Badly, and the village knows it. There is no station and effectively nobody commutes by train. Nine bus stops, and none of them see a bus in the peak hour. Almost half of working residents drive and a quarter never leave the house to work at all. Tintagel is connected in the sense that roads exist, which is a lower bar than the word usually implies.
Rail is not a factor here. The village has no station of its own, and under 1% of working residents commute by train. Buses give the place 9 stops, and under 1% of residents commute on one. That is not a comment on the drivers or the timetable, it is what a bus network looks like when it serves 44 postcodes on a cliff.
The commute mix tells the real story. Around 47% of working residents drive, about 25% work from home, and roughly 18% walk, with cycling under 1%. Car ownership follows: about 15% of households have no car, and around 37% run two or more. In a village this size, the second car is not a luxury purchase, it is the thing that lets two adults hold jobs in different directions.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre at around 39 minutes by car and about 63 minutes by public transport. By bicycle it is roughly 84 minutes. On foot the model runs to two hours or more, which is its way of saying that walking to a town centre is not a thing anyone does from here. These are modelled figures for the area rather than a route from any particular front door.
The same source puts everyday destinations at varying distances from reasonable. A doctor's surgery is around 12 minutes by car, 23 by public transport and about 61 minutes on foot. A food store is close, at roughly 7 minutes by car and 11 on foot, which is the one genuinely convenient number in the set. Employment centres sit at about 11 minutes by car but around 78 by public transport. A hospital is around 84 minutes by car, and the modelled public transport time runs to two hours or more. Those journey-time statistics date from 2019, and services have been withdrawn across rural England since, so the public transport figures deserve more scepticism than the car and walking ones.
Bus stops are not the same as buses. Across those 9 stops, the current scheduled service averages 6 departures per stop on a weekday, and the average number in the peak hour is zero. All 9 stops do get some weekend service, which is more than many rural parishes manage. Six departures a day is a lifeline rather than a network, and anyone planning to live here without a car should look at the actual timetable before the actual offer.
Broadband is where the picture improves sharply. Superfast reaches about 95% of premises. Gigabit reaches around 5%, which is the gap between being able to work from home and being able to mention your connection speed to other people. Given that a quarter of residents work from home, the superfast figure is doing more for this village than any bus ever will.
Mobile coverage is close to universal from at least one operator at around 100% of premises, with roughly 95% covered by all operators. Whichever network you are on, you will almost certainly have a signal.
Road noise is a non-issue. None of the village's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road traffic as significant, and the same is true for railway noise. That is the compensation for having no fast road anywhere near you.
Electric vehicles are the weak link in an otherwise car-dependent arrangement. There is 1 public charge point in the area, offering 1 connector, and none of it is rapid. Charging here is something you plan around overnight rather than something you do while picking up the shopping.
Connectivity is the clear weak spot of living in Tintagel, and it is not close. Broadband and mobile have quietly solved the working-from-home half of the problem, which leaves the other half exactly where it has always been: in the car, on a long road, for anything that matters.