Clocktower Cars runs licensed taxis, minicabs and private hire cars throughout Kingswood, Surrey and the KT20 postcode. The cars come from our Reigate office — 4.8 miles and about eleven minutes down the A217 — and the number is a local 01737 one. Call 01737 333 700 or book online.
That is the number, printed here rather than buried in a button, because people search for it. 01737 333 700 reaches a person, not a queue, and it is the same office that covers Tadworth, Banstead, Burgh Heath, Chipstead and Reigate itself.
This page is about Kingswood in Surrey, postcode KT20, on the North Downs in the borough of Reigate and Banstead. Reigate is 3.6 miles (5.8 km) south of its centre, and London is 15.5 miles (24.9 km) to the north north-east. Kingswood with Burgh Heath had a population of 6,891 at the 2011 Census.
It is worth saying plainly, because there is a Kingswood near Bristol, a Kingswood near Watford and a Knightswood in Glasgow, and all of them turn up in the same searches. If you want a car in KT20, between Banstead and Reigate, you are on the right page. We do not operate in Bristol, Watford or Glasgow.
In Kingswood people ask for all four and mean the same thing. In law a taxi, or hackney carriage, can be hailed in the street; a minicab or private hire vehicle must be booked through a licensed operator before the journey begins. Clocktower Cars is a private hire operator, so every Kingswood job is a booking — which is why you get a named driver, a known car and a price agreed before you travel. Our guide to minicabs versus black cabs sets out the difference in full.
KT20 covers Kingswood, Burgh Heath, Tadworth and Walton-on-the-Hill. It is one postcode district spread across a lot of open downland, which is exactly why a car matters more here than it does in a town — the walk between two KT20 addresses can be a mile and a half of unlit lane.
Kingswood is one of the best-placed villages in Surrey for Gatwick and one of the worst for Heathrow, and the gap is large enough to change how you plan a journey.
| From Kingswood (KT20) to | Route | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | M23 | 16.3 miles | about 22 minutes |
| Gatwick Airport | Outwood Lane / B2032 and M23 | 16.9 miles | about 27 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | M25 | 31.6 miles | about 40 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | Brighton Road / A217 and M25 | 33.5 miles | about 41 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | B2033 and M25 | 31.3 miles | about 44 minutes |
| Reigate (our office) | Brighton Road / A217 | 4.8 miles | about 11 minutes |
Sixteen miles, about twenty-two minutes, nearly all of it motorway once you are on the M23. For a village this far up on the Downs that is an unusually short airport run, and it is the reason a booked car is so often quicker door to door than the train — the rail route to Gatwick from KT20 means a change, and the walk to the station at either end.
Full detail on our Gatwick airport transfers page. Give us the flight number and we will track the inbound on the return leg.
Thirty-one miles and about forty minutes, anticlockwise round the M25 from junction 8. It is nearly double the distance of Gatwick and nearly double the time, so a Heathrow departure out of Kingswood needs a genuinely earlier pick-up, not a slightly earlier one. Book it the day before at least, and earlier for a flight before eight in the morning.
Look again at the three Heathrow lines in the table. The B2033 route is the shortest at 31.3 miles and takes about 44 minutes. The A217 route is the longest at 33.5 miles and takes about 41. The M25 route sits between them on distance and is the quickest at about 40.
Two miles of difference, four minutes the other way round. This is the single clearest reason we quote a job rather than a mileage: a per-mile rate would charge you most for the fastest route and least for the slowest, which is exactly backwards from what you actually want.
All three are long runs from KT20 and all three are jobs where the departure hour matters more than the distance, because the whole journey is M25 or cross-London. Luton and Stansted transfers are booked the same way; ring 01737 333 700 and we will tell you honestly what the morning is likely to do to the timing. Our general airport transfers page covers the rest.
Coming home, you can be met inside the terminal with a name board instead of finding a pick-up bay with a trolley. That is our meet and greet chauffeur service, and it is worth the small extra on a late Gatwick landing.
We quote the job, not the mileage, and the table above shows why. Four things move the number.
Tell the office where, when, how many and how much luggage. You get a price for that job, and it does not change while you are in the car.
