Clocktower Cars runs licensed taxis, minicabs and private hire cars across Fetcham and the KT22 postcode. Our office is at Bookham railway station — 1.9 miles and about five minutes away, which makes Fetcham one of the best-covered villages we serve. Call 01372 727 727 or book online.
Written out in full, because people search for the digits rather than the words. 01372 727 727 rings the Bookham office — a real office on the station forecourt, not a call centre — and it is the same team that covers Fetcham, Bookham, Leatherhead and Dorking.
Fetcham is a suburban village in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, west of Leatherhead and on the other side of the River Mole, with a mill pond, springs and an associated nature reserve. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 7,996 across 9.72 square kilometres. The postcode district is KT22.
All four words, one thing. In law a taxi, or hackney carriage, can be hailed in the street; a minicab or private hire car must be booked with a licensed operator first. Clocktower Cars is a private hire operator, so every Fetcham job is a booking — which is why you get a named driver, a known car and a price agreed before you set off. Our guide to minicabs versus black cabs covers the distinction properly.
Fetcham has no station of its own. The nearest are Leatherhead, Bookham, and Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon — and this is the thing that defines local car travel here, because all three are a drive rather than a walk, and which one you want depends on where you are going rather than which is closest.
Via Lower Road, or 1.7 miles via Cobham Road. The busiest of the three and the one most Fetcham commuters use. A car door to platform beats parking and walking on almost any weekday morning, and it removes the daily gamble on the station car park.
Via Lower Road and Church Road. Quieter than Leatherhead, and our office is on the station itself, so a Bookham pick-up is about as short a dispatch as we ever run. Bookham taxis and minicabs has the detail.
North-west up the A245 Cobham Road, on a different line. Worth knowing about when engineering work closes one route and not the other — a fact that turns a ruined Sunday into a twenty-minute detour.
A car to the platform at ten past six, and a car waiting when the last train gets in, are two of the most ordinary bookings we take in KT22. Either can be set up as a standing arrangement rather than booked afresh each time — ring 01372 727 727 and ask.
Fetcham is unusual, and in a way that is worth knowing before you book. Heathrow is 23.9 miles away. Gatwick is 23.8. Almost every other village in Surrey is markedly closer to one than the other; Fetcham sits almost exactly between them, and Gatwick is the marginally quicker of the two.
| From Fetcham to | Route | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | M25 and M23 | 23.8 miles | about 30 minutes |
| Gatwick Airport | A24 | 19.4 miles | about 35 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | M25 | 23.9 miles | about 32 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | A245 and M25 | 21.9 miles | about 35 minutes |
| Heathrow Airport | Lower Road and M25 | 24.0 miles | about 38 minutes |
| Leatherhead station | Lower Road | 1.5 miles | about 5 minutes |
| Bookham station (our office) | Lower Road and Church Road | 1.9 miles | about 5 minutes |
Look at the first two lines. Straight down the A24 it is 19.4 miles and about 35 minutes. Round on the M25 and M23 it is 23.8 miles and about 30. Four and a half miles further, five minutes quicker — because the A24 route is roundabouts and a town and the motorway route is not.
The same thing happens going to Heathrow: 21.9 miles via the A245 takes about 35 minutes, and 23.9 miles via the M25 takes about 32.
This is the clearest example of it we have measured anywhere in Surrey, and it is exactly why we quote the job instead of the mileage. A per-mile rate would charge you more for the quicker road and less for the slower one. You would be paying a premium to arrive late.
About half an hour on the motorway route. For comparison, on the same day Google’s public transport options for the same journey came out at about 1 hour 7 minutes — and that is before anyone carries a case over a footbridge at Leatherhead. See Gatwick airport transfers.
About 32 minutes via the M25, anticlockwise from junction 9 or 10 depending on the morning. Book the day before for a weekday flight, and earlier for anything departing between five and eight.
All longer, all M25, and all jobs where the hour of departure matters more than the distance. Luton and Stansted transfers from KT22 are booked the same way; our airport transfers page covers the rest.
On the way home you can be met inside the terminal with a name board — our meet and greet chauffeur service. Give us the flight number when you book the return and we move the pick-up with the inbound, so an hour on the tarmac is not an hour of waiting charges.
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.
Fetcham’s mill pond and springs, with the nature reserve beside them, are the village’s defining feature. The springs still supply potable tap water, and they kept running through the droughts of 1976 and 2006 when a good deal else did not. For a driver they are a pick-up point with no house number, so give us a gate, a car park or a road junction and we will meet you there.
