The Chipstead taxi number is 01737 333 700. That is an 01737 number, which is Chipstead’s own dialling code, and it is answered twenty-four hours a day. The cars are dispatched from our Reigate office on London Road, about six miles south over the Downs.
Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator covering Chipstead, Hooley, Mugswell, Chipstead Bottom and the lanes in between. Whether you want a taxi in Chipstead for the early train to London Bridge, cabs in Chipstead for a Gatwick flight, minicabs in Chipstead on a Sunday when the trains are not running properly, or a wheelchair taxi in Chipstead for a hospital appointment, it is one office and one number. Book online or call for a fixed quote first.
Three ways to book a Chipstead taxi
1. Call — 01737 333 700, 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 Chipstead addresses. Details on our find us page.
This is not marketing. It is the plain geography of the place, and it is worth setting out before anything else.
Chipstead is a village of about 3,136 people in 1,212 homes spread over 9.6 square kilometres on the North Downs, and parts of it sit inside the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has no defined centre — the housing is dispersed across several separate pockets with small commercial nodes rather than one high street. It is characterised by mature trees and hedgerows, open fields and farmland, narrow winding lanes and the absence of street lighting. And it has no direct bus services running through it.
Put those together and you have a village where, if the train does not go where you are going or does not run when you need it, there is no fallback. That is the whole case for this page, and we would rather state it honestly than dress it up.
Dispersed housing, unlit winding lanes and CR5 postcodes that cover a wide area add up to a real risk of a driver stopping a quarter of a mile from your gate in the dark. When you book, give us more than the postcode:
If we cannot reach you, the driver waits rather than clearing the job. But thirty seconds of detail at the booking saves ten minutes at the door.
Chipstead station opened in 1897 and sits on the Tattenham Corner line, served by Southern, in London fare zone 6. It is 18 miles and 41 chains from Charing Cross. Woodmansterne is the station before it and Kingswood the one after.
Off-peak the service is roughly:
Here is the detail that generates most of our Sunday work, and hardly any competitor page mentions it. On Sundays the service drops to hourly and runs only between Tattenham Corner and Purley — so anyone heading for London Bridge has to change at Purley, on an hourly train.
For a Sunday morning flight, a Sunday lunch in town or a Sunday hospital visit, that is often the moment the taxi makes more sense than the timetable. Book it on Saturday rather than working it out on the platform.
Give us your train’s arrival time rather than your ticket time and the car comes in as you reach the platform. Chipstead is a small station on a quiet road and there is no rank — a pre-booked car is the only car.
Chipstead has the best Gatwick position of any village we cover, and by a distance.
13.0 miles and about 19 minutes on the M23. Not half an hour, not “around forty minutes” — nineteen. The M23 starts more or less at the bottom of the hill, and the airport is the second junction down.
Here is the fact worth pausing on. Gatwick is quicker from Chipstead than Croydon is — Croydon is 7.3 miles and about 27 minutes, because the roads north out of the village are the narrow winding lanes described above and the roads south are a motorway. A village of three thousand people that is closer in time to an international airport than to its nearest town centre is unusual, and worth knowing when you book a flight. Our Gatwick airport transfers page covers the terminals and pickup points.
32.5 miles and about an hour on the M25 anticlockwise. Two and a half times the distance of Gatwick and three times the time, because it means the full western arc of the M25 through the junctions that queue worst.
So the practical advice is blunt: if your flight goes from either airport, fly from Gatwick. If it has to be Heathrow, allow an hour and a quarter for a morning departure rather than the hour the map promises, and book the car the day before. See our airport transfers page.
The return leg matters more here than in most places, because an unlit lane at midnight is not somewhere to be working out how to get home. A pre-booked car means:
All covered and all quoted before you travel. Luton and Stansted mean the M25 the long way round, so departure time matters far more than the mileage. Southampton and Dover for cruises are steady summer bookings.
A straight answer, because a large share of the people who reach this page are looking for something we do not do. We are not a car hire, van hire or car servicing business. We do not rent self-drive vehicles in Chipstead and we do not service cars. If that is what you came for, this is not the right page and we would rather say so than waste your time.
