Betfred Opening Times Tuesday

How many shops are actually within reach

Because every Tuesday in the estate runs the same weekday hours, the useful question is not what time Betfred opens but how many Betfreds you can choose between. The answer varies enormously: the median shop has another within 0.93 miles, but 135 of the 1,426 have no neighbour inside five miles at all.

That is what the radius buttons in the results are for. Set one mile and you get the shops you would genuinely walk to; set twenty and you get the realistic driving choice, with the earliest opener and latest closer inside that circle flagged so you can pick on hours rather than on distance. In dense boroughs a one-mile circle can hold half a dozen shops; across much of Wales, the Scottish Borders and rural Devon it holds one.

Distances are straight-line, so treat them as a guide to what is plausible rather than a route. A shop half a mile away across a river or a railway can be a fifteen-minute walk.

What a Betfred Tuesday looks like

Three openings inside a single hour, and five closings spread across four.

The eight most common Tuesday patterns

The two Tuesdays that differ

Both land late in 2027, and they are opposite cases: one is a bank holiday that changes nothing, the other is a working Tuesday that behaves like a Sunday. Switch between them in the results.

Nothing else in the calendar touches a Tuesday between now and 2028. No Christmas Day, no Boxing Day proper, no New Year’s Day, no Good Friday, neither December eve. Select either of the two above and the results recalculate: St Andrew’s Day tells you how many of your nearby shops are actually in Scotland and then confirms nothing changes, while the Boxing Day substitute shows each shop’s Sunday pattern against its normal Tuesday so you can see exactly what you lose.

Tuesday sport, and the race you cannot bet on in a shop

Tuesday is the day the big festivals begin. Cheltenham opens on a Tuesday with Champion Hurdle day, Royal Ascot opens on a Tuesday, Glorious Goodwood opens on a Tuesday, and the Champions League has shared Tuesday nights with Wednesday for three decades. For a supposedly quiet midweek day, the first Tuesday of a festival is one of the heaviest trading days in the calendar.

There is one famous Tuesday race you cannot walk into a shop for. The Melbourne Cup runs on the first Tuesday in November — 3 November 2026 and 2 November 2027 — and it goes off at around four in the morning UK time, hours before any Betfred unlocks its door. With the earliest opening in the whole verified estate at 07:30, a Melbourne Cup bet placed over a counter has to be struck the day before or taken online.

As on every other day, published weekday hours are flat across the year. We have no evidence that shops open earlier for Cheltenham Tuesday or stay open later for a Champions League night, so assume the listed times and check the shop’s Google listing if it matters.

The loneliest Betfreds in Britain

These six shops are the furthest from any other Betfred. If you are near one of them, the radius buttons will not help — it is that shop or nothing, which makes its Tuesday hours worth knowing precisely.

• 34 Charlotte Street DG9 7EF 41.5 mi Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway
• 16 Great Darkgate Street SY23 1DE 33.1 mi Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
• 14 Broad Street SY16 2NA 27.1 mi Newtown, Powys
• 99 High Street EX31 1HR 23.7 mi Barnstaple, Devon
• 1 The Oval HR2 7HG 18.1 mi Hereford, Herefordshire
• 8 Castle Square SY8 1AY 17.2 mi Ludlow, Shropshire

Distances are straight-line to the next nearest Betfred shop.

Latest, earliest and longest Tuesdays

Open latest on a Tuesday

The 22:00 shops, which cover a Champions League night end to end.

• 3-5 Shelton Square CV1 1DG 07:30–22:00 Coventry, West Midlands
• 16 Peel Square S70 1YA 08:00–22:00 Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• 141 High Street, Kings Heath B14 7DG 08:00–22:00 Birmingham, West Midlands
• 472-476 Halliwell Road BL1 8AN 08:00–22:00 Bolton, Greater Manchester
• 322 Stanley Road L20 3ET 08:00–22:00 Bootle, Merseyside
• 593 Christchurch Road BH1 4AN 08:00–22:00 Bournemouth, Dorset
• 10-12 Holdenhurst Road BH8 8AD 08:00–22:00 Bournemouth, Dorset
• 55 London Road BN1 4JE 08:00–22:00 Brighton, East Sussex

Earliest Tuesday opening

One shop opens at 07:30; the rest of the early group starts at 08:00.

• 3-5 Shelton Square CV1 1DG 07:30–22:00 Coventry, West Midlands
• 16 Peel Square S70 1YA 08:00–22:00 Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• 141 High Street, Kings Heath B14 7DG 08:00–22:00 Birmingham, West Midlands
• 472-476 Halliwell Road BL1 8AN 08:00–22:00 Bolton, Greater Manchester
• 322 Stanley Road L20 3ET 08:00–22:00 Bootle, Merseyside
• 593 Christchurch Road BH1 4AN 08:00–22:00 Bournemouth, Dorset
• 10-12 Holdenhurst Road BH8 8AD 08:00–22:00 Bournemouth, Dorset
• 55 London Road BN1 4JE 08:00–22:00 Brighton, East Sussex

Shortest Tuesday trading

Mostly 09:00 to 20:00, plus a single precinct unit managing eight hours.

• 5-6 Eldon Precinct OL8 1JP 10:00–18:00 Oldham, Greater Manchester
• Birk Avenue S70 3AL 09:00–20:00 Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• 155 Midland Road, Royston S71 4BY 09:00–20:00 Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• 425-427 Wigan Road BL3 4QJ 09:00–20:00 Bolton, Greater Manchester
• 21 Orrell Road L20 6DU 09:00–20:00 Bootle, Merseyside
• 322 Tottington Road BL8 1TA 09:00–20:00 Bury, Greater Manchester
• 203 Manchester Road BL9 9HL 09:00–20:00 Bury, Greater Manchester
• 1C High Streetsedgley DY3 1RP 09:00–20:00 Dudley, West Midlands

England, Scotland and Wales

Midweek is the most uniform part of the week across the three nations, and Tuesday is no exception. The one Tuesday where the nations diverge on paper is St Andrew’s Day 2027, and even that changes no trading hours.

The verified sample is weighted towards England, so treat the Scottish and Welsh rows as indicative.

How confident each time is

Verified — 295 shops whose weekly hours come from published branch times. Every hours figure on this page is calculated from these shops alone.

Standard pattern — 1,111 shops we have not verified individually, shown on the estate’s usual weekday shape as a working expectation rather than a fact. A further 20 shops have no hours at all and say so.

The distance figures are different in kind and worth separating out. Every shop on this site has a mapped position, so the radius filter, the median gap of 0.93 miles and the isolation list are computed from all 1,426 shops rather than the verified 295. Those numbers are as good as the coordinates, which are accurate to the postcode and occasionally approximate for a retail park or shopping centre unit — flagged on the row where that applies.

The usual structural caveat applies to the hours: branch times are published as a single Monday-to-Friday figure, so the Tuesday shown for each shop is by definition the same as its Monday. Nothing here is a legal certainty, because no Tuesday in this period is Christmas Day.

Frequently asked questions

Every Betfred shop, A to Z, with its Tuesday hours

All 1,426 shops by post town with the Tuesday hours on each row, 1,406 of them linking to their own page for the full week.