Watermill Lane
East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: area-safety proxy 55/100; transport-stop proximity 50/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 66/100. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: liquidity proxy 70/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £835,700 from 20 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: area-safety proxy 55/100; family indicators 80/100; green-space proximity 66/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 50/100; amenity proximity 45/100; daily amenities 30/100; market proxy 65/100. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: liquidity proxy 70/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £835,700 from 20 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transaction activity 50%, Market 50%; no return forecast. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: area-safety proxy 55/100; green-space proximity 66/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 45/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 50/100; daily amenities 30/100; area-safety proxy 55/100. Recorded median sale price: £835,700 from 20 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
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Watermill Lane is located in East Hertfordshire, near Hertford, Hertfordshire. The associated LSOA area has 138 recorded incidents from 2025-08 to 2026-07. Incident rows were observed in 12 of the 12 selected months. These are area counts, not street-level incidents or population-adjusted rates; they do not establish a comparison with local or national averages. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: rail and bus. The nearest mapped stop (Revels Road) is 186m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The median property price is £835,700. Based on 20 transactions recorded since 2014. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 1,418; owner-occupied homes 42.8%; social housing 1%; retired population 20.5%; average household size 2.5. There are 5 schools within 2 km, 5 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. 3 are rated Outstanding. Both primary and secondary options are available locally. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is investors at 68/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 57/100. Its recorded district percentile is 78. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
Property Market
Detached | Freehold | Transactions: Moderate recorded volume
Source release: 2026-08-28; registrations received through 2026-07-31. Earlier periods can be revised by late registrations. Standard and additional transactions are included, so property mix can affect the median.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Open Government Licence v3.0). Median comparisons use two full calendar years five years apart, with at least five sales in each. Different properties may have sold; this is not a house-price index or a prediction of returns.
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Watermill Lane, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (3)
- Hartham Leisure Centre 871m · 11 min walk
- Anytime Fitness 1204m · 15 min walk
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing 1240m · 16 min walk
hospitals (2)
- Bull Plain Clinic 1247m · 16 min walk
- Hertford County Hospital 1641m · 20 min walk
libraries (2)
- Hertford 1316m · 16 min walk
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies 1897m · 24 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- St Leonard's Garden 277m · 4 min walk
- Hartham Common 760m · 10 min walk
- Grandma's Garden 939m · 12 min walk
- Castle Grounds 1494m · 19 min walk
- Waterford Heath 1607m · 20 min walk
schools (5)
- Bengeo Primary School 638m · 8 min walk
- Mill Mead Primary Academy 1246m · 16 min walk
- Abel Smith School 1443m · 18 min walk
- Richard Hale School 1677m · 21 min walk
- Simon Balle All-Through School 1738m · 22 min walk
Transport Links
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Compared within this district using at least four shared score dimensions. Missing indicators are excluded.
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Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees.
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