The Cheam taxi number is 0208 330 1234. Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator covering Cheam Village, South Cheam, Nonsuch and the roads either side of the A232, twenty-four hours a day. The cars are dispatched from our Chessington office. Our Epsom head office is 01372 747 747 if you would rather ring the main switchboard.
People in Cheam say Cheam cars at least as often as they say taxi, and quite a few still say station cars. Cheam cars, Cheam taxis, Cheam cabs, Cheam minicabs, station cars — different words, one office, one number. Whether you want a taxi in Cheam for the 07:40 to Victoria, cabs in Cheam for a Gatwick flight, minicabs in Cheam for a hospital appointment or a wheelchair taxi in Cheam, it is the same booking. Book online or call for a fixed quote first.
Three ways to book a Cheam taxi
1. Call — 0208 330 1234, answered around the clock by a person.
2. Book online — get a fixed quote and confirm in about a minute, day or night.
3. App — book, track the car and save your regular Cheam addresses. Details on our find us page.
Cheam is the opposite of most of the towns we cover. The station sits about 200 metres south of Cheam High Street, between Cheam Village and South Cheam — so close that the short station run, which is the biggest single booking in Dorking or Banstead, barely exists here.
What the station gives Cheam instead is options. Off-peak it runs roughly:
That is four trains an hour into central London on two different lines, from a station in fare zone 5, 200 metres from the shops. It is the reason Cheam is what it is.
Three things, in order of how often we do them:
The approach roads around Cheam station are residential and tight. Tell us your train’s arrival time rather than your ticket time and we will bring the car in as you come off the platform rather than sit blocking somebody’s driveway.
Three names, three places, and they are not the same:
Saying “Cheam Village” or “North Cheam” rather than just “Cheam” takes a second and removes the only real ambiguity in this part of the borough.
This is where Cheam taxis earn their keep, and the numbers are more interesting than you would expect.
About 18 miles and roughly 32 minutes on the M23, or 19.7 miles and about the same time down the A217. Two routes, near-identical times, which is a comfortable position when one of them closes.
More on the terminals and pickup points on our Gatwick airport transfers page.
Here is the figure that surprises everybody in Cheam:
Heathrow is closer than Gatwick and takes nineteen minutes longer. The A308 route crosses Kingston, Hampton and the river through a string of town centres with no motorway anywhere; Gatwick is one clean run down the M23. The alternative to Heathrow via the A3 is 23 miles and about 53 minutes, so it is no better.
Two practical conclusions. If your flight goes from either airport, Gatwick is the easier one from Cheam by a wide margin. And if you are flying from Heathrow, allow the best part of an hour and book the car accordingly — the map will tell you seventeen miles and the map is not wrong, it is just not the point. See our airport transfers page.
More people search for a taxi to Cheam from an airport than away from it, which tells you something about where the pain is. Coming home at the end of a flight, with luggage, possibly at midnight, a pre-booked car does four things a rank cannot:
Stansted and Luton are the long ones, because both mean crossing or skirting London, and the departure time matters far more than the mileage. Southend, London City and the Southampton and Dover cruise terminals are all covered and all quoted in advance.
We do not publish a price list, and the Heathrow figures above explain why better than any argument could. Seventeen miles to Heathrow takes fifty-one minutes; eighteen miles to Gatwick takes thirty-two. Any per-mile rate would be wrong on one of those and misleading on both.
Four things set a fare, and only one of them is distance:
So the useful answer is a quote for your journey, before you commit to anything. Ring 0208 330 1234 or get a fixed price online. If you are comparing cheap taxis in Cheam, compare quotes for the same journey at the same hour — that is where the difference actually shows up.
Cheam’s western edge runs straight into Nonsuch Park, the open ground between Cheam, Stoneleigh and Ewell. It is the site of Nonsuch Palace, which Henry VIII began in 1538 on the demolished village of Cuddington, left unfinished at his death in 1547, and which was pulled down around 1682 to settle gambling debts. Three small stone columns with plaques mark where it stood, and a stretch of reconstructed Tudor retaining wall from the banqueting house survives in the western part of the park. Nonsuch Mansion, Grade II* listed and mid-eighteenth century, stands in the grounds.
The park has been run by Epsom and Sutton councils through a joint management committee since four councils bought the land in 1937, which is a neat summary of where Cheam sits: on the boundary, half London borough and half Surrey in feel.
Nonsuch Mansion takes weddings and functions, and the park approach is not somewhere to improvise a pickup at eleven at night. Book the return with the outbound, tell us the group size so one larger vehicle comes rather than three cars, and agree the collection point in advance.
