Mitre Lane Boston

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (PE21), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3631154.

  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, D: 12).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Boston costs £2,309 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 60% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Boston, about 540 m (0.3 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 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Greyfriars Surgery, about 320 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 815 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m². Most common: Flat (13); Maisonette, semi-detached (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (9); 1900-1929 (5); 2008 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Boston in 2026-27: Band D £2,309 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,539£1,796£2,052£2,309£2,822£3,335£3,848£4,617

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (73% of about 1,200 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, Boston (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 9.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footpath (standard works)

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, 0 at medium risk and 30 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 15 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 15 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: 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
PE21 6EUzone 2 0 / 0 / 26 unlikely
PE21 6AJzone 2 0 / 0 / 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 48 addresses are between 5 m and 6 m above sea level (5 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
PE21 6AJ100%100%100%0%
PE21 6EU100%60%60%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 stationsBoston 267,000 journeys in 2024–25540 m (0.3 miles)
Hubberts Bridge 760 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Swineshead 1,230 journeys in 2024–2511.1 km (6.9 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fish Hill Boston60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boston390 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP Boston Market Place230 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY70 km (44 miles)
Nearest large airportEast Midlands Airport EMA89.3 km (55 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greyfriars Surgery320 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots40 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pump Square (Dental Surgery)90 m
HospitalPilgrim Hospital (Nuh)1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationBoston Police Station240 m
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 27-28 Market Place Halifax80 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,330 m²290 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Park 4.5 ha270 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m south-west. 242 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*100 m south-west
The Assembly RoomsListed building, Grade II*110 m south-west
Shodfriars HallListed building, Grade II*110 m south
Freemasons' HallListed building, Grade II*130 m east
Hussey TowerScheduled monument540 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Moated site 480m north east of Wyberton West HospitalScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Boston CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grange WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Pioneer WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Beech WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Jenny's WoodWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Kingfisher LakeLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Hawk LakeLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south-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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
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 5930
Under 554548

3 of the street's 48 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 Boston: see them on the Boston 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
Boston Pioneers Free School AcademyPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Boston Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carlton Road AcademyPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Boston College16 plus16–99760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Tower Road AcademyPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Boston Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Staniland AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Haven High AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Park AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas CE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boston High SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 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
H & R Bakery PE21 6EUOther catering premises10 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Dough Express Pizza PE21 6EUTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Bycrofts of Boston PE21 6EURetailers - other20 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Crumbs PE21 6EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good24 Jan 2025
Delfino PE21 6EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Boots UK Ltd PE21 6EHRetailers - other30 m5 Very good8 Oct 2019
H Dawson & Sons PE21 6EHRetailers - other30 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Poundland PE21 6EHRetailers - other30 m5 Very good18 Oct 2021
Scala PE21 6EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
The Coffee Junkies PE21 6EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good9 Oct 2024
Fruit and Bloom PE21 6EURetailers - other60 m5 Very good21 Jun 2021
Chompp Ltd PE21 6RATakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Market Snack Bar Mobile caterer70 m5 Very good13 Nov 2024
Alford Fish Sales Retailers - other70 m5 Very good6 Oct 2021
Maudes Online PE21 6EQRetailers - other90 m5 Very good4 Aug 2021

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.

815 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences256
Anti-social behaviour156
Shoplifting154
Public order67
Other theft38
Criminal damage and arson34
Drugs30
Burglary21
Robbery20
Bicycle theft15
Other crime9
Possession of weapons9
Vehicle crime5
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petticoat Lane (172); On or near Church Lane (164); On or near Parking Area (79); On or near Police Station (76); On or near Shopping Area (72).

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: 394 residents in 198 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 age3140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented82%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)5%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle28%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)44%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all22%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Cornhill Lane · Still Lane · Grants Lane · Market Place · Petticoat Lane · Pump Square · Sibsey Lane · Church Street · Angel Court · St Botolphs Mews · Albion Terrace · Mitre Lane

All the streets in PE21 and across Boston.

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.