Clocktower Cars runs licensed taxis, cabs and minicabs in East Horsley, KT24, twenty-four hours a day. Our nearest office is in Guildford, about seventeen minutes down the Epsom Road. Call 01483 301 000 for an East Horsley taxi, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price before you travel.
01483 301 000 reaches our Guildford office at Station Approach, London Road, GU1 4DQ — the one that covers East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham, Ripley and the Clandons. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office if you would rather go through the main switchboard. Both are answered by a person at any hour.
People search for East Horsley taxis, Horsley taxis, cabs in East Horsley and East Horsley minicabs, and they all mean the same thing: a licensed car with a licensed driver, arriving when asked, at a price agreed first. You will not get the wrong sort of vehicle by using the wrong word on the phone.
Guildford is 6.8 miles from East Horsley, about seventeen minutes along the Epsom Road. Cars also work out of Bookham, which is the other side of the Horsleys, so the car sent is the nearest available one rather than the nearest on paper. The branch locator shows which office covers any address.
East Horsley has the most evenly balanced airport position of anywhere we cover. Both major airports are around half an hour away, and neither is obviously the right answer.
| From East Horsley to | Distance | Typical drive | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 20.8 miles | ~32 min | M25 |
| Gatwick | 26.5 miles | ~36 min | M25 and M23 |
Five and a half miles and four minutes between them. Most villages in Surrey have a clear nearer airport; East Horsley genuinely does not, which is useful to know when you are choosing a flight rather than a taxi.
Around 32 minutes up the M25, all four terminals. For a 6am departure with a three-hour long-haul check-in, that is a pickup around 2.15am — the hour when a pre-booked car is worth having and an app-hailed one, out here, is a genuine gamble. Our airport transfer service covers the lot.
Around 36 minutes via the M25 and M23. On the way back we track the inbound flight number and set the pickup by the actual landing time, not the scheduled one — so a delay does not mean waiting charges or a driver who has given up and gone home. More on the Gatwick transfers page.
Luton and Stansted are long M25 runs and are quoted as such. We also cover London City, Southampton and the cruise ports, and the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone. If you want the driver inside arrivals with a name board rather than waiting in a car park, that is meet and greet, and it earns its keep when you are landing with children or luggage.
People search for a cheap East Horsley taxi, and the honest answer is worth giving straight.
A village fifteen minutes from the nearest town is expensive to serve, because a car often travels to you empty and travels back empty. Any firm advertising a flat cut-price rate out here is either not sending a car from nearby or is making it back somewhere you have not noticed — a waiting charge, an airport parking add-on, a surge multiplier at four in the morning.
What we do instead is quote the journey, tell you the number before you commit, and not move it afterwards. That is usually cheaper in practice than a low headline rate with things bolted on, and it is always cheaper than a car that does not turn up.
Ways to keep it down that actually work: book ahead rather than on demand, travel outside the small hours where you can, share a car rather than taking two, and put regular journeys on an account.
Horsley station is in East Horsley, 22 miles 16 chains — 35.7 km — down the line from London Waterloo on the New Guildford line. It serves a good deal more than its own village: West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley all use it, and Effingham Junction is the other station for this stretch.
Tell the office which side of the station you will be on and the driver will come to you. If the train is late, ring us and we will move the booking rather than leave a car sitting in the station approach.
East Horsley is a village and civil parish 21 miles south-west of London, strung along the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford, with substantial woodland and, to the south, the chalky lower slopes of the North Downs. It is beautiful and it is spread out, and the second of those is what matters when you are booking a car.
With the Sheepleas and the Downs on the doorstep this is dog country, and a dog is the commonest reason a booking falls apart at the kerb. We run pet-friendly taxis with drivers who have agreed in advance to carry animals. Tell us the size of the dog and whether it travels in a crate when you book, not when the car arrives. Assistance dogs travel as of right and need no notice.
Village school runs are long by definition. Horsley children travel out to schools in Guildford, Effingham, Leatherhead and Cranleigh, and the journeys run along the A246 at exactly the hour it is busiest. Almost none of it is walkable.
We run school taxis in East Horsley as standing term-time bookings: same pickup, same time, same named driver wherever the rota allows. For a child making the same journey 190 mornings a year, a familiar driver is worth more than a marginally cheaper fare.
Drivers carrying children are licensed and DBS-checked. Child seats and boosters are provided when you tell us the child’s age and weight at the time of booking — not on the morning. If the school needs a named driver on a list, we will supply the details.
Two or three families going to the same school at the same time can share a booking and split it. In villages this is the normal arrangement and it works well. Parents sort it out between themselves; we run the route and invoice whoever you nominate.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles with ramp access, proper restraints and drivers trained to use them. A wheelchair taxi in East Horsley needs more notice than a saloon does, because there are fewer of them and they cover a wide rural area. A day ahead is comfortable; an hour is optimistic.
There is no hospital in the village, so every hospital journey from here is a proper trip, usually towards Guildford or Epsom. Our medical appointment transport is built around how hospital days actually run: clinics overrun, discharges happen when they happen, and a car booked for a fixed return time is a car that leaves without you.
We will hold an open return, and we would rather you rang to say you are two hours late than sat worrying about it. If the patient should not be left alone at the door, say so when you book and the driver will see them in.