Dropped at one end of the park and collected at the other beats doubling back to a car. Pre-book both ends — the collection point usually has no passing trade at all.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles across Cheam and the surrounding borough. A wheelchair taxi in Cheam has to be pre-booked rather than hailed — there are only so many accessible vehicles on the road at any hour, and booking ahead is what guarantees one arrives.
Whether the chair folds and the passenger transfers into a seat, or whether it travels occupied with the passenger strapped in — these are different vehicles. Tell us about steps, gravel and narrow gates at both ends as well. Our wheelchair-accessible minicab page sets out the vehicles and the driver training.
St Helier at Carshalton, Epsom General about fifteen minutes away, the Royal Marsden at Belmont a short run south, and the clinics across the borough. The return leg is what people get wrong: book the outbound to a firm time and leave the return open, ringing us when you are actually finished rather than guessing a discharge time. For a course of treatment we can set up a standing booking with the same driver wherever the rota allows. Our medical appointment transport page covers how these run.
Cheam sits in the middle of one of the most selective school districts in the country. Nonsuch High School for Girls is in Cheam itself, and five of the London Borough of Sutton’s state secondaries are grammar schools. Selection means catchment does not apply, and that means children travelling several miles each way, every day, often across the borough line.
We run school taxis in Cheam as standing term-time bookings: same pickup, same time, named regular driver wherever the rota allows. For a child doing the same journey 190 mornings a year, a familiar driver counts for a great deal more than a marginally cheaper fare.
Drivers carrying children are licensed and DBS-checked. Child seats and boosters are provided when requested at the time of booking — tell us the age. Where a child travels unaccompanied we agree in advance exactly who hands over and who receives at each end, and nobody improvises at the gate. Our school run page explains how the contracts work.
Where two or three Cheam families send children to the same school, a shared contract usually makes sense. Ask and we will work out whether the route holds together.
With Nonsuch Park on the doorstep, a fair number of our Cheam passengers have a dog with them. We carry pets when the booking says so — that caveat is the whole point, because a driver told in advance brings a suitable car and no objection, and a driver surprised at the kerbside is a problem for everyone. Tell us the size and whether the animal is crated or loose. Assistance dogs travel as of right. See our pet-friendly taxis page.
Cheam is a commuter village with four trains an hour into town, which means a lot of its residents work somewhere else and travel for a living. We run corporate taxi accounts across the borough.
Staff book without handling money, every journey is itemised, and you get one monthly invoice with cost codes or departments attached. For most firms the saving is in the expense paperwork rather than the fare.
For a client run into the City or Canary Wharf, or a Gatwick collection where the first impression matters, an executive car is the difference between transport and hospitality. We also run a same-day courier service across Surrey for documents and samples that cannot wait for a carrier.
Checked on Google Maps on 25 September 2026 for a clear road. A planning guide, not a promise. When you book we will give you a pickup time that allows for the actual day and hour.
| From Cheam to | Distance | Typical clear-road time | Usual route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | 18.0 miles | about 32 minutes | M23 |
| Gatwick Airport (alternative) | 19.7 miles | about 32 minutes | A217 and M23 |
| Heathrow Airport | 17.3 miles | about 51 minutes | A308 through Kingston |
| Heathrow Airport (alternative) | 23.0 miles | about 53 minutes | A3 |
| Sutton | 1.3 miles | about 6 minutes | A232 |
| Epsom | 3.6 miles | about 15 minutes | A232 and A24 |
Read the two airport rows together. Heathrow is 0.7 miles nearer than Gatwick and nineteen minutes further away. It is the starkest example of this anywhere in our coverage, and it is worth knowing before you book a flight, never mind a car.
Cheam is in the London Borough of Sutton, in the SM3 postcode, on the boundary with Epsom and Ewell in Surrey. We cover the borough and a good way beyond it.
| Area | Where it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
| North Cheam | A mile and a half north, on the A24 | North Cheam minicabs |
| Sutton | 1.3 miles east, the borough’s main town | Sutton taxis |
| Worcester Park | North-west, KT4 | Worcester Park minicabs |
| Belmont | South-east, the Royal Marsden | Belmont taxis |
| Ewell | West, over the Surrey boundary | Ewell cabs |
| Epsom | South-west, 3.6 miles | Epsom taxis |
| Carshalton | East, beyond Sutton | Carshalton taxis |
| Wallington | South-east, towards Croydon | Wallington taxis |
| Banstead | South, up on the Downs | Banstead taxis |
| Chessington | North-west, where the cars are dispatched from | Chessington taxis |
| Dorking | South, and a direct train from Cheam station | Dorking taxis |
Also covered without a page of their own: South Cheam, Nonsuch, Stoneleigh, Cuddington, Stonecot Hill and Rosehill.
