House, flat, man-and-van and office moves across the whole of Northamptonshire — Northampton and Corby to the ironstone villages and the stone lanes of Oundle. And because the M1, the A14 and the A45 meet here, a long run to anywhere else in the country starts easily.
Every quote starts as one of these. Nothing is priced from a postcode and a room count alone.
How a move runs
There is nothing clever about it. A survey, a written scope, protection down before anything is carried, and the same crew from the first box to the last. Almost every complaint anybody has about a removal firm is one of those four missing.
The county
Northamptonshire is not one housing stock. A boot-and-shoe terrace in Rushden, a stone cottage outside Oundle and a four-bed on a Corby estate need different crews, different vehicles and different amounts of time — and quoting them the same way is how a firm ends up asking for more at the door.
The order of things
The survey is the one people want to skip and the one that decides everything else. It takes very little of your time and it is the only reason a written quote can be firm.
Why the county matters
Six things we actually plan around when a job comes in, wherever in the county it is.
Northampton, Rushden, Kettering and Wellingborough all grew around the shoe trade, and the streets built for the people who worked in it are still there — long rows of terraces with narrow halls, no driveways and resident parking that fills early. Most of them need a suspension arranged or a shuttle planned, and we sort that rather than discovering it on the morning.
The villages are the county at its best and the hardest access we deal with. Narrow lanes with passing places, gateposts set for a cart, gravel that defeats wheels which work perfectly on tarmac. The approach gets looked at before a vehicle is committed to it.
The growth around Northampton and Corby means a large share of our work is modern housing. Access is usually straightforward — until the estate road has cars both sides. The real variable here is volume: a new three-bed with a garage and a loft holds far more than people estimate.
Towcester, Oundle, Higham Ferrers and Brackley all have a historic core that a full-size vehicle has to think about. In Oundle particularly we survey in person rather than on video, because a photograph does not tell you what a stone lane does to a wing mirror.
The M1 runs down the west of the county, the A14 crosses the north and the A45 links the middle. It is why Northamptonshire is full of distribution sheds, and it is why a move from here to London, Leeds or Bristol is an ordinary day rather than an expedition.
Full pack, part pack or materials dropped off in advance. And containerised storage for the gap that appears when a chain moves — which it does often enough that we treat it as part of the service rather than as a rescue.
What we do
Terraces, semis, village stone and new build.
Whole-home moves anywhere in the county, with a named crew, furniture wrapped in the room it stands in, and a written scope agreed before the day.
Read more →Town-centre conversions and modern blocks.
Stairs, shared entrances and loading bays planned first, because the route out decides a flat move far more than the amount of furniture does.
Read more →Single rooms, part loads, one awkward item.
One or two people and a van sized to the job, priced by the work rather than by a clock that runs while you watch it.
Read more →Units, offices, shops and workshops.
Out-of-hours relocations across the county with kit crated and labelled by desk, and the building paperwork sorted before the doors open.
Read more →Central England, so everywhere is reachable.
The M1, A14 and A45 meet here, which makes the county a natural base for one-way moves to London, the North, Scotland and the West Country.
Read more →Northamptonshire to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal.
Road moves out via the M1 and the M25 to the Channel, with the customs paperwork prepared on your behalf.
Read more →Coverage
The biggest job list on our books. Victorian terraces in Abington and Kingsthorpe, the town-centre conversions, and a very large amount of new build on the southern and western edges. Two quite different kinds of move in one town.
Post-war estates laid out on a generous grid, plus a steady stream of new build. Access is usually the easy part; the volume people have accumulated in a three-bed with a garage is usually not.
Victorian and Edwardian terraces close to the centre, interwar semis further out, and villages on every side of it. A good share of our Kettering work is a move from a terrace into a village.
Older stock near the centre with the usual terraced-street parking question, and substantial newer development towards the east. Man-and-van work is proportionally higher here than anywhere else in the county.
Another of the old boot-and-shoe towns, with the terraced streets that came with the trade. Modern estates on the fringes, and the A6 and A45 make it an easy town to reach from either direction.
A compact centre with a lot of post-war and modern housing around it, and the M1 within a few minutes at junction 16 or 18. Long-distance jobs out of Daventry start faster than from almost anywhere else in the county.
Georgian frontages on the old Watling Street line, stone cottages, and modern development spreading south. Some of the centre is narrow enough that a Luton needs thinking about.
The far south-west corner, closer to Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire than to Northampton in feel. Stone buildings, a wide market street, and a lot of moves that cross a county boundary.
Limestone, narrow lanes and listed frontages in the middle. Beautiful, and the tightest access in the county — these are the jobs where we survey in person rather than on video.
Stone and brick around the market square, newer housing beyond it, and effectively one town with Rushden for moving purposes. Short local moves dominate.
Plus every village between them — and the border work, because plenty of moves here cross into Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire or Oxfordshire before the day is out.
Long distance
Northamptonshire sits where the M1, the A14 and the A45 meet. It is why the county is full of distribution sheds, and it is why a long one-way move out of here is an ordinary booking rather than a special arrangement.
Long-distance movesLeaving the country
Four routes by road, with the customs paperwork prepared before you travel. From here it is the M1 to the M25 and down to the Channel — a straightforward start to a long journey.
European removalsM1 to the M25, down to the Channel, and the autoroute from Calais. The closest of the four and the one the county sends most people to.
Northamptonshire to France →Down through France and in at Irun or Le Perthus. The Costas, Valencia and the villages inland.
Northamptonshire to Spain →Over the Alps to Lombardy and Piedmont, or down the spine to Tuscany and Le Marche.
Northamptonshire to Italy →The long one — France, northern Spain, then the Algarve, Lisbon or the Silver Coast.
Northamptonshire to Portugal →More on the FAQ page — packing, storage, pianos, insurance and what we will not put in the van.
The whole of Northamptonshire. Northampton is the largest share of the work simply because it is the largest town, but Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden, Daventry, Towcester, Brackley, Oundle and the villages between them are all ordinary bookings rather than exceptions.
Volume, distance, access and how much packing you want us to do. Access matters more than people expect — a stone cottage in Oundle with a narrow lane and a terrace in Rushden with resident parking are different jobs from a new-build in Corby with a driveway, even with identical furniture.
Regularly. Northamptonshire sits where the M1, the A14 and the A45 meet, which makes it one of the easier counties in England to move out of in any direction. London, the North, Scotland and the West Country are all routine one-way runs rather than special arrangements.
Yes, and they are a real part of county work. Ironstone and limestone villages come with narrow lanes, gateposts set close together and the occasional gravel drive that defeats a wheel. We look at the approach before committing a vehicle rather than discovering it at the gate.
Straightforward for access and frequently underestimated for volume. A three-bed new build with a garage and a loft holds a surprising amount, and the estate roads are often narrower than they look once cars are parked both sides. We survey properly either way.
Send us the two addresses and a rough idea of what is coming. We will arrange a look at the access and come back with something written.