Service 51 currently operates on Sundays and bank holidays between Eastbourne town centre and North Hailsham on an hourly basis during the main part of the day. From 25 July 2010, the route is being extended to Heathfield to provide a new Sunday service for heathfield, Maynards Green, Horam and Hellingly. Heathfield is the largest settlement in East Sussex currently without public transport access on Sundays. The service has been developed by stagecoach in partnership with the county council, Heathfield and Waldron Parish Council and the Heathfield Partnership and is being funded by a 'kick-start' contribution from County Council. It is expected that patronage will be sufficient in the longer term to permit commercial operation on Sundays and bank holidays.
The first journey from Heathfield High Street to Hailsham and Eastbourne will be at 0930 with the last journey at 1750. The first journey to Heathfield will be the 0840 from Eastbourne, Terminus Road, and the last journey will be at 1740 from that point.
This extension means bus times between Hailsham and Eastbourne will vary by a few minutes from the current timetable.
Further timetable information is available from www.stagecoachbus.com/eastsussex
or phone 08456 00 22 99.
As at: 21 July 2010
Age Concern for Heathfield and District are in desperate need of new volunteer drivers to help to continue to run its minibus service. If you are able to help with providing crucial transport for the elderly residents in the area please contact John Banks on 01825 733799.
As at: 2 April 2010
NEW RATES FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS IN 2010 WANTING TO HIRE MINIBUS TRANSPORT FOR OUTINGS - PLEASE SEE RATECARD BELOW.
If you are looking for information on local taxi firms or other commercial transport providers, please click on the Shops and Business Search button or see below.
For up-to-date local transport information, please visit:
Stage Coach, tel no: 01323 416416 or www.stagecoachbus.com/eastsussex
Arriva Buses, tel no: 0844 8004411 or www.arrivabus.co.uk
Country Liner, tel no: 01444 246693 or www.countryliner-coaches.co.uk
For timetable information call Travel Line on 0871 2002233
New Service - from February 2010:
The Countryliner 196/197 Eastbourne shopping service from Crowborough via Heathfield to Eastbourne. On Mondays only it runs as 196 from Crowborough Station, goes up to Crowborough High Street, then via High Hurstwood and Buxted to Heathfield; and then renumbered 197 goes down to the Arndale Centre via Eastbourne and District General Hospital. It leaves Heathfield High Street at 9.54 am and gets to the Arndale Centre at 10.40am. The return service leaves the Arndale Centre at 1.00pm and arrives at Heathfield Fire Station at 1.47pm. It then continues to Crowborough.
This means that we have 2 "Eastbourne shopping services" connecting Heathfield and Eastbourne. The routes are very different: the 195 goes via Rushlake Green and Herstmonceux and does not go to the Eastbourne and District General Hospital, whereas the 197 route duplicates the 52 to a considerable extent. It also means that we now have a bus link to Crowborough, though if you use it to go to Crowborough you can't come back until the next day!
Late night service between Tunbridge Wells and Heathfield
Arriva 225 - On Friday and Saturday nights there is a late bus that leaves Knights Park Industrial Estate at 11.11pm, then Tunbridge Wells Station at 11.24pm which arrives at Heathfield High Street at 12.22am. You can also get into Tunbridge Wells by catching the Stage Coach 252 at 6.05pm from the Heathfield Fire Station which arrives at Tunbridge Wells Station at 6.44pm. You then have to catch the Arriva 277 leaving at 7.06pm which arrives 7.20pm at Greggswood Road which is a 10-15 minute walk to Knights Park.
Please check with the appropriate travel operator before travelling.
Background Information to the Community Transport Project
The Transport Committee was formed in 2007 to look at community transport within Heathfield. An accessibility audit was undertaken in 2007 and is available to the public via the Heathfield and Waldron Parish council office, the library and on this website (please see below).
A ‘Getting out and about in Heathfield ' transport leaflet was published in 2007, see below, by the Heathfield and Waldron Parish council and was an objective that came from the questionnaire that was organised by the Partnership. This was distributed to every household in the Parish and is also available on this website.
The Heathfield Partnership, working together with Heathfield Youth Centre and Heathfield Community College are pleased to announce the success of the originally six month pilot transport project "the Youth Express", which is still continuing to run. The project, by providing transport, has enabled young people in rural areas around Heathfield to access some of the Youth Centre and Colleges' afterschool provisions.
Funding for this transport project was provided by East Sussex County Council and was used to run a minibus to provide transport for students from rural areas. The service was free and available to all students. East Sussex County Council awarded this project a second grant in October 2009 which has enabled us to keep providing this vital transport.
A few clubs/projects are chosen for young people to access at the Youth Centre and the Youth Express was also used to provide transport for one-off trips and outings to Eastbourne skate park and leisure centre, Knockhatch, Hailsham bowling alley and Tunbridge Wells cinema, to name but a few.
Please click on the Heathfield Youth Centre button for more information.
The transport scheme is also open to all local groups/organisations based in Heathfield who wish to hire minibuses for one-off outings. For more information please see the ratecard below or phone: 01892 610314 or email heathfieldpartnership@fsmail.net.
We are currently looking for volunteer drivers to help with the Youth Express transport project, so if you have experience of driving a minibus and preferably have a CRB, please make contact us by one of the means shown above.
Last updated: February 2010
News - 21 August 2009:
A bus is to serve Waldron for the first time in 10 years. Countryliner bus services has launched a 195 shopper bus which runs from the Star Inn, Waldron, to Eastbourne via Heathfield, Cade St, Three Cups, Punnetts Town and Rushlake Green weekly on a Wednesday. For more information on this and other local transport, you can collect a leaflet from the Heathfield and Waldron Parish Council office, telephone 0844 477 1623 or go onto
http://www.countryliner-coaches.co.uk/
Art Private Hire
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Best Private Hire
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Corporate Carriages of Heathfield
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Elegance Cars (UK) Ltd
Telephone number: 07999 257012
French and Son Ltd
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Heathfield Cars
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Heathfield Taxi Services
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Heffle Cars
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High Weald Travel
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Holi-Drive Carriage Company
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Simpsons Private Hire
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To & Fro Taxis
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