Betfred Opening Times Eastbourne
Opening times for both Betfred betting shops in Eastbourne: 22 Cornfield Road in the town centre, a minute from the station, and 34 Framfield Way at Hampden Park, a mile and a quarter north. 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 Eastbourne
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— —Until you share your location, “nearest” means nearest to the town centre: Betfred, 22 Cornfield Road (BN21 4QE), on Cornfield Road, a minute from Eastbourne station.
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Betfred Eastbourne opening times at a glance
- Betfred shops in Eastbourne
- 2 branches
- With published weekly times
- Both of them
- Earliest weekday opening
- 08:30 — Cornfield Road
- Latest weekday closing
- 22:00 — both branches
- Christmas Day
- Both shops closed — required by law
Eastbourne has two Betfred shops, and the interesting day is Sunday. Monday to Saturday they are near-identical: both close at 22:00, with Cornfield Road in the town centre opening half an hour earlier at 08:30. Come Sunday they part company — Hampden Park trades until 21:00 while the town-centre shop shuts at 20:00, so the suburban branch is the later of the two on a Sunday evening. For a resort town, a 22:00 close six days a week is strong; the 20:00 Sunday finish in the centre is the one to watch.
Betfred on Cornfield Road
The town-centre branch at 22 Cornfield Road, a minute from Eastbourne station and a short walk from Terminus Road. 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, Cornfield Road (town centre)22 Cornfield Road, Eastbourne BN21 4QE
Cornfield Road carries its own published weekly times: 08:30 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 20:00 on a Sunday. It sits in the heart of the town-centre cluster, with a Ladbrokes on Gildredge Road and another on Langney Road both about two hundred yards away, and a William Hill and a Paddy Power on Terminus Road a similar distance. Distances are straight-line estimates from the station. Street View opens at the shop’s position, so you may need to turn the view to face the shopfront.
Eastbourne Betfred opening times compared
The full weekly pattern for both branches in one table. Today’s column is highlighted.
Monday to Saturday the two shops differ by exactly half an hour, all of it in the morning: Cornfield Road opens at 08:30 and Hampden Park at 09:00, and both close at 22:00. Sunday is where they separate properly. Both open at 09:00, but Hampden Park runs to 21:00 while the town-centre shop stops at 20:00 — so the suburban branch is the longer-trading one on the one day of the week when the town centre is busiest with visitors.
| Shop | Mon – Fri | Saturday | Sunday | Find the shop |
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| Cornfield Road (town centre)22 Cornfield Road, BN21 4QE | 08:30–22:00 | 08:30–22:00 | 09:00–20:00 | |
| Hampden Park (Framfield Way)34 Framfield Way, BN21 2RB | 09:00–22:00 | 09:00–22:00 | 09:00–21:00 |
Earliest and latest Betfred shops in Eastbourne
Full weekly times are published for both branches, so this section covers every shop on the page.
Open earliest
Cornfield Road opens at 08:30 every day from Monday to Saturday, the earliest in the town, with Hampden Park half an hour behind at 09:00. Neither brings its opening forward for a Saturday. On a Sunday both open at 09:00, which is respectable — Castleford and Bury both wait until 10:00 — though nothing here matches the 08:00 Sunday starts in Brighton and Croydon.
Open latest
Both branches close at 22:00 Monday to Saturday, which is a strong six days for a town this size. On a Sunday Hampden Park closes at 21:00 and Cornfield Road at 20:00, so after eight on a Sunday evening the Framfield Way shop is the only Betfred open in Eastbourne.
The Sunday switch: six days a week both shops close at 22:00 and Cornfield Road opens earliest, but on a Sunday evening Hampden Park is the only Betfred in Eastbourne open after 20:00. Worth knowing before a Sunday walk along the front.
Betfred Eastbourne Sunday opening times
Sunday is the one day the two shops separate: both open at 09:00, but Hampden Park stays open an hour longer than the town centre.
| Shop | Opens | Closes | Find the shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampden Park (Framfield Way)34 Framfield Way, BN21 2RB | 09:00 | 21:00 | |
| Cornfield Road (town centre)22 Cornfield Road, BN21 4QE | 09:00 | 20:00 |
Hampden Park runs twelve hours on a Sunday, 09:00 to 21:00, and Cornfield Road eleven, 09:00 to 20:00. Neither matches Brighton along the coast, where five of six branches trade until 22:00 on a Sunday, but both cover the afternoon and the early evening kick-offs. If you are on the seafront late on a Sunday, the town-centre shop will already be shut.
Betfred Eastbourne 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 Eastbourne branches close on 25 December by law rather than by choice.
On the other bank holidays, Eastbourne 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 take two hours off both Eastbourne 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. Easter is the start of the Eastbourne season, so expect both branches to be busy and 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: 20:00 and 21:00 closes |
| 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, and all three land in Eastbourne’s main season. The August bank holiday usually falls just after Airbourne, the town’s seafront air show, and the Eastbourne International tennis at Devonshire Park runs in the week before Wimbledon in late June.
| 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 Eastbourne 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 Eastbourne |
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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 Eastbourne branch sets its own festive times and usually posts them in the window from mid-December. Out of season the resort is much quieter, so the 22:00 closes are worth confirming in midwinter. 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 Eastbourne (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 town-centre branch on the High Street. 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 at Hampden Park
The second Eastbourne branch sits at 34 Framfield Way in Hampden Park, about a mile and a quarter north of the town centre, in the parade by the station. It publishes full weekly times, so its live status is as exact as the Cornfield Road shop’s.
