Do you treat moles in Cambridge gardens and college grounds?

Yes — the college gardens, allotments and water meadows around the city give moles plenty of undisturbed ground, and it's one of the more common calls we get from Cambridge and the villages around it.

Will you travel to Cambridge for a mole job?

Cambridge is at the edge of our thirty-mile radius, so we'll always confirm we can reach you and give an honest timescale before booking, rather than let you down on the day.

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Mole Control in Cambridge

Quoted per property, based on how many runs are active

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Cambridge’s mix of college gardens, allotments and the water meadows around the city gives moles plenty of undisturbed ground to work — a run of hills across a lawn or a garden border is one of the more common calls we get from the city and the villages around it.

We cover Cambridge and the nearer villages — Histon, Milton, Cherry Hinton and Trumpington — quoted per property once we know roughly how many runs are active. There’s no set price list for mole work; scale varies too much between a single garden border and a larger plot to make a flat fee honest, so we always talk it through with you before quoting. Given the distance, we’ll also confirm we can reach you before booking a visit and give you an honest timescale rather than over-promise — there’s no charge or obligation either way.

Moles are territorial and largely solitary, so a run of molehills across a lawn, garden or allotment plot usually means one animal working a familiar route rather than a colony moving in. That matters for how we treat it: confirming exactly which runs are still active before a single trap goes down is the difference between a job that actually finishes and one that drags on, rather than just knocking the visible hills flat and hoping.

We control moles the way CRC always has, going right back to the job that gave Chris the “Mole Man” name in the first place: traditional trapping, no gas and no poison, checked and cleared on a regular round until the ground stays quiet for good, not just until the first mole’s caught. It’s the same patient, checked-until-it’s-clear method whether the job’s a college garden, a private lawn, or an allotment plot — and it’s the one part of the business that hasn’t changed since the early days.

Mole control is where CRC Pest Control actually began. Chris Clarke had been in the trade for years before word got round the villages about the moles — and “the Mole Man” reputation is still how a lot of people first hear about us, decades on.

The method hasn’t changed because it doesn’t need to: traditional trapping, no gas and no poison, checked on a regular round until the ground stays quiet. Moles are solitary and territorial, so a run of molehills across a lawn or paddock is almost always one animal working a familiar route rather than a colony — and on horse ground, a run close to the surface is a genuine trip hazard, not just a lawn nuisance.

Moles are active all year, but most new molehills appear in autumn, winter and early spring, when the ground is soft and they’re digging fresh tunnels. In a dry summer they go deeper and the hills slow down. That’s when people think the problem has gone, until the rain comes back.

Trapping means nothing poisonous is left in the ground near pets, livestock or children, and you know when the job is done because the mole has been caught. It takes local knowledge to read which runs are in use and where to set a trap, and that’s the part of the job Chris has been doing longest.

We serve farms, gardens, paddocks and yards across Suffolk and Norfolk within 30 miles of Brandon.

How it works

Survey the runs We walk the ground and confirm which molehills and runs are still active — moles are solitary and territorial, so a cluster of hills is almost always one animal working a familiar route, not a colony.
Set and check traps Traditional traps are set on the active runs and checked on a regular round — no gas, no poison, just a method that's worked for generations.
Confirm it's clear We keep checking until the ground stays quiet for good, not just until the first mole's caught.

What's included

A survey of the ground to confirm which molehills and runs are still active
Traditional trapping — no gas, no poison
Traps checked and cleared on a regular round until the ground stays quiet
Honest advice on reducing molehill damage to lawns, paddocks and pasture in the meantime

Mole Control near Cambridge

Everywhere within 30 miles of Brandon, Suffolk, including:

Towns shown as links have their own local page — tap through for mole control details specific to that area.

Mole Control in Cambridge — common questions

Do you treat moles in Cambridge gardens and college grounds?: Yes — the college gardens, allotments and water meadows around the city give moles plenty of undisturbed ground, and it's one of the more common calls we get from Cambridge and the villages around it.
How much does mole control cost in Cambridge?: It's quoted per property once we know roughly how many runs are active — there's no set price list for mole work, and no charge or obligation just to get that figure.
Will you travel to Cambridge for a mole job?: Cambridge is at the edge of our thirty-mile radius, so we'll always confirm we can reach you and give an honest timescale before booking, rather than let you down on the day.