Betfred Opening Times Chelmsford
Opening times for both Betfred betting shops in Chelmsford: 2 Market Road beside the bus station and 183 Moulsham Street a third of a mile south. Both show whether they are open right now and how long you have before they close today.
Checking times…
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Time now in Chelmsford
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— —Last Betfred in Chelmsford closes in
— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to the town centre: Betfred, 2 Market Road (CM1 1XA), a couple of minutes from the bus station.
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Betfred Chelmsford opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Chelmsford
- 2 branches
- With published weekly times
- Both of them
- Earliest weekday opening
- 08:00 — both branches
- Latest closing
- 22:00 — both branches, every day
- Christmas Day
- Both shops closed — required by law
Chelmsford has the most uniform pair of Betfred shops on this site. Both open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday, both close at 22:00, and both hold that 22:00 finish on a Sunday as well — the only variation anywhere in the week is the Sunday morning, when Moulsham Street opens at 08:30 and Market Road at 09:00. Two shops, fourteen-hour days, no weekend drop-off.
Betfred in Chelmsford city centre
The city-centre branch on Market Road, beside the bus station and a few minutes from Chelmsford station and High Chelmer. The row shows today’s times, whether the shop is open now and how long until it closes, with buttons for the map pin, a route from where you are and Street View of the shopfront.
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Betfred, Market Road (city centre)2 Market Road, Chelmsford CM1 1XA
2 Market Road carries its own published weekly times: 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday. It sits just off the top of the High Street by the market and the bus station, with a William Hill on the High Street about two hundred yards away, a Paddy Power at number 12 and a Coral in Dukes Walk. Distances are straight-line estimates from the High Street. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Chelmsford Betfred opening times compared
The full weekly pattern for both branches in one table. Today’s column is highlighted.
The two shops are almost identical. Both run 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, and both close at 22:00 on a Sunday too. The only difference anywhere in the week is the Sunday opening: 08:30 at Moulsham Street against 09:00 at Market Road. If you know that a Chelmsford Betfred closes at 22:00, that holds every day of the year bar the festive fortnight.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
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| Market Road (city centre)2 Market Road, CM1 1XA | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 | |
| Moulsham Street183 Moulsham Street, CM2 0LH | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 08:30–22:00 |
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Chelmsford
Full weekly times are published for both branches, so this section covers every shop on the page.
Open earliest
Both branches open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday, and neither brings that forward for Saturday. On a Sunday, Moulsham Street opens at 08:30 and Market Road at 09:00 — that 08:30 start is earlier than most towns manage on a Sunday, where 09:00 or 10:00 is the norm. Nothing in Chelmsford opens before 08:00 on any day.
Open latest
Both branches close at 22:00, every day of the week, Sunday included. That makes Chelmsford unusual: in most towns covered here at least one shop closes at 20:00 or 21:00, and several have no 22:00 option at all on a Sunday. Here you have two, a third of a mile apart.
The pick of the two: 183 Moulsham Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 08:30 to 22:00 on a Sunday — fourteen hours a day six days a week, thirteen and a half on a Sunday, and the earliest Sunday opening in the city.
Betfred Chelmsford Sunday opening times
Sunday in Chelmsford barely differs from any other day. Both shops still close at 22:00; only the opening time moves.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moulsham Street183 Moulsham Street, CM2 0LH | 08:30 | 22:00 | |
| Market Road (city centre)2 Market Road, CM1 1XA | 09:00 | 22:00 |
Moulsham Street runs thirteen and a half hours on a Sunday, 08:30 to 22:00, and Market Road thirteen, 09:00 to 22:00. Both are open right through the evening kick-offs, so there is no Sunday evening gap in Chelmsford at all — something only Brighton and Bournemouth match among the towns covered here.
Betfred Chelmsford bank holiday opening times
Betting shops in England can trade on every bank holiday bar one. Premises licences issued under the Gambling Act 2005 carry a condition that gambling facilities cannot be provided on Christmas Day, so both Chelmsford branches close on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Chelmsford branches usually run either their normal times for that day of the week or a slightly shorter day. Betfred has in past years announced a chain-wide 20:00 close on bank holiday Mondays, which would cut two hours off both branches. Dates in the tables below update automatically.
