The Banstead taxi number is 01737 333 700. That is a Banstead number — 01737 is the village’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 seven miles south. Our Epsom head office is 01372 747 747 if you would rather ring the main switchboard.
Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator covering Banstead, Nork, Burgh Heath, Woodmansterne, Chipstead, Kingswood and Tadworth. Whether you want a taxi in Banstead for the 07:12 to Victoria, cabs in Banstead for a Gatwick flight, minicabs in Banstead for a school run or a wheelchair taxi in Banstead for a hospital appointment, it is one office and one number. Book online or call for a fixed quote before you commit.
What follows is the practical detail rather than a sales pitch: why Banstead station is a longer walk than anyone expects, why Gatwick from here is the best airport position of any village we cover, how the school and hospital runs work, and what actually sets the price of Banstead taxis.
Three ways to book a Banstead 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 Banstead addresses. Details on our find us page.
This is the single most useful local fact on this page, and almost nobody moving to Banstead is told it in advance.
Banstead station sits about nine tenths of a mile west of the High Street, well out of the village on the edge of Banstead Downs. It is not a five-minute stroll from the shops, and the walk crosses open downland with no shelter worth the name. On a bright Saturday that is a pleasure. At ten past seven on a wet Tuesday in February, with a laptop bag, it is the reason the short station run is the most-booked journey in this village.
Banstead is on the Epsom Downs branch line, between Belmont and Epsom Downs, served by Southern. Off-peak that is roughly two trains an hour to London Victoria via Norbury and two to Epsom Downs. It is in London fare zone 6, which surprises people given the Surrey address — more on that below.
Two an hour is the other half of the story. Miss one and it costs you half an hour, which is precisely why people book the car rather than risk the walk.
The approach to Banstead station is narrow and there is not much room to sit. Give us your train’s arrival time rather than the time on your ticket and we will hold the car nearby, bringing it in as you come off the platform.
Banstead sits in a cluster of small stations, several of which are closer to parts of the village than Banstead station itself:
Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner are less than a mile apart on the map and on completely different lines. Saying which one you mean takes a second and saves a great deal of trouble.
Banstead has the best airport position of any village we cover, and hardly anybody who lives here realises by how much.
About 14.7 miles and roughly 23 minutes on the M23. That is quicker than the same journey from Dorking, Sutton, Epsom or anywhere else in our coverage. Straight down and you are at the terminal.
Twenty-three minutes is short enough to be dangerous, mind. It tempts people into leaving late, and the A217 and the M23 approach both queue badly at commuter times — a twenty-three minute run becomes forty-five often enough that we build the margin in rather than leaving you to gamble on it. Our Gatwick airport transfers page covers the terminals and the pickup points.
Two sensible routes, and the comparison is instructive:
Ten miles shorter and a minute slower. The direct route crosses a string of south-west London town centres and the river; the motorway is longer but it keeps moving. For a flight we take the M25, because a predictable forty-two minutes beats an unpredictable forty-three. On a quiet Sunday the direct route wins. See our airport transfers page for the wider picture.
The short version, for anyone choosing which airport to fly from: Gatwick is half the distance and nineteen minutes closer than Heathrow from Banstead.
The return leg is where an airport transfer is actually won or lost, and it is the half people leave to chance. A pre-booked car from Gatwick to Banstead or Heathrow to Banstead means:
All covered, all pre-booked, all quoted in advance. Luton and Stansted mean crossing or skirting London, so the departure time matters far more than the mileage. London City is straightforward off-peak. Southampton and Dover for cruises are steady summer bookings from Banstead.
People search for the cost of a Banstead to Gatwick or Banstead to Heathrow taxi constantly, and we understand why — but we do not publish a price list, and it is worth explaining that rather than leaving it looking evasive.
A fare is set by four things, and only one of them is distance.
So the honest answer is a quote for your actual journey, given before you commit to anything. Ring 01737 333 700 or get a fixed price online. If you are comparing cheap taxis in Banstead, compare quotes for the same journey at the same time of day — that is where the real difference shows up, not in headline rates.
Banstead sits 3.5 miles and about ten minutes from Epsom, and the Downs between them are shared ground. A good deal of Banstead’s taxi work is really Epsom work: the hospital, the station, the town centre and the racecourse.
Epsom Downs Racecourse sits on the far side of the Downs from Banstead village, and on a big meeting the roads around Tattenham Corner and Epsom Downs close or fill completely. Three things make the day work:
We cover both, from the same system — but if your journey starts and ends in Epsom rather than Banstead, our Epsom taxis page is the one written for you, with the Epsom number, the Clock Tower, Epsom station and Epsom General covered in detail. Our head office is in Epsom, so it is home ground.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles across Banstead and the surrounding villages. A wheelchair taxi in Banstead 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 turns up.
Whether the chair folds and the passenger transfers into a seat, or whether it travels occupied with the passenger strapped in — different vehicles. Tell us about steps, gravel drives and narrow gates at both ends too, because a great many Banstead houses have all three. Our wheelchair-accessible minicab page covers the vehicles and the driver training.
Epsom General is about ten minutes away, the Royal Marsden at Belmont is a short run north, and East Surrey at Redhill is down the A217. The return leg is the one 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.
The Beacon School is the village’s main secondary, with over a thousand pupils — and a nice piece of local trivia: it supplies ball boys and girls to the Wimbledon Championships. Between the Beacon, the primaries and the number of Banstead families who send children out to selective and independent schools in Sutton, Epsom and Reigate, the school run here starts early and covers real distances.
We run school taxis in Banstead 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 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 Banstead families send children to the same school, a shared contract usually makes sense. Ask and we will work out whether the route holds together.
