Fox Road Bourn, South Cambridgeshire
41 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB23), about 170 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 35302000.
- Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £920,000 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, D: 5, E: 6, 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 C; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Shepreth, about 10.3 km (6.4 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 43 to 67 m above sea level.
- Noise: 36 of its 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bourn Surgery, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
- People: About 970 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 9 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | £920,000 | £920,000 | £920,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | £1,310,000 | £1,310,000 | £1,310,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | £872,500 | £545,000 | £1,200,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | £450,000 | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 2010 | 2 | £705,000 | £230,000 | £1,180,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | £1,175,000 | £1,175,000 | £1,175,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | £250,000 | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | £270,000 | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | £151,850 | £151,850 | £151,850 |
| 2000 | 2 | £147,000 | £124,000 | £170,000 |
| 1997 | 2 | £141,306 | £108,600 | £174,012 |
| 1995 | 1 | £60,000 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2025 | BRAMBLES, 1 CB23 2TU | Detached | £920,000 | |
| 27 May 2025 | THE COOP CB23 2TX | Other | £620,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 21 Aug 2023 | THE CRESCENT CB23 2TY | Detached | £1,310,000 | |
| 10 Nov 2017 | THE CRESCENT CB23 2TY | Detached | £1,200,000 | |
| 30 Jan 2017 | WHIPPLE TREE BARN CB23 2TY | Detached | £545,000 | |
| 18 Nov 2015 | THE CRESCENT CB23 2TY | Detached | £428,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 1 Apr 2015 | MEADOWCROFT CB23 2TY | Detached | £450,000 | |
| 30 Jul 2010 | FOX HOUSE CB23 2TX | Detached | £1,180,000 | |
| 30 Jun 2010 | 6 CB23 2TU | Semi-detached | £230,000 | |
| 1 Nov 2007 | FOX HOUSE CB23 2TX | Detached | £1,175,000 | |
| 20 Jan 2006 | EAST DOWNING CB23 2TY | Detached | £250,000 | |
| 9 Aug 2005 | STONE COTTAGE CB23 2TY | Semi-detached | £270,000 | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | STONE COTTAGE CB23 2TY | Semi-detached | £151,850 | |
| 10 Aug 2000 | 4 CB23 2TU | Semi-detached | £124,000 | |
| 17 Jul 2000 | 2 CB23 2TU | Semi-detached | £170,000 | |
| 9 May 1997 | VINE COTTAGE CB23 2TX | Detached | £174,012 | |
| 10 Apr 1997 | 2 CB23 2TU | Semi-detached | £108,600 | |
| 21 Dec 1995 | 6 CB23 2TU | Semi-detached | £60,000 |
Energy performance certificates
14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (4). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1996-2002 (2); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (social) (4).
Council tax
What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,691 | £1,973 | £2,254 | £2,536 | £3,100 | £3,663 | £4,227 | £5,073 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 1,160 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- 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: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
- Green belt: no.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.
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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| CB23 2TY | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| CB23 2TX | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
| CB23 2TU | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 48 addresses are between 43 m and 67 m above sea level (58 m on average); the ground rises about 24 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CB23 2TU | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| CB23 2TX | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| CB23 2TY | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Shepreth 110,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 10.3 km (6.4 miles) |
| Foxton 99,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 11 km (6.8 miles) | |
| Meldreth 246,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 11.7 km (7.3 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Short Street Bourn | 390 m |
| EV charging points | MFG Charging Station | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Stansted Airport STN | 39.3 km (24 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bourn Surgery | 700 m (0.4 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Jardines Pharmacy | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Colosseum Dental (Cambourne) | 3.3 km (2 miles) |
| Hospital | Nuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital | 12.7 km (7.9 miles) |
| Police station | Parkside Police Station | 13.2 km (8.2 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Papworth Everard, Ermine Street North | 4 km (2.5 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,980 m² | 620 m (0.4 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 1,100 m² | 810 m (0.5 miles) |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha | 760 m (0.5 miles) |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bourn Allotments 1,880 m² | 540 m (0.3 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.5 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Helen and St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 360 m north-west. 33 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Parish Church of St Helen and St Mary | Listed building, Grade I | 360 m north-west |
| A ringwork and bailey castle, and 17th century formal garden remains, at Bourn Hall | Scheduled monument | 370 m west |
| Bourn Hall | Listed building, Grade II* | 390 m west |
| Manor Farmhouse | Listed building, Grade II* | 620 m (0.4 miles) north |
| Bourn Hall | Registered park or garden, Grade II | 790 m (0.5 miles) west |
| Moulton Hills Roman barrows | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) north |
| Moated site at Moat House Farm | Scheduled monument | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east |
| Longstowe Hall | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 2 km (1.2 miles) west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| West Grove | Wood | 460 m (0.3 miles) south-west |
| The Rookery | Wood | 510 m (0.3 miles) south-west |
| Hall Plantation | Wood | 550 m (0.3 miles) west |
| Bourn Wood | Wood | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) west |
| Sirius Lake | Lake or reservoir | 3 km (1.9 miles) north |
| Claypit Hill | Hill | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.1 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.5 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 15 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 21 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 10 | 46 |
36 of the street's 46 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourn CofE Primary Academy Church of England | Primary | 4–11 | 700 m (0.4 miles) | Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambourne Grill at M J Rolls CB23 2TU | Mobile caterer | 30 m | 4 Good | 28 May 2025 |
| Bamboo Sky CB23 2SQ | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 390 m | 4 Good | 10 Feb 2026 |
| Little Hands Nursery CB23 2SG | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 410 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 12 Jun 2025 |
| J.J. Patel Post Office/Stores CB23 2SG | Retailers - other | 450 m (0.3 miles) | 4 Good | 17 Jul 2025 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 1 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1 |
| Other theft | 1 |
| Public order | 1 |
| Burglary | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Fox Road (5); On or near Fairway Close (4).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 40 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 25% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 16% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 68% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 30% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 5% | 1% |
| Social rented | 20% | 17% |
| Private rented | 5% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 66% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 20% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 43% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 48% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 3% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 6% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 24% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 12% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 51% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 10% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 95% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- CB23 2TY: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode
- CB23 2TX: 13 addresses of 20 in the postcode
- CB23 2TU: 10 addresses
Nearby streets
Gill's Hill · Fairway Close · Gills Hill · Gill's Hill
All the streets in CB23 and across South Cambridgeshire.
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.