Easter opening times
Betting shops have been allowed to open on Good Friday since the Gambling Act 2005 came into force, and there is no Easter Sunday restriction in Great Britain. Across the Easter weekend, expect both Chelmsford branches to follow their usual pattern for that day.
| Day | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Good Friday | Friday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal weekday times |
| Easter Saturday | Saturday before Easter Sunday | — | Normal Saturday times |
| Easter Sunday | First Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March | — | Normal Sunday times |
| Easter Monday | Day after Easter Sunday | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
May and August bank holidays
The early May, spring and summer bank holidays all fall on a Monday. Check the window card or the Betfred shop finder the week before, and both branches would lose two hours if it applies.
| Bank holiday | Falls on | Next date | What to expect |
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| Early May bank holiday | First Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Spring bank holiday | Last Monday in May | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
| Summer bank holiday | Last Monday in August | — | Weekday opening, possible 20:00 close |
Christmas and New Year opening times
The festive fortnight is the only stretch of the year when Chelmsford times move far from the weekly pattern. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally finish early, Boxing Day — the biggest racing day of the winter — runs close to normal, and New Year’s Day starts later.
| Day | Date | Next date | Usual pattern in Chelmsford |
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| Christmas Eve | 24 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| Christmas Day | 25 December | — | Closed all day, both shops |
| Boxing Day | 26 December | — | Normal opening, close around 20:00 |
| Substitute bank holiday | When 25 or 26 December falls on a weekend | — | Normal times for that day |
| New Year’s Eve | 31 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| New Year’s Day | 1 January | — | Later start around 10:00, close around 20:00 |
Each Chelmsford branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. The Market Road shop sits beside the market and the bus station, so its festive hours tend to follow the city centre’s. The live countdowns on this page follow the standard weekly times and the Christmas Day closure only, so check the window card before travelling on 24, 26 or 31 December or 1 January.
How the live opening times work
Everything live on this page reads the clock in Chelmsford (UK time), not the clock on your device, and compares it against each shop’s published times. That keeps the status right even if you are checking from abroad.
The panel at the top
The top panel covers the city-centre branch on Market Road. It tells you whether it is open right now and how long until it closes. After the last close it switches to counting down to opening the next morning.
The shop rows
Open now means the shop is inside its published times and the countdown shows how long is left. Closed shows when it opens next. Counters stop taking cash bets a few minutes before closing so staff can settle slips, so if you are collecting winnings, aim to arrive ten minutes before the time shown.
Map, directions and Street View
Each row has three buttons. Map drops a pin on the shop, Directions plans a route from wherever you are, and Street View shows the street around the shop so you can spot the frontage before you set off. Tap “Use my current location” and both lists re-order themselves, and the directions button points to whichever of the two branches is closer to you.
Betfred on Moulsham Street
The second Chelmsford branch sits at 183 Moulsham Street, about a third of a mile south of the city centre on the old road towards Great Baddow. It publishes full weekly times, so its live status is as exact as the Market Road shop’s.
Betfred in Moulsham 1 shop
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Betfred, Moulsham Street183 Moulsham Street, Moulsham, Chelmsford CM2 0LH
Moulsham Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 08:30 to 22:00 on a Sunday, which makes it the earliest Sunday opening of any Betfred in the city and the equal-latest closing. Moulsham Street is one of Chelmsford’s older shopping parades, a few minutes’ walk from the High Street, and there is a Coral on Gloucester Avenue about a mile south-east. It is the closer of the two branches to Great Baddow, Moulsham Lodge and the Army & Navy roundabout.
Betfred near Chelmsford
Chelmsford sits in the middle of mid Essex, and the surrounding towns each have their own Betfred branches listed under their own names.
Witham is the closest, with a branch in the Newlands Shopping Centre about nine miles north-east, and Wickford’s Station Avenue shop is a similar distance south. Beyond them there are branches at Braintree, Basildon, Harlow and Colchester, and Southend has a larger estate on the coast. Chelmsford City Racecourse at Great Leighs, five miles north, closed in April 2026.
