across Cambridge.

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.