Poorly, if connected means public transport, and rather well if it means broadband. There is no station. Almost nobody catches a bus to work. More than half drive, and close to a quarter work from home. This is a town that solved its transport problem by declining to commute.
The railway was dismantled in 1966 and nothing took its place, which is why the rail share of the journey to work stands at zero. There are 26 bus stops across the area, and 0.4% of working residents board one to reach a job. The stops are not the issue. What calls at them is.
About 54% drive to work, about 23% work from home, about 15% walk and about 2% cycle. Around 43% of households run two or more cars, and about 15% run none at all. Working from home is the nearest thing this town has to a transport policy, and it is the reason the other numbers are survivable.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which describe the area rather than any particular front door, put the nearest town centre 25 minutes away by car and 54 by public transport. By bike it is 56 minutes. On foot it is 120, and a two-hour walk is a finding rather than a suggestion.
Broadband is where the town comfortably outperforms its roads. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 81% of premises, superfast reaches all of them, and no premises sit below the universal service obligation.
Mobile coverage comes from at least one operator across the whole area, with all operators reaching about 97% of it.
Public charging is thin. There are 2 charge points with 4 connectors between them, and none of them is rapid. Charging here is an overnight arrangement rather than something you fit around the shopping.
For a working household the practical shape is straightforward: one car as the entry requirement, two where two people work in different directions, and an internet connection good enough that the third option is not going anywhere.
Everyday destinations sit far closer than the town-centre figures suggest. The same Department for Transport statistics, modelled in 2019, put a doctor's surgery 8 minutes away by car, 18 on foot and 14 by public transport, and a food store 8 minutes by car or 17 on foot. Employment centres come in at 20 minutes by car and 44 by public transport. A hospital is 46 minutes by car and 86 by public transport, which is the number that reshapes a household's thinking about an ageing parent. Distances to fixed destinations hold steady over the years, but the public transport figures date from 2019 and services have thinned since, so read those as the optimistic version.
Current timetables describe the buses better than the stop count does. Across the 22 stops with published service data there are about 25 scheduled weekday departures each, dropping to about 1.3 buses an hour at peak, and only about 32% of those stops see any weekend service. Departures are the unit that matters rather than routes, because a stop with a couple of buses a day is a landmark rather than a service.
Road noise registers across the whole place. Every postcode sits near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping starts treating road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75. Rail noise does not feature anywhere, for reasons 1966 settled.
Connectivity is the weak side of this town and the part no amount of money fixes from the inside: no rail, buses that fade out by Saturday, and a car as the price of entry. The broadband is the compensation, and it is a large part of why the people here have stopped needing the rest.