Horsley is commuter and consultant country, and a lot of its business travel starts at a front door before six in the morning. That is the profile an account suits: named bookers, nothing paid at the kerb, one invoice at month end.
For client collections, events at West Horsley Place and airport runs where the car is part of the impression, we run executive vehicles and a corporate chauffeur service: a smarter car, a driver in a suit, a fixed price agreed in advance. There is also a same-day courier service for things that must be somewhere today and are not people.
Horsley sits mid-way along the A246, so we run in both directions every day.
| From East Horsley to | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|
| Guildford | 6.8 miles | ~17 min |
| Heathrow Airport | 20.8 miles | ~32 min |
| Gatwick Airport | 26.5 miles | ~36 min |
| London Waterloo by train | 22 miles 16 chains | — |
The first line is the one to notice. Guildford is under seven miles away and takes seventeen minutes — a rate of about 24 miles an hour — while Heathrow, three times the distance, takes twice the time. Short local journeys in this part of Surrey are not quick, and a firm quoting a flat per-mile figure is guessing at your expense.
The airport run, the station car, the school contract, the hospital appointment, the wheelchair-accessible vehicle, the dog, the eight-seater, the executive car for an event. One office, one account, one number: 01483 301 000.
A person answers at any hour. If a driver is late you speak to someone who can see where the car is. In a village that matters more than it does in a town: when a car goes astray on the A246 at half past five in the morning, an app gives you a moving dot and no one to ask.
Every car is a licensed private hire vehicle, every driver is licensed, and every journey is insured for hire and reward. Because the booking goes through the office there is a record of who drove you, when, and where — which matters most on the journeys where it matters most: children, elderly relatives, and anybody travelling alone at night down unlit lanes.
You get the figure on the call or in the booking confirmation. No meter, no surge multiplier, no change because the M25 had a bad afternoon. If the job changes — an extra stop, an extra passenger — we tell you what that changes before the car sets off.
Card in the car, card over the phone, or on account. Account customers are invoiced monthly and never handle payment at the kerb.
We are a taxi and private hire operator. We do not hire out self-drive cars or vans and we do not do servicing or repairs. If what you want is a car and a driver for a day — appointments, a funeral, an event, a day of viewings — ring the office and we will price it as a day booking.
01483 301 000 — our Guildford office at Station Approach, London Road, GU1 4DQ, which covers East Horsley, West Horsley, Ockham, Ripley and the Clandons. Answered by a person twenty-four hours a day. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office.
East Horsley, KT24, on the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford. Horley is a different town, about twenty miles away next to Gatwick, and it is spelled without the s. The two get confused constantly. We cover East Horsley and West Horsley; if you want Horley, quote the RH6 postcode to whoever you ring and you will save yourself a conversation.
Yes. The office is staffed around the clock and cars run through the night. The honest caveat: in a village at four in the morning, a pre-booked car is guaranteed and an on-demand one is not, because fewer drivers are on and they cover a wide area. Early flights and late returns should always be booked ahead.
About 32 minutes for 20.8 miles up the M25, measured on 26 September 2026. All four terminals. We build a margin into early-morning pickups because the M25 is the part that varies.
About 36 minutes for 26.5 miles via the M25 and M23. Four minutes and five and a half miles more than Heathrow — East Horsley is unusually evenly placed between the two.
Yes, and it is a large part of what the Guildford office does. Heathrow and Gatwick are both around half an hour; we also run Luton, Stansted, London City, Southampton, the cruise ports and the Eurotunnel terminal. Give us the flight number and we will track the arrival and set the pickup by the actual landing time.
Horsley station, in East Horsley, 22 miles 16 chains from London Waterloo on the New Guildford line. It also serves West Horsley, Ockham and Ripley, which is why so much of our work here is station cars for people who do not live in the village.
Yes. We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles with ramp access, restraints and trained drivers. Give us as much notice as you can — a day is comfortable, an hour is optimistic — and tell us whether the passenger stays in the chair, what type of chair it is, whether a carer is travelling, and whether there is gravel or a step at the door.
Yes, with notice, so we can send a driver who has agreed to carry animals. Tell us the size of the dog and whether it travels in a crate. Assistance dogs travel as of right and need no notice.
Yes. For the Sheepleas, name the car park or access point — the reserve covers 247 acres and has several. For an event at West Horsley Place, book the return before the day rather than on it; the lanes are narrow and everyone leaves at once.
It depends on the journey rather than the mileage, which is why we quote instead of publishing a rate card. The price is set by how long the journey actually takes, the time of day, the vehicle, whether the car returns empty, and any waiting or extras. Ring 01483 301 000 with the pickup, the destination and the time, and you will have a fixed figure before you commit — one that does not change because the traffic did.
Yes, all of them, from the same office and on the same number. West Horsley and Ripley have pages of their own, and we cover Ockham, the Clandons and Effingham as part of the same patch.
Call 01483 301 000 for an East Horsley taxi, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price. Twenty-four hours a day, every day.
East Horsley taxis, Horsley cabs, Horsley minicabs — taxis in East Horsley and cabs in East Horsley for Heathrow, Gatwick, the station, the school run and the hospital appointment, across KT24, West Horsley, Ockham, Ripley and the Clandons. Licensed drivers, and a price agreed before you travel.
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