Banstead is ringed by open land. The Banstead Commons are four separate green spaces totalling roughly 1,351 acres — Banstead Downs (430 acres, a Site of Special Scientific Interest), Banstead Heath (760 acres), Burgh Heath (87) and Park Downs (74) — all in the Metropolitan Green Belt, and all doing the job of keeping the village from merging into its neighbours.
In taxi terms that means two things. First, a great many of our Banstead passengers have a dog with them, and we carry pets when the booking says so — tell us the size and whether the animal is crated or loose, and we will send a driver and a boot that suit. Assistance dogs travel as of right. See our pet-friendly taxis page.
Second, the Commons are the best possible use of a local taxi and the one nobody thinks of: we drop you at one end of a walk and collect you at the other, so you never double back to a car. Pre-book both ends, because the collection point usually has no passing trade whatsoever.
Nobody minds. Say so when you book and the right car comes.
Banstead is a commuter village with a working High Street, and a lot of its residents travel into London, Croydon and Gatwick for a living. We run corporate taxi accounts for firms and individuals across the village and the surrounding area.
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.
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 — the A217 at half past eight is a different road from the A217 at half past ten. When you book we will give you a pickup time that allows for the actual day.
| From Banstead to | Distance | Typical clear-road time | Usual route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | 14.7 miles | about 23 minutes | M23 |
| Gatwick Airport (alternative) | 13.8 miles | about 27 minutes | A217 throughout |
| Heathrow Airport | 28.9 miles | about 42 minutes | M25 |
| Heathrow Airport (direct) | 19.1 miles | about 43 minutes | A308 through Kingston |
| Sutton | 3.2 miles | about 8 minutes | A217 |
| Epsom | 3.5 miles | about 10 minutes | A2022 |
Two things are worth pulling out. Gatwick is half the distance of Heathrow and nineteen minutes closer — if your flight goes from either, Gatwick is the easier airport from this village by a wide margin. And the Heathrow pair shows why mileage is a poor guide to anything: ten miles of difference, one minute of time.
Banstead sits in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, in the SM7 postcode, about three miles south of Sutton and seven north of Reigate. The village is surrounded by smaller ones, and a great deal of our work is in them.
| Area | Where it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Nork | West of the High Street, towards Epsom Downs | — |
| Burgh Heath | South on the A217, and one of the four Commons | — |
| Woodmansterne | East, towards Coulsdon | Woodmansterne taxis |
| Chipstead | South-east, in the valley | Chipstead taxis |
| Kingswood | South, on the Tattenham Corner line | Kingswood taxis |
| Tadworth | South-west, beyond Kingswood | Tadworth taxis |
| Sutton | Three miles north, over the borough line | Sutton taxis |
| Carshalton | North-east | Carshalton taxis |
| Epsom | West, across the Downs | Epsom taxis |
| Ashtead | West, beyond Epsom | Ashtead taxis |
| Reigate | Seven miles south, where the cars are dispatched from | Reigate taxis |
Also covered without a page of their own: Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Walton on the Hill, Lower Kingswood and Banstead Village itself.
Banstead is in Surrey, in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead, with an SM postcode and an 01737 dialling code — and its station is in London fare zone 6. It sits right on the seam, roughly thirteen miles from central London and yet unmistakably a Surrey village. For booking a cab in Banstead it makes no difference at all, but it explains why the place gets described both ways.
Three names for one thing, and people in the village use all of them. Whichever you searched for, you have reached the same office and the same number. What matters is not the word but whether the car is there at the time it said it would be — and for a station run that leaves two trains an hour, that is the whole job.
There is no objective best taxi service in Banstead and we will not claim to be it. When you are choosing between Banstead taxi companies, this is the short list of things actually worth comparing.
01737 333 700 is a Banstead dialling code, answered by controllers who know that the station is a mile from the High Street, that Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner are different stations on different lines, and which lanes around the Commons will not take an eight-seater. No algorithm in another city knows any of that.
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 good deal more at midnight than it sounds at noon.
Ask and you will have a fixed quote before the car is booked. No meter running in a queue on the A217, and no surge pricing on a wet Friday.
Our branches run from Kingston and Sutton in the north down through Epsom, Banstead and Reigate to Guildford and Godalming. A booking in Banstead and one in Sutton 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.
01737 333 700, which is Banstead’s own dialling code, 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 Banstead.
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 23 minutes for 14.7 miles on the M23 with a clear road — the quickest Gatwick run from anywhere we cover. Allow considerably more at commuter times, and for a flight we will build a margin into the pickup time rather than working to the map.
About 42 minutes for 28.9 miles on the M25. There is a shorter route of 19.1 miles through Kingston, but it takes about the same time, so we normally use the motorway because it is more predictable.
About nine tenths of a mile, west of the village on the edge of Banstead Downs. It is a proper walk rather than a stroll, which is why the short station run is the most common booking we take here.
In everyday speech, nothing — people use all three for the same thing and so do we on this page. 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. That is why we cannot be flagged down, and it is also why every journey has a record and a clear insurance position behind it. More on our minicab versus black cab page.
Yes, and you should. 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 can choose between a driver meeting you inside arrivals with a name board or a cheaper kerbside pickup.
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. Given that Banstead is surrounded by 1,351 acres of common land, this comes up a great deal.
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.
Yes, all of them, plus Nork, Burgh Heath, Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs and Walton on the Hill. Each of the four has a page of its own: Chipstead, Kingswood, Tadworth and Woodmansterne.
Yes. Book the return at the same time as the outbound, agree a pickup point away from the main gate, and tell us the group size so one larger vehicle comes rather than three cars into the same lane.
Call 01737 333 700
Twenty-four hours a day, a Banstead number answered by a person. Head office: 01372 747 747.
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