Both Chelmsford shops are licensed by Chelmsford City Council. The Witham and Wickford branches fall under Braintree and Basildon respectively, so they are separate both in postal and licensing terms. If you are heading for Witham or Wickford rather than Chelmsford itself, use the location button above: the directions button always routes to the closer of the two Chelmsford branches, which may not be the nearest Betfred overall.
Other bookmakers in Chelmsford
Chelmsford is a four-brand city centre, and Betfred is level with Coral on two shops each.
William Hill trades at 97–98 High Street, about two hundred yards from the Market Road Betfred, and at the Vineyards in Springfield. Paddy Power has a shop at 12 High Street, and Coral has two: Dukes Walk off Duke Street in the centre and Gloucester Avenue to the south-east, plus a third at Village Square in Springfield.
We are still confirming full weekly times branch by branch for the non-Betfred shops in Chelmsford, so they are not listed with live status on this page yet. The top of the High Street is the spot to know: the Betfred on Market Road, the William Hill at 97–98, the Paddy Power at 12 and the Coral in Dukes Walk are all within about a quarter of a mile. Every bookmaker in the city is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Chelmsford
| Trading name | Betfred |
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| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | Chelmsford City Council |
| Branches in Chelmsford | 2 betting shops |
| With published weekly times | Both of them |
Betfred began in Salford in 1967, when brothers Fred and Peter Done opened their first betting shop, and it runs its estate from Birchwood in Warrington, about 220 miles north-west. Chelmsford is a two-shop city and a light presence for a place of around 180,000 people — Bournemouth, similar in size, has ten. Both shops sit within half a mile of each other in and just south of the centre: Market Road by the market and the bus station, and Moulsham Street on the older parade towards Great Baddow. Neither is a suburban estate shop, which is why both keep full city-centre hours.
For travellers, 2 Market Road is the one to know: beside the bus station, a few minutes from Chelmsford railway station on the Liverpool Street to Norwich line, and a short walk from the High Chelmer and Bond Street shopping centres. Moulsham Street is the better bet on a Sunday morning, opening half an hour earlier, and it is closer to the Army & Navy roundabout and the Chelmer Valley side of the city. Chelmsford City Racecourse at Great Leighs held its last meeting in April 2026.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Chelmsford?
- Two: 2 Market Road in the city centre, beside the bus station, and 183 Moulsham Street about a third of a mile south. Both are licensed by Chelmsford City Council and both publish full weekly times. Witham, Wickford and Harlow have their own branches listed under their own names.
- What time does Betfred open in Chelmsford?
- Both branches open at 08:00 Monday to Saturday. On a Sunday Moulsham Street opens at 08:30 and Market Road at 09:00, so Moulsham Street is the earliest Sunday opening in the city.
- What time does Betfred close in Chelmsford?
- Both close at 22:00, and both hold that time every day of the week including Sunday. Chelmsford is one of the few places covered on this site where every Betfred trades until 22:00 seven days a week.
- Which Betfred in Chelmsford is open latest on a Sunday?
- Both close at 22:00 on a Sunday, so the difference is the morning: Moulsham Street opens at 08:30 and Market Road at 09:00. Moulsham Street therefore runs thirteen and a half hours on a Sunday, half an hour more than Market Road.
- Is Betfred open on Christmas Day?
- No. Every betting shop in Great Britain is closed on Christmas Day. It is a condition attached to premises licences under the Gambling Act 2005, not a company decision.
- Are Betfred shops in Chelmsford open on bank holidays?
- Yes. Good Friday, Easter Monday and the May and August bank holidays are all trading days, usually on normal or slightly shortened hours. Betfred has in past years announced a chain-wide 20:00 close on bank holiday Mondays, which would cut two hours off both branches. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally close early, and New Year’s Day opens later.
- Which Betfred is nearest to Chelmsford station and the racecourse?
- 2 Market Road is the closest to Chelmsford station and the bus station, a few minutes’ walk from both, and it is also nearest to the High Street and Bond Street. Chelmsford City Racecourse at Great Leighs, which closed in April 2026, sits about five miles north of the city centre.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Chelmsford?
- Tap “Use my current location”. Both lists on this page then re-order nearest-first, and the directions button at the top routes you to the closer of the two Chelmsford Betfred shops.