Getting around Funtington

Can you live in Funtington without a car?

It would be hard. Locals say the same. The nearest station for most of its postcodes is Bosham, a median 2.4 km away. 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 54 calls within 400 metres of 56% of postcodes, about 5 times each way between 7am and 7pm, and none on a Sunday. Almost no postcodes have a route averaging one bus an hour each way. The nearest GP surgery for most postcodes is the Bosham Surgery, a median 2.9 km away; the nearest state primary school is Funtington Primary School (1.4 km) and the nearest state secondary Bourne Community College (4.0 km), which is not necessarily the catchment school. The nearest food shop for most postcodes is Londis (2.0 km). Gigabit broadband reaches 34% of premises and superfast 81%, averaged across 80 of Funtington's 86 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.