Mowbray Road Cambridge

1 address across 1 postcode (CB1), about 30 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 5400056.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £567,500 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 38 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 D; 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 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queen Edith Medical Practice, about 110 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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
20211£567,500£567,500£567,500
20191£780,000£780,000£780,000
20166£295,000£266,750£510,000
20121£355,000£355,000£355,000
20111£390,000£390,000£390,000
20092£242,500£220,000£265,000
20081£280,000£280,000£280,000
20071£279,000£279,000£279,000
20061£269,950£269,950£269,950
20052£235,500£206,000£265,000
20031£158,000£158,000£158,000
20021£244,500£244,500£244,500
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jul 202467 CB1 7SRTerraced£482,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 202153 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£567,500
27 Aug 201949 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£555,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 201973A CB1 7SRDetached£780,000
25 Nov 2016FLAT 5, 23 CB1 7SRFlat or maisonette£300,000Leasehold.
9 Sep 2016FLAT 1, 23 CB1 7SRFlat or maisonette£340,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Sep 2016FLAT 2, 23 CB1 7SRFlat or maisonette£270,000Leasehold.
26 Aug 2016FLAT 4, 23 CB1 7SRFlat or maisonette£266,750Leasehold.
12 Aug 2016FLAT 3, 23 CB1 7SRFlat or maisonette£290,000Leasehold.
4 Jul 201673A CB1 7SRDetached£510,000
27 Jun 201619 CB1 7SRTerraced£375,000
6 Jan 201633 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£440,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 201547 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£422,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 May 201423 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£360,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Oct 201259 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£355,000
2 Mar 201149 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£390,000
25 Sep 200931 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£265,000
15 Jun 200927 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£220,000
28 Aug 200821 CB1 7SRTerraced£280,000
10 Aug 20071 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£279,000
25 Sep 200663 CB1 7SRTerraced£269,950
1 Aug 200559 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£265,000
1 Jul 200517 CB1 7SRTerraced£206,000
31 Mar 200341 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£158,000
25 Nov 200259 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£244,500
14 Sep 200163 CB1 7SRTerraced£168,000
3 Apr 200039 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£132,000
22 Feb 200035 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£132,000
11 Feb 19995 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£280,000
26 Feb 199863 CB1 7SRTerraced£100,000
20 Feb 199865 CB1 7SRTerraced£93,500
23 Jan 199853 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£92,000
28 May 199725 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£77,500
12 May 199717 CB1 7SRTerraced£80,000
29 Nov 199673A CB1 7SRDetached£85,000
22 Aug 199657 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£65,000
24 Feb 19955 CB1 7SRSemi-detached£145,000

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 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 D (28% of about 780 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

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, 35 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 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 address is 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 7SR100%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 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Holbrook Road Cambridge60 m
Bus or coach stationHospital Bus Station Addenbrookes610 m (0.4 miles)
Car parksNCP850 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station900 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN33.4 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 Queen Edith Medical Practice110 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Polaris Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Devonshire House Dental Practice340 m
HospitalAddenbrookes Hospital890 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesCompass Group - Addenbrookes Convenience Store, Unit 3, The Retail Concourse, Hills Road Cashzone830 m (0.5 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 2,020 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Holbrook Road Play Area 2,660 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha280 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glebe Road Allotments 1.6 ha200 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Botanic Garden, Cambridge, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west. 2 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*2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Longroad PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Limekiln CloseWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Giants GraveValley1.6 km (1 mile) east
Missleton HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Mill PitLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Riddy IslandIsland4.9 km (3.1 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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
65 to 6910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 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), 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
Homerton Early Years CentreNursery2–5200 m 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
Queen Edith Primary SchoolPrimary4–11340 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Queen Emma Primary SchoolPrimary4–11950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologySecondary13–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Long Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hills Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ridgefield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Bede's Inter-Church School Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Spinney Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 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

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
Spencers Supermarket CB1 8QJRetailers - other140 m4 Good4 Dec 2025
M & H General Stores CB1 8QJRetailers - other140 m5 Very good13 Mar 2021
Khang's Fish Shop CB1 8QJTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
The Coffee House CB1 8QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Polaris Pharmacy CB1 8RERetailers - other220 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
Express convenience store CB1 8RERetailers - other220 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
Queen Edith Public House CB1 8QNPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good29 Mar 2023
Monty's Catering @ Queen Ediths PH CB1 8QNPub/bar/nightclub230 m4 Good6 Mar 2025
Perhaps CB1 8QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Dunstan Court CB1 8QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good27 Oct 2025
Sarah's Cake Creations CB1 7TFOther catering premises280 m5 Very good20 Feb 2017
Lodestone House CB1 7TDSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour7
Burglary6
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Other theft2
Shoplifting2
Vehicle crime1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Queen Emma Place (46).

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: 498 residents in 230 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 age4140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented53%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle35%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%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)41%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • CB1 7SR: 1 address of 52 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cherry Hinton Road · Wulfstan Way · Edeva Court · Mowbray Road · Fendon Road · Glebe Close · Holbrook Road · Maners Way · Kinnaird Way · Edendale Close · Templemore Close

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.