Getting around Westbourne

Can you live in Westbourne without a car?

Day to day, perhaps, because the basics are within a walk, but getting further afield is hard without one. Locals see it as harder than these figures suggest. The nearest station for most of its postcodes is Emsworth, a median 1.7 km away. It recorded 362,368 entries and exits between April 2024 and March 2025. On the timetable for a term-time weekday (3 November 2026), 48 trains leave Emsworth towards Havant and 48 towards Chichester between 7am and 7pm, about four an hour each way; westbound they run to Southampton Central and Portsmouth Harbour, eastbound to Horsham and Brighton. That day, bus route 54 calls within 400 metres of 56% of postcodes, about 4 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 George & Dragon Surgery, a median 0.5 km away; the nearest state primary school is Westbourne Primary School (0.5 km) and the nearest state secondary Bourne Community College (1.5 km), which is not necessarily the catchment school. The nearest food shop for most postcodes is the Co-operative Food (0.3 km). Gigabit broadband reaches 81% of premises and superfast 92%, averaged across 87 of Westbourne's 91 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.