Swanmore is connected the way rural Hampshire usually is, which is to say by car and by very little else. There is no railway station in the village. Almost nobody commutes by train. The bus barely features in how people actually get to work. What Swanmore does have is a good broadband line and a driveway, and between those two the modern version of this village works perfectly well.
Public transport is the weak hand, and there is no point dressing it up. Fewer than one in a hundred residents commute by train, which follows naturally from the nearest stations sitting out at places like Botley, Fareham, Swanwick and Havant rather than anywhere you could walk to. Reaching a platform means a drive first, and once a train involves a car journey at both ends, most people quietly stop bothering. The bus is no busier. There are just over a hundred bus stops dotted across the wider area, yet again fewer than one in a hundred people use the bus to get to work, which tells you the routes exist more in theory than in daily practice. This is not a place where you stand at a stop and trust something will come.
Broadband is where Swanmore quietly redeems itself. Full gigabit speeds reach about four in ten homes, and faster-than-average connections cover a good deal more of the area than that, so the digital pipe into the village is a lot better than the physical roads out of it. For a rural settlement, that is the more useful of the two, and it is the reason so many people here have stopped commuting altogether.
In practice, life runs on the car and on the home office in roughly equal measure. About half of working residents drive to their jobs, and over four in ten work from home, which between them account for almost everyone and leave the trains and buses as a rounding error. The nearest town centre sits about a quarter of an hour away by car, which is fine for the weekly shop and the school run and less fine on the mornings the single road out is having a bad day. This is a two-car sort of place, and a household trying to manage on none would find the geography wearing.
So how well connected is Swanmore. Middling, and only if you drive. The broadband is genuinely good, the roads are workable, and the public transport is the kind you keep as a backup rather than a plan. Come with a car and a decent internet package and the village functions. Come expecting to live without either and it will fight you every day.