Doddington and Wimblington

13°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 10° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:24Sunset 19:29

13h 5m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

11 reported · July 2026▼ 15% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour2
• Burglary1
• Criminal damage & arson1

Neighbourhood team: March · Cambridgeshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

143 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 197 casualties · 14 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

20 food businesses within 2 miles

• 20 rated 4–5 ★ (18 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: March (5.5 km)
• 10 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£223,168 average▲ 1.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£840 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

• 1 bed £625
• 2 bed £804
• 3 bed £976

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (7 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Doddington Community Hospital (2.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools2
• Sports pitches7
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 51 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

7% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

38inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

595 CQC-registered services

• Care homes141
• GP practices108
• Dentists128
• Homecare agencies137
• Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

159 applications decided

86.8% granted · 138 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Steve Barclay

Conservative

North East Cambridgeshire

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Con 35
• LD 2
• Oth 6

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,335 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

58% low-carbon electricity

Gas 36% · Nuclear 18% · Solar 18% · Biomass 12%

160 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office425 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership409 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases337 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test300 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Require NHS to offer routine third trimester pregnancy ultrasound scan288 local signatures · 10,387 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Wimblington railway station · 0.9 km

  Wimblington railway station was a station in the village of Wimblington, Cambridgeshire. It was closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching Axe. The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the site used for the const…

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  Wimblington · 1.3 km

  Wimblington is a village in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 1700 as of the 2001 census, including Stonea and increasing to 2,211 at the 2011 Census.

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  Doddington, Cambridgeshire · 2.4 km

  Doddington is a village and civil parish lying just off the A141 in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, approximately half way between Chatteris and March.

• Gault Wood · 2.7 km

  Gault Wood is a woodland in Cambridgeshire, England, near the town of March. It covers a total area of 6.51 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.

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  Neale-Wade Academy · 2.9 km

  Neale-Wade Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the market town of March, Cambridgeshire, England. As with many state schools, the current school was the product of a merger of a grammar…

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  Stonea Camp · 3.2 km

  Stonea Camp is an Iron Age multivallate hill fort located at Stonea near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Situated on a gravel bank just 2 metres above sea-level, it is the lowest hill fort in Britain. Around 500 B…

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