What we do is send a car with a licensed driver in it, pre-booked, at a price agreed in advance. For a single journey — an airport, a hospital appointment, a day of meetings, an evening out — that is usually simpler than hiring, insuring, fuelling, parking and returning a vehicle. If what you actually need is a car and driver for a whole day rather than one trip, ask and we will quote it as a day booking.
We do not publish a price list, and Chipstead shows why better than anywhere. Gatwick is 13 miles and 19 minutes. Croydon is 7.3 miles and 27 minutes. A per-mile rate would be badly wrong 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. Ring 01737 333 700 or get a fixed price online.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles across Chipstead and the surrounding villages. A wheelchair taxi in Chipstead has to be pre-booked rather than hailed — there are only so many accessible vehicles on the road at any hour, and in a village with no rank and no bus, booking ahead is the only thing that 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. And here more than anywhere, tell us about the approach: gravel drives, steps, unlit paths and gates too narrow for a ramp are common in this village and all of them change which car we send. Our wheelchair-accessible minicab page covers the vehicles and the driver training.
East Surrey at Redhill is the straightforward one down the A23; Epsom General, the Royal Marsden at Belmont, St Helier at Carshalton and Croydon University Hospital are all regular runs. The return leg is what people get wrong: book the outbound to a firm time and leave the return open, ringing 01737 333 700 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 explains how these work.
Chipstead’s school run is long by definition. With no bus through the village and dispersed housing, almost every secondary-age child here travels — to Banstead, Coulsdon, Purley, Reigate, Sutton or one of the independent schools further out. Those are real distances on roads that do not behave like main roads.
We run school taxis in Chipstead as standing term-time bookings: same pickup, same time, named regular driver wherever the rota allows. In a village of unlit lanes, a driver who already knows the gate is worth 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 sets out how the contracts work.
Where two or three Chipstead families send children to the same school, a shared contract usually makes sense and the route almost always holds together, because everyone is heading the same way out of the village. Ask and we will work it out.
Open fields, farmland and the Surrey Hills on the doorstep: a good share of our Chipstead passengers have a dog with them. We carry pets when the booking says so — tell us the size and whether the animal is crated or loose, and the right car and a driver who is happy about it turn up. Assistance dogs travel as of right. See our pet-friendly taxis page.
Say so when you ring if it is urgent. We would rather send the right vehicle and a driver who knows what is coming.
Chipstead has a football club and a rugby club — Chipstead Rugby Football Club was founded in 1959 — and between them, the village hall and the pubs, there is a steady run of evenings that end with people who should not drive home along unlit lanes.
The advice is the same as everywhere and it matters more here: book the return when you book the outbound. There is no rank in Chipstead, nothing passes, and at eleven on a Saturday night the only car available is the one already booked. For a group above four, ask about an eight-seater rather than splitting across cars into a single-track lane.
Chipstead is a commuter village — two thirds of its housing is detached and its residents overwhelmingly work somewhere else. We run corporate taxi accounts for firms and individuals here.
Staff book without handling money, journeys are 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.
Nineteen minutes from Gatwick makes Chipstead an unusually good base for meeting clients off a flight. An executive car is the difference between transport and hospitality, and 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.
| From Chipstead to | Distance | Typical clear-road time | Usual route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | 13.0 miles | about 19 minutes | M23 |
| Gatwick Airport (alternative) | 13.7 miles | about 20 minutes | A23 and M23 |
| Heathrow Airport | 32.5 miles | about 1 hour | M25 |
| Reigate | 6.3 miles | about 18 minutes | High Road and A217 |
| Croydon | 7.3 miles | about 27 minutes | Stafford Road |
Read the first and last rows together. Gatwick is 13 miles away and takes 19 minutes. Croydon is 7.3 miles away and takes 27. That is Chipstead’s geography in one line: motorway to the south, winding lanes to the north. It is also why nobody should estimate a fare from a map here, and why we quote instead.
Worth saying plainly, because it catches people out. This page is about Chipstead in Surrey, in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead, postcode CR5, dialling code 01737, on the Tattenham Corner line between Woodmansterne and Kingswood. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Tepestede, and St Margaret’s Church at Hooley dates to the twelfth century.