Kingswood railway station sits on the Tattenham Corner branch, 20 miles 72 chains (33.6 km) from London Charing Cross, in London fare zone 6, operated by Southern. It opened on 2 November 1897 as Kingswood and Burgh Heath. Journey times run to about 42 minutes to London Bridge and 23 minutes to East Croydon.
There is a building on the up side only — platform 1 — with just a metal shelter on the down side, platform 2. The ticket office and waiting area open during the weekday morning peak; the upper floors of the building are offices. On a wet January evening, arriving on the sheltered side or the unsheltered one is the whole difference, so tell the office which platform you will come off and we will meet you there.
Off-peak there are two trains an hour to London Bridge, non-stop from Norwood Junction, and two an hour to Tattenham Corner. On Sundays the service drops to hourly and runs only between Tattenham Corner and Purley, so a London journey means changing at Purley.
That single fact generates more Sunday bookings from this part of the Downs than anything else — it is the same gap that affects Tadworth and Chipstead. If your Sunday depends on getting somewhere at a fixed time, a car is the simpler answer, and it is worth booking on the Saturday.
The other end of the branch is Tattenham Corner, the station for Epsom Downs racecourse. On Derby day and Oaks day the branch fills, the lanes around the Downs fill behind it, and both get worse on the way out than on the way in. Book the return before you go rather than after the last race; it is the difference between leaving and queueing.
Kingswood is a residential area on the North Downs rather than a high street with a rank, which means precise pick-up points matter more here than in a town. A few landmarks do most of the work.
Kingswood Warren is the garden estate of south Upper Kingswood, built around a battlemented gothic mansion that housed the BBC’s Research and Development department from 1948 to 2010; Octagon Developments completed the purchase of the house on 1 March 2010. The estate roads are long, wooded and easy to mistake for one another in the dark — give us a house name or number rather than the road alone.
Kingswood Golf and Country Club is in the village, and there is a second eighteen-hole club on what was Eyhurst Park. Walton Heath is a short run west. Golf is one of the steadier bookings we take here: a car out in the morning with clubs in an estate boot, and a car back in the afternoon when nobody wants to be the designated driver. Ring 01737 333 700 the day before for a society or a society dinner and we will hold the cars.
St Andrew’s was built between 1848 and 1852 and is an exact copy of the fourteenth-century church at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire. Down the hill at Lower Kingswood, the Church of Jesus Christ and the Wisdom of God is a Grade I listed Anglican church built in the Byzantine style and unique in Europe. Both generate the same kind of booking — weddings, funerals, a carload of relatives who do not know the lanes.
The A217 bisects the ward and junction 8 of the M25 is a few minutes away. That is what makes Gatwick twenty-two minutes and it is also what makes some of the local roads busier than a village this size would suggest. A driver who works KT20 knows which of the Brighton Road junctions is worth avoiding at half past eight.
People here search for a cab near me, a local minicab near me, the nearest cabs, a cab firm near me. It is a sensible instinct with one flaw: on the Downs, a car that happens to be parked nearby is not the same as a car that knows where you are going.
What near me should mean is a local number, local drivers and a person on the end of the phone. Ours is 01737 333 700, an 01737 Reigate number, answered by an office 4.8 miles away. Every office we run is listed on find us and the branch locator.
Kingswood generates more chauffeur work than a village of seven thousand people normally would, for the obvious reason: it is twenty minutes from Gatwick, half an hour from the City by train, and full of households that need a car to behave like a car rather than like a lift.
An executive car, a driver in a suit who does not make conversation unless you start it, and a car that is clean on the inside as well as the outside. It is used for client collections, board meetings, weddings, and any journey where arriving matters as much as getting there. See executive travel in Surrey and our corporate chauffeur service.
Kingswood Primary School takes children from two to thirteen, and Aberdour School is close by. Secondary and sixth-form journeys go out of the village altogether, mostly down the A217 or across to Banstead and Epsom, and they go at exactly the hour those roads are worst.
Set it up once — a named set of drivers, an agreed pick-up point, a single monthly invoice — rather than booking every morning. All drivers on school work are licensed and DBS checked. Details on our school run chauffeur service page.
We run ramp-equipped wheelchair accessible vehicles across KT20, with drivers trained to secure a chair properly rather than improvise. There are fewer accessible cars than saloons, so these journeys want booking further ahead — a day for a local run, longer for a Gatwick transfer at a busy hour.
