Newick is connected the way rural Sussex villages are connected, which is to say sparingly and by car. There is no station in the village. Bus service exists but is not a serious commute option. Broadband, on the other hand, has caught up to the point where the working-from-home version of your life is basically fine. About one in twenty residents commutes by train, one in a hundred by bus, and roughly forty-six in a hundred work from home, which is the highest single share of any commute pattern here and the fact that quietly explains the village.
On public transport, the picture is honest about what a rural village can offer. There is no railway station in Newick itself. The nearest one that shows up in the local station lists is Plumpton Rail Station, which sits at a driving distance rather than a walking one and gives you a foot in the door of the Sussex-to-London network without pretending Newick has a station of its own. About three in a hundred residents commute by train, which is the number of a village where the rail option requires a first-leg drive to the platform. Buses run through the area, and there are around fourteen bus stops in the local bounding box, but only about one in a hundred residents uses the bus to commute. That is a rural bus network doing rural bus network things: useful for local errands and for people who cannot drive, but not the transport spine of anyone's working week.
On broadband, the news is quietly good. Gigabit-capable broadband is available to roughly fifty-three per cent of premises, which is genuinely respectable for a village of this size and location, and superfast broadband (which is the older, still-comfortably-fast benchmark) reaches nearly all of the village. The share of premises stuck below the government's universal service obligation floor is effectively zero. If your job is one you can do from a laptop, the pipes are there.
Getting about, in practice, means owning a car. This is not a village where a two-car household is a luxury signal, it is roughly the household norm. Around six in ten households have two or more cars, and only about one in twenty households has none at all. The typical commute is either a drive to a nearby town for the workday, or, more commonly now, a walk from the kitchen to a desk somewhere else in the house. For those who do travel out, driving is the most common commute pattern at roughly forty-four in a hundred, and the drive-time picture for the local town centre sits in the mid-teens rather than something painful. Public transport journey times to the local town centre run into the half-hour range, which is workable if you have to but rarely the version of the trip anyone chooses.
The verdict on connectivity is that it is a middling answer, which is honest rather than damning. If you have a car and a home broadband connection, everything works. If you were hoping for a proper rail commute or a village bus network you could plan a life around, this is not the village. Newick is well connected for a rural Sussex village, and that qualifier is the whole verdict.