Lyndhurst is wired for the internet and stranded from the timetable. There is no railway station in the village. Next to nobody here commutes by train or bus. Over four in ten residents drive to work, and almost as many do not commute at all because they work from home. If your idea of connected means broadband, the village delivers. If it means public transport, bring a car.
The rail picture is the weak point, and it is weak because the trains are somewhere else. The nearest stations are Ashurst New Forest, Beaulieu Road and Brockenhurst, each of them a drive out of the village rather than a walk to the platform. It shows in how people actually travel: only about one in two hundred residents gets to work by train. Buses fare no better. There are fifteen bus stops scattered across the area, but the share of people commuting by bus rounds down to almost nothing, something like one in a thousand. The service exists on paper more than it does in anyone's daily routine. Reaching the town centre takes around twenty minutes by public transport against under ten by car, which tells you everything about which one people choose.
Broadband is where the village quietly does well. Gigabit-capable connections reach just over half of postcodes, and faster-than-standard broadband covers nearly all of them. For a settlement wrapped in forest and light on public transport, that is a genuinely strong position. It is also the reason the work-from-home figure is as high as it is. The fibre arrived even where the buses did not, and a lot of Lyndhurst has quietly rearranged its working life around that fact.
For a typical commute, the honest translation is simple. This is a car place, or a home-working place, and very little in between. If your job is at the end of a train line, you are driving to a station before you have gone anywhere by rail, and the buses will not rescue a schedule that depends on them. People who move here and expect to leave the car behind tend to buy one within the year. The ones who thrive are the ones whose office is a spare room or a short drive, not a distant platform.
Lyndhurst is poorly connected by public transport and comfortably connected by broadband, and the second does not cancel the first. Come here able to drive, or able to work from home, because the timetable will not carry you.