The county
What each part of the county actually does to a removal van — which centres are tight, where the parking falls apart, and which lanes want a smaller vehicle.
Northamptonshire is a county of market towns rather than one dominant city, and that shapes the work. There is no single centre everything revolves around — Northampton is the largest, but Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough each generate their own moves, and a great deal of what we do is village-to-town or town-to-village rather than across a city.
This page is the honest version, town by town, at the altitude this site works at.
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.
Beyond the county
Northamptonshire touches more counties than almost anywhere in England, which means a great many moves here are cross-border by the time the day is done.
Further than a neighbouring county? That is long-distance work, and the county's position on the M1 and A14 makes it straightforward. Leaving the country entirely is covered on the European removals hub.
Not as a line item, but access changes how long a job takes and time is part of any quote. A lane that needs a shuttle costs more than a driveway you can back onto, and we tell you which of those you are before quoting rather than afterwards.
For access, yes — it has the narrowest streets and the most listed frontages in the county. We survey Oundle properties in person rather than on video, because a photograph does not tell you what a stone lane does to a wing mirror.
Yes, in both directions. Plenty of moves here cross into Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire or Oxfordshire before the day is out, and that is an ordinary booking rather than an exception.
Where a suspended bay is possible we apply to the relevant council on your behalf and build the notice period into the schedule. Where it is not, we plan a shuttle from the nearest workable point. Either way you know which before the day.
A county one. Northampton is the biggest share of the work because it is the biggest town, but Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough and everywhere else are ordinary bookings rather than trips out.
Then we already know most of what we need to about the access. Send both addresses and we will do the rest.