Betfred in Hampden Park 1 shop
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Betfred, Hampden Park (Framfield Way)34 Framfield Way, Hampden Park, Eastbourne BN21 2RB
Hampden Park runs 09:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 21:00 on a Sunday, which makes it the later-closing of the two Eastbourne shops on a Sunday evening by a full hour. It sits in the Framfield Way parade beside Hampden Park station, two stops up the line from Eastbourne, with a Ladbrokes on Brassey Avenue about a mile away. It is the closer of the two branches to Priory Lane, home of Eastbourne Borough, and to the Langney and Willingdon side of town.
Betfred near Eastbourne
Eastbourne sits between Beachy Head and Pevensey Bay, and the nearest Betfred branches outside the town are along the coast or up into the Weald.
Bexhill-on-Sea is the closest, twelve miles east, with two branches on Sea Road and Ninfield Road, both listed under their own post town. Heathfield’s High Street shop is thirteen miles north into the Weald, and Hastings and St Leonards lie beyond Bexhill. Brighton, covered on its own page with six branches, is about twenty-two miles west along the coast. Hailsham, Polegate, Seaford and Pevensey have betting shops but no Betfred, so Coral and Ladbrokes cover those towns.
Both Eastbourne shops are licensed by Eastbourne Borough Council. The Bexhill branches fall under Rother District Council and Heathfield under Wealden, so they are separate in both postal and licensing terms. If you are heading for Bexhill, Hailsham or Polegate rather than Eastbourne itself, use the location button above: the directions button always routes to the closer of the two Eastbourne branches.
Other bookmakers in Eastbourne
Eastbourne town centre has a dense cluster of betting shops, and Ladbrokes has the most of them.
Ladbrokes trades at 1 Gildredge Road and 3 Langney Road, both about two hundred yards from the Cornfield Road Betfred, plus 31–33 Brassey Avenue towards Hampden Park, 80 Seaside and a unit in the Langney Shopping Centre. William Hill has a shop at 174 Terminus Road and Paddy Power at 157, both a couple of minutes from the town-centre Betfred.
We are still confirming full weekly times branch by branch for the non-Betfred shops in Eastbourne, so they are not listed with live status on this page yet. The Terminus Road and Cornfield Road corner is the spot to know: the Betfred, a William Hill, a Paddy Power and two Ladbrokes all sit within about two hundred yards of Eastbourne station. Given the town-centre Betfred closes at 20:00 on a Sunday, one of those may well be the later option that evening, which is worth checking rather than assuming. Every bookmaker in the town is closed on Christmas Day by law.
About Betfred in Eastbourne
| Trading name | Betfred |
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| Licensee | Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited |
| Head office | Birchwood, Warrington |
| Licensing authority | Eastbourne Borough Council |
| Branches in Eastbourne | 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 260 miles north-west. Eastbourne is a two-shop town, which is light for a resort of 100,000 — Bournemouth, twice the size, has ten. One branch sits in the middle of the town on Cornfield Road, a minute from the station and a short walk from the pier and Terminus Road; the other is at Hampden Park, the suburb built around its own railway station a mile and a quarter north. Nothing covers Langney, Old Town or Sovereign Harbour, where Ladbrokes and Coral trade instead.
For visitors, 22 Cornfield Road is the one to know: a minute from Eastbourne railway station, a couple from the Beacon centre and Terminus Road, and about a quarter of a mile from the pier and the seafront. It is open until 22:00 six days a week, though it is also the earlier of the two to shut on a Sunday, at 20:00. The Hampden Park branch is the better bet on a Sunday evening and the nearer of the two to Priory Lane, home of Eastbourne Borough, and to the Eastbourne tennis at Devonshire Park it is about a mile further than the town-centre shop.
Frequently asked questions
- How many Betfred shops are there in Eastbourne?
- Two, both licensed by Eastbourne Borough Council: 22 Cornfield Road in the town centre, a minute from the station, and 34 Framfield Way at Hampden Park, about a mile and a quarter north. Both publish full weekly times. Bexhill-on-Sea, twelve miles east, has two more under its own post town.
- What time does Betfred open in Eastbourne?
- Cornfield Road opens at 08:30 Monday to Saturday and Hampden Park at 09:00. Both open at 09:00 on a Sunday. Neither branch varies its opening time between weekdays and Saturday.
- What time does Betfred close in Eastbourne?
- Both close at 22:00 Monday to Saturday. On a Sunday they part company: Hampden Park trades until 21:00 and Cornfield Road only until 20:00, so the suburban shop is the later of the two.
- Which Betfred in Eastbourne is open latest on a Sunday?
- Hampden Park, at 21:00 — an hour later than the town-centre shop, which closes at 20:00. Both open at 09:00, so on a Sunday the Framfield Way branch trades twelve hours against Cornfield Road’s eleven.
- 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 Eastbourne open on bank holidays?
- Yes, and in a seaside resort the May and August bank holidays are among the busiest days of the year. 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 Eastbourne station, the pier and Priory Lane?
- 22 Cornfield Road is the closest to all three of the town-centre draws: Eastbourne railway station is a minute away, Terminus Road and the Beacon centre a couple more, and the pier and seafront about a quarter of a mile. For Eastbourne Borough at Priory Lane in Langney, the Hampden Park branch is the nearer of the two at roughly a mile and a half.
- How do I find the nearest Betfred to me in Eastbourne?
- 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 Eastbourne Betfred shops.