Marsh Lane Ware, East Hertfordshire

106 addresses across 36 postcodes (SG11,SG12,SG9), about 620 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 12411200.

  • Flood: 4 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 East Hertfordshire costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ware (Herts), about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dolphin House Surgery, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 46% 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

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
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 2019LEASIDE TURNED PARTS LTD SG12 9QQOther£359,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Apr 2019UNIT B SG12 9QQOther£650,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Mar 2018VALLEY HOUSE SG12 9QPOther£1,200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Dec 2017UNIT 1 SG12 9QNOther£1,630,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 2014HERTFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED SG12 9QBOther£1,250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in East Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (39% of about 1,050 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 August 2026 to 2 September 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 42 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: 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
SG12 9QLzone 2 0 / 0 / 11 unlikely
SG12 9QBzone 2 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SG12 9QQzone 2 2 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SG12 9FYzone 2
SG12 9QFzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 9QNzone 2 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely
SG11 2BDzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 0FUzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 0NNzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4DLzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4DNzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4ETzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4FJzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4FWzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4FZzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4GDzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4GEzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4GQzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4GWzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4HGzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 4HTzone 2
SG12 4HYzone 2
SG12 4HZzone 2
SG12 4JDzone 2
SG12 4JFzone 2
SG12 4JGzone 2
SG12 4JJzone 2
SG12 4JNzone 2
SG12 4JPzone 2
SG12 9QPzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 9WHzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG12 9WRzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG9 0TPzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG9 0ZNzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG9 0ZUzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG9 9WYzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 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 111 addresses are between 31 m and 34 m above sea level (32 m on average).

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
SG12 9FY0%0%0%0%
SG12 9QB100%100%100%0%
SG12 9QF100%100%100%0%
SG12 9QL100%100%100%0%
SG12 9QN100%100%100%0%
SG12 9QP100%100%100%0%
SG12 9QQ100%100%100%0%
SG12 9WR100%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 stationsWare (Herts) 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
St Margarets (Herts) 351,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Hertford East 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gilpin Road Ware240 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Hertford3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ware Station Car Park530 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN19.8 km (12 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 Dolphin House Surgery830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots850 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 3 West Street1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalHertford County Hospital4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationHertford Police Station4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Esso Widbury Hill 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 gardenUnnamed 2.6 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,380 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 17 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha420 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Amwell House, Hertford Regional College, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 118 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Amwell House, Hertford Regional CollegeListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Scott's GrottoListed building, Grade I790 m (0.5 miles) west
Gardens to Former Amwell House Including Scott's Grotto and GazeboRegistered park or garden, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) west
Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell HouseListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) west
35 35A 37A (Part), High StreetListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Ware FriaryScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Amwell Grove and Amwell PoolRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Section of Ermine Street, N of Hertford Branch RailwayScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Bowl barrow near Gallows PlainScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tumbling BayLake or reservoir440 m (0.3 miles) north
Thrifts LakeLake or reservoir460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Peters' WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) west
Post WoodWood610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Brokengall HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Hag's DellValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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
70 to 7420
65 to 6910
60 to 64136
55 to 59612
Under 5510163

10 of the street's 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 48 from railways, 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 East Hertfordshire: see them on the East Hertfordshire 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
Presdales SchoolSecondary11–18640 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hertford Regional College16 plus16–99750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Christ Church CofE (VA) Primary School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Priors Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 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
St Catherine's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Kingshill Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Voluntary Controlled Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Chauncy SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Inflata City SG12 9QQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good20 Mar 2024
Premier Inn & Beefeater SG12 9QBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good9 May 2024
The Music Café UK SG12 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good4 Nov 2024
Riverside Nursery School SG12 9NHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good27 Mar 2015
Community Kitchen Co. SG12 9NTRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Tea On The Lea SG12 7AWMobile caterer450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Mar 2024
Riverside Place Care Home SG12 7FBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Drugs2
Other theft2
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Marsh Lane (8); On or near Peerglow Centre (1).

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: 550 residents in 257 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 age3940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Stephenson Court · London Road · Gilpin Mews · Post Wood Road · Gilpin Road · Grange Gardens · Coddington Close · Red House Close · Viaduct Road · Crane Mead

All the streets in SG11, SG12, SG9 and across East Hertfordshire.

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.