St Mary’s has been a place of Christian worship for over a thousand years, with fabric from the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods. Fetcham Park House, an eighteenth-century mansion, stands in the Conservation Area. Between them they produce a steady run of weddings, funerals and functions — all the same booking problem: several cars, one timing, guests who do not know the lanes.
The Mole marks the village’s eastern boundary, and Leatherhead is on the far bank. In practice that means most Fetcham journeys cross the river within the first mile, and it means the bridges are where the delays are. A driver who works KT22 daily knows which crossing is behaving at half past eight; a satnav taking the first suggestion does not.
The part-dualled A246 runs east to west and the A245 Cobham Road runs north; the M25 is about three miles from the village. That is why both airports come out at under thirty-five minutes despite being nearly twenty-four miles away — almost all of the distance is motorway.
Fetcham Infants School takes children from four to seven and Oakfield Junior School takes 256 pupils aged seven to eleven. Secondary journeys go out of the village — mostly into Leatherhead, Bookham and Ashtead — on roads that cross the Mole at exactly the hour the bridges are worst.
Set it up once — a named set of drivers, an agreed pick-up point, a monthly invoice — rather than booking every morning. Every driver on school work is licensed and DBS checked. See our school run chauffeur service.
Ramp-equipped wheelchair accessible vehicles across KT22, with drivers trained to secure a chair properly rather than improvise. There are fewer accessible cars than saloons, so give as much notice as you can — a day for a local run, longer for an airport 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.
With the nature reserve, the Mole and open country on three sides, this is dog territory — and not every private hire driver will take one. 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.
Being three miles from the M25 and half an hour from both airports makes Fetcham a sensible base for business travel, and an account turns that into something you do not have to think about.
Hospital journeys from Fetcham run mostly to Epsom, to Dorking, or across to Guildford, and they share a 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 01372 727 727.
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.
People searching for storage, car servicing or IT services in Fetcham sometimes land here. We are none of those. Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator: a car with a driver, booked by the journey, the hour or the day. We do not rent self-drive vehicles, store anything, or fix cars.
If what you actually want is a vehicle at your disposal for a day — meetings, viewings, a family occasion — that is a booking we take, and it comes with somebody to do the driving and the parking. Ring 01372 727 727 and describe the day.
01372 727 727 reaches the Bookham office, five minutes up the road. Use the phone for anything out of the ordinary: an accessible vehicle, an early airport run, a group, a pet, a day booking, an account.
The booking form takes the whole job at once, day or night — the easier route for a straightforward airport transfer booked a week ahead.
Every office we run is listed on find us and the branch locator.
01372 727 727, which rings our office at Bookham railway station, 1.9 miles from the village. You can also book online at any hour.
Leatherhead, at 1.5 miles and about five minutes, is the nearest and busiest. Bookham is 1.9 miles and about five minutes, and Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon is the third option, on a different line — useful when engineering work closes one route and not the other.
23.8 miles via the M25 and M23, typically about 30 minutes. Straight down the A24 is shorter at 19.4 miles but slower at about 35 minutes. On the same day, public transport came out at about 1 hour 7 minutes.
23.9 miles via the M25, typically about 32 minutes. A shorter route via the A245 is 21.9 miles and takes about 35. Heathrow and Gatwick are within a tenth of a mile of each other from Fetcham, which is unusual.
By road it genuinely does not matter — 23.9 miles to Heathrow and 23.8 to Gatwick, with Gatwick about two minutes quicker. Choose on the flight, not the journey. Almost nowhere else in Surrey gives you that choice.
In everyday use, yes. In law a taxi or hackney carriage can be hailed in the street, while a minicab or private hire car must be booked with a licensed operator first. We are a private hire operator, so every journey is booked before the car sets off — which is what gives you a named driver and an agreed price.
No. We are a private hire taxi and minicab operator — a car with a driver. We do not rent self-drive vehicles, run storage or service cars. If what you want is a car and driver for a whole day, that is a booking we take; ring 01372 727 727.
Yes, ramp-equipped vehicles with trained drivers, booked in advance. 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.
Yes. Regular runs to Fetcham Infants, Oakfield Junior and the secondary schools in Leatherhead, Bookham and Ashtead are set up as standing arrangements with named, DBS-checked drivers and a monthly invoice.
Yes — a car and driver at your disposal for meetings, viewings, a funeral or a family occasion. Ring 01372 727 727 and describe the day and we will quote it.
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. Around here a mileage rate would be actively misleading: the shortest road to Gatwick is five minutes slower than the longest. Ring 01372 727 727 or use the booking form and you will have a price before you travel.
Licensed drivers, an office 1.9 miles up the road, real knowledge of the Mole crossings and the M25 junctions, and a price agreed before you get in. Call 01372 727 727 or book your Fetcham taxi online.
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