Betfred Opening Times Croydon
Opening times for the four Betfred betting shops with a Croydon address: 6 High Street in the town centre, then Thornton Heath, New Addington and Old Coulsdon. The town-centre branch shows whether it is open right now and how long you have before it closes today.
Checking times…
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Time now in Croydon
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— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to the city centre: Betfred, 6 High Street (CR0 1YA), by the top of Surrey Street market.
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Betfred Croydon opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Croydon
- 4 branches
- With published weekly times
- 1 of the 4
- Opening time, every day
- 08:00 — 6 High Street
- Closing time, every day
- 22:00 — 6 High Street
- Christmas Day
- Every shop closed — required by law
The Croydon town-centre branch holds a record on this site: 6 High Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 on all seven days, including Sunday. No other Betfred we have recorded keeps identical fourteen-hour hours every day of the week, and none opens at 08:00 on a Sunday bar Kemptown in Brighton. The rest of the borough is thinner than you would expect for a town of 190,000: three outer branches at Thornton Heath, New Addington and Old Coulsdon, none of which publishes weekly times we can verify, so they are listed further down without live status.
Betfred in Croydon town centre
The only Croydon Betfred whose full weekly times we can confirm, at 6 High Street by the top of Surrey Street. Each 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, High Street (town centre)6 High Street, Croydon CR0 1YA
6 High Street carries its own published weekly times, and they are the same on every day of the week: 08:00 to 22:00. It sits at the north end of the High Street where Surrey Street market meets Crown Hill, a couple of minutes from both East and West Croydon stations, the Whitgift and Centrale centres and the tram stops. Distances are straight-line estimates from the top of Surrey Street. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Croydon Betfred opening times compared
The weekly pattern for the town-centre branch, with the three unconfirmed rows shown for completeness. Today’s column is highlighted.
There is nothing to compare across the week here, because nothing changes: 08:00 to 22:00, Monday through Sunday. Most town-centre branches on this site lose an hour or more on a Sunday morning and often an hour or two in the evening as well — Darlington drops to 09:00 to 19:30, Chesterfield to 09:30 to 20:00. Croydon High Street does not move at all.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
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| High Street (town centre)6 High Street, CR0 1YA | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | 08:00–22:00 | |
| Thornton Heath (London Road)1101 London Road, CR7 6JJ | Times not yet confirmed | |||
| New Addington (Central Parade)2 Central Parade, CR0 0JB | Times not yet confirmed | |||
| Old Coulsdon (Coulsdon Road)219 Coulsdon Road, CR5 1EN | Times not yet confirmed | |||
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Croydon
This section covers the town-centre branch. The three outer shops are excluded because we cannot verify their hours.
Open earliest
08:00, seven days a week. The weekday time is unremarkable — Croydon’s city-centre shops open at 07:30 and several towns manage 08:00 — but the Sunday is not. Only Kemptown in Brighton also opens at 08:00 on a Sunday. Most towns settle for 09:00 or 09:30, and Castleford and Bury wait until 10:00.
Open latest
22:00, seven days a week. Combined with the 08:00 opening that gives a flat fourteen-hour day every day of the year bar Christmas Day, which no other branch on this site matches. Brighton’s Kemptown shop comes closest with the same hours, and Chelmsford and Cheltenham both hold 22:00 on a Sunday but open later in the morning.
The flattest week on this site: 6 High Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fourteen hours, seven days, no variation. If you remember one thing about betting shop hours in Croydon, that is it.
Betfred Croydon Sunday opening times
Sunday changes nothing at 6 High Street: 08:00 to 22:00, the same as every other day.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
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| High Street (town centre)6 High Street, CR0 1YA | 08:00 | 22:00 |
This is the strongest single Sunday recorded on this site. Fourteen hours from 08:00 to 22:00 covers the early racing, the afternoon football and the late kick-offs with nothing trimmed at either end. The three outer branches may well be shorter, but we cannot confirm their hours, so if you are in Thornton Heath, New Addington or Old Coulsdon on a Sunday it is worth ringing ahead rather than assuming.
Betfred Croydon 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 all four Croydon branches close on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Croydon 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 the High Street shop. 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 each Croydon branch to follow its 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. The town centre is busiest on Saturdays when Surrey Street market is in full swing, and on Crystal Palace matchdays at Selhurst Park, two miles north.
| 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 Croydon 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 Croydon |
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| Christmas Eve | 24 December | — | Normal opening, early close around 18:00 |
| Christmas Day | 25 December | — | Closed all day, every shop |
| 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 Croydon branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. The Broadmead shop sits inside the Croydon Shopping Quarter and may also follow the centre’s own festive hours. 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 Croydon (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 6 High Street, the only Croydon branch with published weekly times. It tells you whether it is open right now and how long until it closes. The three outer shops are left out of the count, because including a shop with unknown hours would make the panel wrong rather than incomplete.
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. Times not published means we have no confirmed hours for that branch. 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 the lists re-order themselves so the closest shop is always at the top, and the directions button points to the nearest of all four branches, including the three whose hours are unconfirmed.
Betfred across the rest of Croydon
Three more Betfred shops carry a Croydon address, spread widely across the borough from Thornton Heath in the north to Old Coulsdon in the south. We have not been able to confirm their weekly times from a source that publishes them branch by branch, so they carry no live status.