There is another Chipstead in Kent, near Sevenoaks. We do not cover it. If you are booking from outside the area, quote the CR5 postcode rather than the village name and there is no room for confusion.
| Area | Where it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Hooley | A hamlet within the parish, on the A23 | — |
| Woodmansterne | The station before Chipstead on the line | Woodmansterne taxis |
| Kingswood | The station after Chipstead on the line | Kingswood taxis |
| Banstead | North-west, over the Downs | Banstead taxis |
| Burgh Heath | West, on the A217 | Burgh Heath taxis |
| Tadworth | West, beyond Kingswood | Tadworth taxis |
| Reigate | Six miles south, where the cars are dispatched from | Reigate taxis |
| Carshalton | North, over the borough line | Carshalton taxis |
| Sutton | North | Sutton taxis |
| Epsom | North-west | Epsom taxis |
| Ashtead | West, beyond Epsom | Ashtead taxis |
Also covered without a page of their own: Mugswell, Chipstead Bottom, Netherne, Coulsdon, Purley, Chaldon and Merstham.
Three names for the same thing, one number: 01737 333 700. A taxi service in Chipstead, a local taxi in Chipstead, an airport run, a school contract or a wheelchair booking all go through the same office and the same controllers.
In a village with no street lighting, dispersed housing and postcodes covering a wide area, knowing the difference between Hooley and Chipstead Bottom is not a nicety — it is the job. A mapping algorithm in another city puts the car at the end of the lane and rings you. A local controller asks the right question at the booking.
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. If something goes wrong there is an office to ring and a record of the booking, which is worth a great deal more at midnight on an unlit lane than it sounds at noon.
Ask and you will have a fixed quote before the car is booked. No meter running on the A217, 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 Chipstead and one in Reigate go through the same system, which matters for school contracts and corporate accounts. 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.
01737 333 700, which is Chipstead’s own 01737 dialling code, answered twenty-four hours a day by a person. The cars come from our Reigate office, six miles south.
Yes. The office is staffed around the clock and cars run through the night. The honest caveat matters more here than in a town: there is no rank in Chipstead and nothing passes, so a pre-booked car is effectively the only car. Book early flights and late returns ahead.
About 19 minutes for 13 miles on the M23 with a clear road — the quickest Gatwick run from anywhere we cover. Allow more at commuter times, and for a flight we build a margin into the pickup time.
About an hour for 32.5 miles on the M25. Two and a half times the distance of Gatwick and three times the time. For a morning departure, allow an hour and a quarter.
No. We are a private hire operator, not a rental company or a garage. We send a car with a licensed driver in it, pre-booked and at an agreed price. If you want a car and driver for a whole day rather than one journey, ask and we will quote it as a day booking.
Southern, on the Tattenham Corner line, in London fare zone 6. Off-peak that is roughly two trains an hour to London Bridge, non-stop from Norwood Junction, and two an hour to Tattenham Corner. On Sundays it drops to hourly and runs only between Tattenham Corner and Purley, so London Bridge passengers change at Purley.
No direct bus services run through the village. It is one of the reasons a pre-booked car matters more here than in most places, and why we take a lot of Sunday and late-evening bookings.
Give us more than the postcode. Say which part of Chipstead — the village, Hooley, Mugswell, Chipstead Bottom or near the station — add a landmark, and give a what3words reference if you have one. The lanes are unlit and the postcodes cover a wide area, so a second contact number helps too.
Surrey — CR5, in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead, on the Tattenham Corner line. We do not cover the Chipstead near Sevenoaks in Kent. Quoting the CR5 postcode removes any doubt.
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 in a village with no rank is the only way it could work anyway. 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 gravel, steps, unlit paths or narrow gates at either end.
It depends on the route, the time of day, the vehicle and any waiting — and in Chipstead more than most places, distance is a poor guide, since Gatwick at 13 miles takes nineteen minutes and Croydon at 7.3 miles takes twenty-seven. Call or get a fixed quote online and you will have a price before you commit.
Call 01737 333 700
A local 01737 number, answered by a person, twenty-four hours a day.
Chipstead taxis, Chipstead cabs, Chipstead minicabs — a taxi service in Chipstead for the station, the airport, the school run and the hospital appointment. One number, licensed drivers, and a price agreed before you travel.
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