Say on the phone whether the chair is manual or powered; the ramp and the anchor points differ. See our certified and trained wheelchair accessible minicab service, or call 01737 333 700 to check a date.
Not every private hire driver will take a dog, which is awkward in a village with this much downland and this many of them. We keep drivers who will and we match them to the booking rather than leaving it to chance at the kerb. Tell us the size of the animal and whether it travels in a carrier. See pet friendly taxis.
Hospital journeys from Kingswood mostly run to East Surrey at Redhill, to Epsom, or into Croydon, and they all have the same shape: a fixed arrival time at the front and an unknown finish at the back. We book both halves — an outward leg to the appointment, and a return that waits for your call rather than a guessed time.
Drivers will help to the door where that is needed. More on reliable transport for medical appointments, or ring 01737 333 700 to set up a course of appointments in one call.
The same cars carry documents and packages when they are not carrying people — a same-day run into London, a legal pack against a deadline, something breakable that should not go through a depot. See same day courier in Surrey.
01737 333 700. Use the phone for anything out of the ordinary: an accessible vehicle, an early Gatwick run, a group, a pet, a chauffeur car, an account.
The booking form takes the whole job at once, day or night, and is the easier route for a straightforward airport transfer booked a week ahead.
The Reigate office covers this whole stretch of the Downs. If your journey starts or finishes in one of these, it is the same phone call.
Lower Kingswood and Walton-on-the-Hill are covered from the same office. The full list of the places we serve is on the branch locator.
01737 333 700. It is an 01737 Reigate number and it reaches the office that covers Kingswood, Tadworth, Burgh Heath, Banstead and Chipstead. You can also book online at any hour.
Surrey. We cover Kingswood in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, postcode KT20, on the North Downs between Banstead and Reigate. We do not operate in Kingswood near Bristol, Kingswood near Watford, or Knightswood in Glasgow.
16.3 miles via the M23, typically about 22 minutes. An alternative down Outwood Lane and the B2032 is 16.9 miles and about 27 minutes. Gatwick is comfortably the nearer of the two main airports from KT20.
31.6 miles via the M25, typically about 40 minutes — roughly double the Gatwick journey in both distance and time. Two other routes exist: 33.5 miles via the A217 at about 41 minutes, and 31.3 miles via the B2033 at about 44. The shortest of the three is the slowest.
Yes — Kingswood, Burgh Heath, Tadworth, Walton-on-the-Hill and Lower Kingswood, all from the Reigate office, which is 4.8 miles and about eleven minutes from Kingswood station down the A217.
A licensed private hire operator, which is what most people mean by a minicab or cab firm. A taxi or hackney carriage can be hailed in the street; a private hire car must be booked with an operator first. In practice that means every Kingswood job has a named driver, a known car and a price agreed before you travel.
Yes, and it helps to say which platform. The station building and shelter are on platform 1, the up side; platform 2 has only a metal shelter. Tell us your train and we will be waiting on the right side of the line.
On Sundays the Tattenham Corner branch drops to an hourly service running only between Tattenham Corner and Purley, so any London journey means changing at Purley. It is the main reason Sunday is a busy day for cars from this village. Book on the Saturday if your Sunday has a fixed time in it.
Yes, and ask for an estate if you are carrying clubs. Kingswood Golf and Country Club, the course on the old Eyhurst Park land and Walton Heath nearby all produce the same booking — out in the morning, back in the afternoon, and nobody wanting to drive after a society dinner. Ring 01737 333 700 the day before and we will hold the cars.
Yes, ramp-equipped vehicles with trained drivers, booked in advance. Because there are fewer of them than saloons, give as much notice as you can, and say whether the chair is manual or powered.
Yes, with a pet friendly taxi booked in advance. Tell us the size of the animal and whether it travels in a carrier, and we will match the job to a driver who takes pets.
It depends on the journey, the hour, the size of car and whether there is waiting or meeting involved, which is why we quote the job rather than publish a mileage rate. On this village’s roads a mileage rate would be actively misleading: the shortest route to Heathrow is also the slowest. Ring 01737 333 700 or use the booking form and you will have a price before you travel.
Licensed drivers, a local 01737 number, real knowledge of KT20 and the Downs, and a price agreed before you get in. Call 01737 333 700 or book your Kingswood taxi online.
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