Getting around Fishbourne

Can you live in Fishbourne without a car?

Mostly: the station and frequent buses are close, though some everyday trips are longer. The nearest station for most of its postcodes is Fishbourne, a median 0.5 km away, with 90% of postcodes within 800 metres. It recorded 67,938 entries and exits between April 2024 and March 2025. On the timetable for a term-time weekday (3 November 2026), 16 trains leave Fishbourne 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 92% of postcodes, about 8 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and none on a Sunday; bus route 700 calls within 400 metres of 53% of postcodes, about 36 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and 29 on a Sunday. 53% 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 Parklands Surgery, a median 1.9 km away; the nearest state primary school is Fishbourne CofE Primary School (0.5 km) and the nearest state secondary Bishop Luffa School, Chichester (1.2 km), which is not necessarily the catchment school. The nearest food shop for most postcodes is Tesco Extra (1.2 km). Gigabit broadband reaches 91% of premises and superfast 95%, averaged across 74 of Fishbourne's 78 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.