Badly, and the village has organised its entire life around that fact. No station. Six bus stops. Nearly three in ten people work from home, and over half of households keep two cars or more. Connectivity here is something you buy at a dealership rather than something the place provides.
There is no railway station, and the census records nobody at all commuting by train. Buses exist in the technical sense: six stops across the area, used by about 1% of working residents. That is not a failure of local enthusiasm for public transport so much as an accurate response to what is on offer.
What people actually do is drive. Around 56% of working residents commute by car, 29% work from home, and 9% walk. Car ownership tells the same story from the other end: only about 8% of households have no car, while 55% run two or more. A second vehicle here is not an indulgence, it is what happens when two adults both need to be somewhere and only one road goes there.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre at around 15 minutes by car and around 27 minutes by public transport. That gap is the entire argument in two numbers, and the public transport figure is the optimistic version.
The same modelling gives the town centre as roughly 36 minutes by bicycle and roughly 92 minutes on foot. An hour and a half of walking is not a journey anyone makes to buy a pint of milk, and stating it plainly is more useful than dressing it up: this is not a walkable location for anything beyond the village itself. All of these are modelled figures for the area rather than a route measured from any particular front door.
Everyday destinations follow the same pattern. A general practice surgery sits about 14 minutes away by car, 36 by public transport and 95 minutes on foot. A food store is around 13 minutes by car and 85 minutes walking. Employment centres come in at about 27 minutes driving and 45 by public transport. A hospital is roughly 53 minutes by car and two hours by public transport, which is the figure worth thinking hardest about if anyone in the household has regular appointments. The public transport times in that set were modelled in 2019 and rural services have been cut since, so treat them with considerably more caution than the car and walking figures.
For what the buses currently do rather than what they were modelled doing, four of the stops carry service data showing around 10 scheduled departures each on a weekday and about one bus in the peak hour. All four have some weekend service, which is genuinely better than a lot of rural Devon manages. One bus an hour at peak is a service you plan your day around rather than a service you use.
Broadband is where the picture flips. Superfast reaches 100% of premises, gigabit connections are available to 70%, and no premises falls below the universal service obligation. For a village with one bus an hour, that is a strange and welcome inversion: the data arrives faster than the people do. It also explains the 29% working from home rather better than any lifestyle theory would.
Mobile coverage from at least one operator reaches the whole area, with 91% covered by every operator.
Road noise is the counterintuitive finding. Every postcode in the area sits near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. No postcode registers on the rail noise mapping, since there is no railway to make any. The trunk road that took the through-traffic out of the village in 1993 did not take it far, and the countryside is quieter in photographs than in decibels.
For electric vehicles there are three public charge points in the area offering four connectors between them, one of which is rapid. A single rapid unit means charging is something you schedule rather than something that happens incidentally while you do the shopping.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about living here, and it is weak in the specific way that costs money rather than the way that costs time: no station, thin buses, and two cars on the drive as the entry fee. The broadband is the one line in this section that argues the other way, and for a lot of buyers it is now the line that matters most.