St Catherine's Ely, East Cambridgeshire

41 addresses across 1 postcode (CB6), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12000570.

18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 6, D: 9, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in East Cambridgeshire costs £2,485 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Ely, about 1.4 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 290 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 17 to 20 m above sea level. 2 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is St Mary's Surgery, about 370 m away. About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 61 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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 103 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1976-1982 (5); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,485 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,657£1,933£2,209£2,485£3,037£3,590£4,142£4,970

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (40% of about 1,020 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 1.0 km

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 41 addresses are between 17 m and 20 m above sea level (19 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
CB6 1AP100%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 stationsEly 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Littleport 252,000 journeys in 2024–257.9 km
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 49 within 800 m; nearest Chiefs Street Ely120 m
Car parksForehill Car Park880 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest Barton Road Car Park540 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN57.5 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest St Mary's Surgery370 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest St Mary's Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Enhance Dental350 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital1.8 km
Police stationEly Police Station520 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Watford - Carpenders Park, Carpenders Park470 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 garden9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,620 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 9.2 ha620 m
Play area8 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 80 m²390 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,370 m²590 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Upherds Lane Allotments 5,190 m²120 m

Within 800 m: 9 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Infirmary hall to the north of St John's Farmhouse (formerly Barn to the north of St John's Farmhouse), a listed building (Grade I), 340 m south. 156 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 25 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Infirmary hall to the north of St John's Farmhouse (formerly Barn to the north of St John's Farmhouse)Listed building, Grade I340 m south
St John's FarmhouseListed building, Grade I360 m south
Dove house to St John's FarmListed building, Grade I370 m south
Oliver Cromwell's HouseListed building, Grade II*370 m south-east
Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene, St John's FarmScheduled monument410 m south
Ely Cathedral: claustral buildingsScheduled monument610 m south-east
'Cherry Hill', castle moundScheduled monument830 m south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roswell PitsLake or reservoir1.9 km east
Redmoor PlantationWood3.5 km north-east
Quanea HillHill3.8 km east
Thorney HillHill4.2 km east
The RookeryWood4.3 km south-east
Brick HillHill4.4 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 553941

2 of the street's 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Ely CollegeSecondary11–18570 m No published inspection
Lantern Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m No published inspection
Ely St John's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.0 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Isle of Ely Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No published inspection
Spring Meadow Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.5 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ely St Mary's CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.6 km Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lavender House Community Hub CB6 1ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good23 Feb 2024
Harlequin By Busy Bees At Ely CB6 1BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
New Dragon Inn CB6 1AGTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Aug 2026
West End House CB6 3AYPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good9 Aug 2018
Vera James House CB6 1TAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m4 Good9 Jun 2026
The Bake Shop - General Store CB7 4ESRetailers - other330 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jul 2026
Co-op CB7 4EYRetailers - other330 m5 Very good19 Oct 2026
Domino's Pizza CB7 4EYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Poets House CB7 4EYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house330 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Eat Thai Restaurant CB7 4ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m4 Good3 Nov 2025
The Kings Arms CB7 4ESPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Steves Shack CB7 4ESRetailers - other370 mExempt
Acremont House School CB6 1AESchool/college/university370 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Out Of School Club CB6 1BDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good16 Nov 2021
The Old Fire Engine House CB7 4ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory11 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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order5
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Other theft3
Burglary1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bakers Corner (15); On or near Priests Meadow Court (12); On or near West Fen Road (11); On or near Hills Lane (8); On or near Saxon Close (7).

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: 244 residents in 137 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 age5540
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over40%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Co-op (retailers - other, CB7 4EY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 19 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Lamb Hotel (hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house, CB7 4EJ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

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

Trinity Close · Moore Court · Ribe Court · Saxon Close · Upherd's Lane · Upherd's Lane · Bakers Corner · Fairfax Court · Bernard Street · Upherds Lane · Wrens Close · Priests Meadow Court

All the streets in CB6 and across East Cambridgeshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.