Cheam and Epsom are fifteen minutes apart and we cover both from the same system — but if your journey starts and ends in Epsom rather than Cheam, our Epsom taxis page is the one written for you, with the Epsom number, the Clock Tower, Epsom station and Epsom General covered properly. Our head office is in Epsom, so it is home ground.
There is no objective best taxi service in Cheam and we are not going to claim to be it. When you are choosing between Cheam cars firms, this is the short list worth comparing.
It sounds like a small thing until a car is sitting on the A24 at Stonecot Hill while you are outside the library on Cheam High Street. Local controllers know that, know which side of the station you mean, and know that Nonsuch Park has more than one entrance. An algorithm in another city does not.
Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator. Every car is a licensed private hire vehicle, every driver is a licensed private hire driver, and every journey is pre-booked through the office — which is what makes the journey insured. When something goes wrong there is an office to ring and a record of the booking. That matters more at midnight than it sounds at noon.
Ask and you will have a fixed quote before the car is booked. No meter running on the A232, and no surge pricing when it rains.
Our branches run from Kingston and Sutton in the north down through Epsom, Banstead and Reigate to Guildford and Godalming. A booking in Cheam and one in Epsom go through the same system, which matters for school contracts, corporate accounts and anything crossing the borough line. The full list is on our branch locator.
Card in the car, card online, or on account. Say which when you book so the driver is set up for it.
0208 330 1234, answered twenty-four hours a day by a person. 01372 747 747 is our Epsom head office and will also get you a car in Cheam.
It is the old local name for a minicab office that works the station, and people in Cheam still use it. It means the same thing as Cheam cars, Cheam taxis, Cheam cabs or Cheam minicabs — a pre-booked private hire car. Whichever term you searched for, this is the number.
Yes. The office is staffed around the clock and cars run through the night. The honest caveat is that a pre-booked car at four in the morning is guaranteed and an on-demand one is not, because fewer drivers are on at that hour. Early flights and late returns should always be booked ahead.
About 32 minutes for 18 miles on the M23 with a clear road. Allow more at commuter times, and for a flight we build a margin into the pickup time rather than working to the map.
About 51 minutes, even though it is only 17.3 miles. The route crosses Kingston, Hampton and the river with no motorway, so it takes nineteen minutes longer than Gatwick despite being slightly closer. Allow the best part of an hour.
Yes, and it is one of our most common Cheam bookings. We track the flight, so a delay does not cost you the car and an early landing does not leave you waiting. The price is agreed before you fly, and you choose between a driver meeting you inside arrivals with a name board or a cheaper kerbside pickup.
About 200 metres, which is unusually close — the station sits between Cheam Village and South Cheam. Off-peak it runs roughly two trains an hour each to London Victoria, London Bridge, Epsom and Dorking, and it is in fare zone 5.
They are different places about a mile and a half apart. Cheam Village is the High Street and The Broadway around the station; North Cheam is up on the A24 at the Sutton bypass. Say which you mean when you book. North Cheam has its own page: North Cheam minicabs.
In everyday speech, nothing. In licensing terms a hackney carriage can be hailed in the street or taken from a rank, while a private hire vehicle, which is what a minicab is, must be booked in advance through a licensed operator. Clocktower Cars is a private hire operator, so every journey is pre-booked through the office — which is why we cannot be flagged down and why every journey has a record and a clear insurance position behind it. More on our minicab versus black cab page.
Yes, with notice. Tell us whether the chair folds and the passenger transfers or whether it travels occupied, and tell us about steps, gravel or narrow gates at either end.
Yes, when the booking says so. Tell us the size and whether the dog is crated or loose. Assistance dogs travel as of right.
It depends on the route, the time of day, the vehicle and any waiting — which is why we quote for your actual journey rather than publish a table that would be wrong for most of them. Call or get a fixed quote online and you will have a price before you commit.
Call 0208 330 1234
Twenty-four hours a day, answered by a person. Head office: 01372 747 747.
Cheam cars, Cheam taxis, Cheam cabs, Cheam minicabs and station cars — taxis in Cheam, cabs in Cheam, airport transfers in Cheam, hospital journeys, school contracts and wheelchair-accessible vehicles. One number, licensed drivers, and a price agreed before you travel.
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