Godwin Close Cambridge

41 addresses across 1 postcode (CB1), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5400018.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £620,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 17, E: 1).
  • Flood: 36 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, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 41 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cornford House Surgery, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 67 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
20251£620,000£620,000£620,000
20221£365,000£365,000£365,000
20212£345,500£312,500£378,500
20201£357,500£357,500£357,500
20191£355,000£355,000£355,000
20152£341,250£335,000£347,500
20143£320,000£295,000£350,000
20112£187,000£124,000£250,000
20071£210,000£210,000£210,000
20063£197,000£190,000£265,000
20041£202,000£202,000£202,000
20021£110,000£110,000£110,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Nov 202523 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£620,000
29 Mar 202227 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£365,000
30 Apr 202135 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£378,500
1 Feb 202110 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£312,500
6 Nov 202036 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£357,500
22 Feb 201934 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£355,000
9 Oct 201515 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£347,500
24 Apr 201524 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£335,000
8 Oct 20142A CB1 8QSDetached£295,000
19 Sep 20141 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£350,000
8 Apr 201429 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£320,000
26 Aug 201129 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£250,000
19 Apr 20112A CB1 8QSDetached£124,000
24 Aug 200723 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£210,000
22 Dec 200629 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£190,000
13 Oct 200622 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£265,000
26 Jun 20061 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£197,000
24 Sep 200417 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£202,000
18 Jul 200217 CB1 8QSSemi-detached£110,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (24); Bungalow, detached (1); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1930-1949 (8); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (12); owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (2).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (62% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 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: 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 28 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 9 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
CB1 8QS100%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 11 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gunhild Court Cambridge180 m
Bus or coach stationHospital Bus Station Addenbrookes1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksNCP1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN33.6 km (21 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cornford House Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Polaris Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Gables Dental Practice440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalAddenbrookes Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Orchard Cashzone510 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 13 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Baldock Way Allotments 1.5 ha290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Botanic Garden, Cambridge, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Botanic Garden, CambridgeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limekiln CloseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Giants GraveValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Missleton HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Longroad PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
BeechwoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Mill PitLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west

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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5910
Under 554041

1 of the street's 41 addresses is 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), 1 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
Queen Edith Primary SchoolPrimary4–11150 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Emma Primary SchoolPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Homerton Early Years CentreNursery2–5590 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary11–18700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Bede's Inter-Church School Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ridgefield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Spinney Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologySecondary13–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hills Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Colville Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Dunstan Court CB1 8QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good27 Oct 2025
Express convenience store CB1 8RERetailers - other250 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
Polaris Pharmacy CB1 8RERetailers - other260 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
The Coffee House CB1 8QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
M & H General Stores CB1 8QJRetailers - other290 m5 Very good13 Mar 2021
Khang's Fish Shop CB1 8QJTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
Queen Edith Public House CB1 8QNPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good29 Mar 2023
Monty's Catering @ Queen Ediths PH CB1 8QNPub/bar/nightclub290 m4 Good6 Mar 2025
Perhaps CB1 8QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Spencers Supermarket CB1 8QJRetailers - other300 m4 Good4 Dec 2025
Sarah's Cake Creations CB1 7TFOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Feb 2017
Cherry Hinton Care Home CB1 8DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Mar 2025
MRH Retail Orchard CB1 8EARetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2024

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.

67 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour14
Criminal damage and arson8
Vehicle crime5
Public order5
Other theft3
Drugs2
Other crime2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gunhild Court (24); On or near Godwin Close (22); On or near Wulfstan Way (10); On or near Hulatt Road (4); On or near Gunhild Close (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 357 residents in 128 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 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented42%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle32%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%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)36%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Gunhild Court · Gunhild Close · Mowbray Road · Hulatt Road · Godwin Way · Edeva Court · Missleton Court · Wulfstan Way · Spalding Way · Mander Way · Bullen Close · Cherry Hinton Road

All the streets in CB1 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.