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Betfred, Thornton Heath (London Road)1101 London Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon CR7 6JJ
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Betfred, New Addington (Central Parade)2 Central Parade, New Addington, Croydon CR0 0JB
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Betfred, Old Coulsdon (Coulsdon Road)219 Coulsdon Road, Old Coulsdon, Croydon CR5 1EN
| Shop | Address | Distance from the centre | Weekly times |
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| Thornton Heath | 1101 London Road, CR7 6JJ | 2.1 mi | Not confirmed |
| New Addington | 2 Central Parade, CR0 0JB | 4.3 mi | Not confirmed |
| Old Coulsdon | 219 Coulsdon Road, CR5 1EN | 5.1 mi | Not confirmed |
The map, directions and Street View buttons all work for these three, and they are included when you use the location button, so they will still come up as your nearest shop if you are in the north or south of the borough. What we cannot do is tell you whether they are open right now. All three are a genuine distance from the town centre — New Addington is four miles out at the end of the tram line and Old Coulsdon five miles south, close to the Surrey boundary — so the High Street hours are no guide to them. Betfred’s shop line is 0800 032 0878, and the window card will carry the current times. If you know them, let us know and we will add the live rows.
Betfred near Croydon
Croydon is the largest town in south London, and the branches around it are listed under their own post towns rather than under Croydon.
Thornton Heath has a second Betfred at 737–739 London Road under its own CR7 post town, and there are branches at South Norwood, Purley, Sutton, Mitcham and Bromley within a few miles. Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood sit under London SE19 postcodes. Some directory listings also show a Betfred at 1 Grant Place, CR0 6PX; it carries a local landline rather than a Betfred number, so we have left it out until it can be confirmed.
All four branches on this page fall under the London Borough of Croydon for licensing, and all four share the CROYDON post town even though Thornton Heath is CR7 and Old Coulsdon CR5. That is unusual: in most of the towns covered on this site the outer districts sit under separate post towns. If you are heading for South Norwood, Purley or Sutton rather than Croydon itself, use the location button above: the directions button always routes to the nearest of the four Croydon branches, which may not be the nearest Betfred overall.
Other bookmakers in Croydon
Croydon town centre has one of the densest clusters of betting shops in south London, and Betfred has just one of them.
William Hill has branches at 10 Wellesley Road and 3 Station Road, both within a third of a mile of the Betfred, and another at 156 Addington Road in Selsdon. Ladbrokes trades at 14 London Road by West Croydon, and Paddy Power has shops at 37 Church Street and 142 North End, the latter a couple of minutes from the Betfred on the main pedestrianised run. There are further Paddy Power and Ladbrokes branches on London Road towards Thornton Heath.
We are still confirming full weekly times branch by branch for the non-Betfred shops in Croydon, so they are not listed with live status on this page yet. The North End and High Street run is the stretch to know: the Betfred at 6 High Street, a Paddy Power at 142 North End and William Hill on Wellesley Road and Station Road are all within about a third of a mile. Given the 08:00 Sunday opening, the Betfred is likely the first of them open on a Sunday morning, though that is worth checking rather than assuming. Every bookmaker in the borough is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Croydon
| Trading name | Betfred |
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| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | London Borough of Croydon |
| Branches with a Croydon address | 4 betting shops |
| With published weekly times | 1 of the 4 |
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. Croydon is a thin presence for a town of 190,000 and one of the largest commercial centres in Greater London: one shop in the town centre and three scattered across the borough, at Thornton Heath two miles north, New Addington four miles east at the end of the tram line, and Old Coulsdon five miles south. Nothing covers South Croydon, Purley, Addiscombe or Norbury. What the single central shop lacks in company it makes up in hours, trading fourteen hours a day, seven days a week.
For travellers, 6 High Street is the one to know, and given the other three have unconfirmed hours it is effectively the only reliable option in the borough. It is a couple of minutes from East Croydon and West Croydon stations, both on frequent services to London Bridge and Victoria, and a short walk from the Whitgift and Centrale centres and the tram stops at Centrale and Church Street. For Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, the Thornton Heath branch on London Road is nearest at about a mile, with Norwood Junction the closest station to the ground. New Addington sits at the terminus of the Tramlink line from West Croydon, roughly a twenty-five minute ride.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Croydon?
- Four carry a Croydon postal address, all licensed by the London Borough of Croydon: 6 High Street in the town centre, 1101 London Road at Thornton Heath, 2 Central Parade in New Addington and 219 Coulsdon Road at Old Coulsdon. Only the town-centre branch publishes full weekly times; the other three are listed without live status.
- What time does Betfred open in Croydon?
- 6 High Street opens at 08:00 every day of the week, Sunday included, which is unusual — almost every other Betfred covered on this site opens later on a Sunday. We have not been able to confirm opening times for the Thornton Heath, New Addington or Old Coulsdon branches.
- What time does Betfred close in Croydon?
- 6 High Street closes at 22:00 every day of the week. That gives it a fourteen-hour day, seven days a week, with no weekend or Sunday reduction at all.
- Is the Croydon Betfred open on a Sunday?
- Yes. 6 High Street runs 08:00 to 22:00 on a Sunday, exactly as it does on a weekday. It is the only branch on this site with a fourteen-hour Sunday, matching Kemptown in Brighton for the earliest Sunday opening at 08:00 and beating it on total hours.
- 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 Croydon 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 the High Street shop. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve normally close early, and New Year’s Day opens later.
- Which Betfred is nearest to East Croydon station and Selhurst Park?
- 6 High Street is a few minutes from both East and West Croydon stations and the Whitgift and Centrale centres, and it is on the tram route through the town centre. For Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, the Thornton Heath branch on London Road is the nearest of the four, about a mile from the ground, though its hours are unconfirmed.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Croydon?
- Tap “Use my current location”. Every list on this page then re-orders nearest-first, and the directions button at the top routes you to the closest of all four Croydon Betfred shops, including the three whose hours are unconfirmed.