The friendly little bus service serving the town of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Hop on - Hop off!
Our HH1 service runs Monday to Friday, morning and afternoon, with a ‘hail and ride’ service - meaning you can board anywhere along our route.
Everyone can ride!
Fares are £2 for adults, £1 children, (babies travel free)
All fares include a return journey on the same day
We also accept concessionary tickets (including pensioners’ bus passes)
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WE’RE AWARE OF TWO SETS OF SIGNIFICANT ROADWORKS TODAY (MONDAY 15TH):
TEMPORARY TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON REDBOURN LANE ARE CAUSING DELAYS TO OUR TIMETABLE OF ABOUT 20 MINUTES (APART FROM THE FIRST RUN IN FROM KINSBOURNE GREEN INTO THE TOWN CENTRE), AND
BULL ROAD/SOUTHDOWN ROAD IS CLOSED FROM 15TH SEPT TO 3RD OCT - WE WILL OPERATE A DIVERSION - SEE BELOW FOR THE DETAILS. WE WILL PROVIDE UPDATED INFORMATION ONCE WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW THE HOPPER ROUTE IS AFFECTED.
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HOPPER PASSENGERS TEA PARTY TOOK PLACE ON WED 13TH AUGUST - WHAT A GREAT DAY!
Our 3rd consecutive annual tea-party for Hopper passengers took place on 13 August. Thank you to our lovely passengers who came and indulged in tea, coffee and some delicious home-made cakes. Four cakes were made by Penny and one by Jude - two of our volunteer drivers, and there was also a chocolate cake and some cookies made by regular passenger, Melinda with a whole tray of bread pudding made by passenger, John, from Eastmoor Park.
There were around 60 of our passengers plus many of the drivers too.
We all had a good chat and listened to some updates from our Chair, Andy Buchanan.
Councillor Terry Heritage, now Mayor of the City and District of St Albans attended too. Terry is also a Trustee of Harpenden Connect Limited, the charity that operates the Harpenden Hopper community minibus service.
Madeleine Clark, who is the Community Services Manager for Harpenden Town Council also came along. Madeleine spent a whole morning on the Harpenden Hopper a few weeks ago, listening and talking to many of our passengers.
Follow this link to the NEWS SECTION for more details:
Tea-party - 13 August 2025 — Harpenden Hopper
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SEE THE PHOTO GALLERY FROM THE TEA PARTY:
Welcome aboard the
Harpenden Hopper
Any route issues or news?
Week commencing Monday 15th September 2025
A normal schedule is in operation this week.
Please note the following:
There are roadworks in REDBOURN LANE with 4-way temporary traffic lights that are spilling over onto St Albans Road. They are causing an approximate delay of 20 minutes to the Hopper timetable (apart from the first run in morning & afternoon from Kinsbourne Green. The works are scheduled until 19th September.
BULL ROAD will be closed from 15th September to 3rd October for roadworks. Depending on how this affects Southdown Road, the Hopper route will either divert up Piggotts Hill Lane, Topstreet Way, Milton Road and Station Road, or it will divert along Crabtree Lane to Milton Road and then Station Road and back to the High Street. We will provide an update once we can see what is happening on the ground on 15th September.
The 3rd annual Hopper passengers’ tea-party took place on Wednesday 13th August. We were delighted to see so many of our customers chatting, drinking tea or coffee and indulging in some of the delicious home-made cakes (made by Penny (mostly) and Jude - two of the drivers as well as some made by Melinda and John - both regular passengers).
See above for more details and link to the photo gallery.
Everyone remarked what a wonderful morning we all had.
