Getting around Bosham

Can you live in Bosham without a car?

In much of it, yes, though not all: the basics are within a walk, but frequent buses reach only part of it. The nearest station for most of its postcodes is Bosham, a median 1.2 km away, with 31% of postcodes within 800 metres. It recorded 69,330 entries and exits between April 2024 and March 2025. On the timetable for a term-time weekday (3 November 2026), 16 trains leave Bosham towards Havant and 16 towards Chichester between 7am and 7pm, between one and two an hour each way; westbound they run to Portsmouth Harbour, eastbound to Horsham. That day, bus route 56 calls within 400 metres of 85% of postcodes, about 8 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and none on a Sunday; bus route 700 calls within 400 metres of 35% of postcodes, about 36 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and 29 on a Sunday. 32% of postcodes have a route within 400 metres with at least 12 journeys each way between 7am and 7pm, one an hour on average. The nearest GP surgery for most postcodes is the Bosham Surgery, a median 0.9 km away; the nearest state primary school is Bosham Primary School (0.8 km) and the nearest state secondary Bishop Luffa School, Chichester (3.8 km), which is not necessarily the catchment school. The nearest food shop for most postcodes is the Co-operative Food (0.9 km). Gigabit broadband reaches 65% of premises and superfast 99%, averaged across 110 of Bosham's 122 postcodes (Ofcom, January 2026). Distances are straight lines from each postcode's centre point, and every postcode counts once, however many homes it has.

Source: NaPTAN rail stations (Department for Transport) · ORR estimates of station usage · Bus Open Data Service timetables (Department for Transport) · NHS Organisation Data Service GP surgeries · Get Information about Schools (Department for Education) · OpenStreetMap shops, © OpenStreetMap contributors · Ofcom Connected Nations broadband coverage.