Getting around Chidham and Hambrook

Can you live in Chidham and Hambrook without a car?

In parts: some streets are close to a station or a frequent bus, but the everyday basics are further away. The nearest station for most of its postcodes is Nutbourne, a median 0.8 km away, with 56% of postcodes within 800 metres. It recorded 66,914 entries and exits between April 2024 and March 2025. On the timetable for a term-time weekday (3 November 2026), 16 trains leave Nutbourne 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 700 calls within 400 metres of 42% of postcodes, about 36 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and 29 on a Sunday; bus route 56 calls within 400 metres of 42% of postcodes, about twice each way between 7am and 7pm, and none on a Sunday. 40% 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 Southbourne Surgery, a median 1.6 km away; the nearest state primary school is Chidham Parochial Primary School (1.1 km) and the nearest state secondary Bourne Community College (2.4 km), which is not necessarily the catchment school. The nearest food shop for most postcodes is Shop'N Drive (0.7 km). Gigabit broadband reaches 80% of premises and superfast 94%, averaged across 76 of Chidham and Hambrook's 80 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.