Clocktower Cars runs licensed taxis, minicabs and private hire cars in Albury and across the GU5 postcode. Our Guildford office is at Station Approach, London Road — 3.8 miles and about eleven minutes up Guildford Lane. Call 01483 301 000 or book online.
Printed here in full, at the top, because this is what people actually search for. 01483 301 000 reaches a person at our Guildford office, 3.8 miles away, at any hour of the day or night.
If you were searching for an Albury taxi phone number, that is it. Tap it and it dials. If you would rather not ring, the online booking form takes the whole job at once.
Worth stating plainly, because this village shares its name with a city of some fifty thousand people in New South Wales, and with Oldbury in the West Midlands.
This page is about Albury in Surrey — “a village and civil parish in central Surrey, England, around 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Guildford”, in the borough of Guildford, postcode district GU5. The civil parish had a population of 1,191 at the 2011 census and covers 1,628 hectares, taking in Farley Green, Little London and Brook as well as the village itself.
We do not operate in Australia or the West Midlands. If you want a car in the Tillingbourne valley, between Guildford and Shere, you are in the right place.
Four words, one service. In law a taxi, or hackney carriage, can be hailed in the street or taken from a rank; a minicab or private hire car must be booked through a licensed operator first. There is no rank in Albury and nothing to hail on the A25, so every journey from this village is a private hire booking — a named driver, a known car and a price agreed before you travel. More in our guide to minicabs versus black cabs.
This comes up often enough in Albury to deserve its own section rather than a line in a list. We run ramp-equipped wheelchair accessible vehicles across GU5, with drivers trained to secure a chair properly rather than improvise.
Two practical points for a village at this end of the network. First, there are fewer accessible cars than saloons, so give as much notice as you can — a day for a local run or a hospital appointment in Guildford, longer for an airport transfer at a busy hour. Second, say on the phone whether the chair is manual or powered, because the ramp and the anchor points differ.
Full detail on our certified and trained wheelchair accessible minicab service page, or ring 01483 301 000 to check a date.
Albury has no station of its own. Chilworth station lies a mile west of the village on the North Downs Line, and Guildford — with far more services — is 3.8 miles up the lane.
A mile sounds walkable and often is, in daylight and good weather, with nothing to carry. In January, in the dark, with a case, on a lane with no pavement, it is a different proposition. That is why the station run is the most ordinary booking we take here, and why it is worth setting up as a standing arrangement rather than ringing every morning.
Tell the office where you are actually going and we will say which station makes the journey shortest. It is not always the nearest one.
Albury produces a result we have not seen anywhere else in the coverage area, and it is worth two minutes before you book anything.
| From Albury to | Route | Distance | Typical drive | Average speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | M25 | 26.8 miles | about 36 minutes | about 45 mph |
| Heathrow | A247 and M25 | 25.0 miles | about 36 minutes | about 42 mph |
| Heathrow | A3 and M25 | 26.4 miles | about 38 minutes | about 42 mph |
| Gatwick | A25 | 22.9 miles | about 41 minutes | about 34 mph |
| Gatwick | A25 and A217 | 23.5 miles | about 43 minutes | about 33 mph |
| Guildford (our office) | Guildford Lane | 3.8 miles | about 11 minutes | — |
| Guildford | A25 | 6.0 miles | about 12 minutes | — |
Read the bold rows. Gatwick is 22.9 miles and about 41 minutes. Heathrow is 26.8 miles and about 36. The airport that is further away is the one you reach sooner.
The reason is the road. The Gatwick run is the A25 across country — a good road, but a single carriageway through villages with roundabouts and junctions, averaging about 34 mph. The Heathrow run is a short hop to the M25 and then motorway all the way, averaging about 45.
Across every town we have measured, this is the only one where the nearer airport is the slower one. If you have a genuine choice of airport, it is worth knowing — and if you are comparing quotes, it is worth knowing that a firm charging by the mile would bill you less for the journey that takes longer.
Give us the flight time rather than a pick-up time and let the office work backwards — on these roads the difference between a good morning and a bad one is larger than the difference between the routes. Book the day before for a weekday flight, and earlier for anything departing between five and eight, for a group needing an MPV, or for an accessible vehicle.
For comparison: on the same day, the public transport options from Albury to Gatwick came out at about 1 hour 43 minutes, against forty-one minutes by car. See Gatwick airport transfers and our general airport transfers page; Luton and Stansted are longer runs booked the same way.
Be met inside the terminal with a name board rather than hunting a pick-up bay — our meet and greet chauffeur service. Give us the flight number on the return leg 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.
The River Tillingbourne runs through the centre of the village, and Albury sits inside the Surrey Hills National Landscape. It is beautiful and it is difficult to describe to a driver — narrow lanes, few numbers, and several turnings that look identical after dark. A house name, a gate or the nearest junction beats a lane name on its own every time.
Albury Park is a 150-acre estate containing the Grade II* listed Mansion. In the park stands Old St Peter and St Paul’s Church, a church of Saxon origin; the newer church in the village was built in 1842, when Henry Drummond relocated the village westward.
Weddings, funerals and estate events all produce the same booking — several cars, one timing, and guests who have never driven these lanes. Book them together and in advance; a rural venue in the dark is the worst possible place to be looking for a car at eleven at night.
Three of the best-known spots in this part of Surrey sit on Albury’s doorstep, and all three share a problem for a driver: no postal address. Give us the car park, the gate or the road junction and a time and we will be there. If you are walking a dog, say so when you book and we will send a driver who takes them.
The parish takes in all three, spread over 1,628 hectares. They are covered by the same office and the same number — and because they are scattered, they are exactly the sort of address where a postcode plus a landmark saves the driver a circuit of the lanes.
Almost every school journey from this village goes out of it — towards Guildford, Shere or Cranleigh — on lanes and the A25 at exactly the hour they are busiest. A regular run is set up once, with a named set of drivers, an agreed pick-up point and a monthly invoice, rather than booked every morning. Every driver on school work is licensed and DBS checked. See our school run chauffeur service.
Newlands Corner, Albury Heath and the whole Tillingbourne valley make this thoroughly dog country, and not every private hire driver will take one. We keep drivers who will and match them to the booking rather than leaving it to chance at the kerb. Vet runs, kennel drop-offs and lifts home from a long muddy walk are all routine. Tell us the size of the animal and whether it travels in a carrier — see pet friendly taxis.
Thirty-six minutes from Heathrow and eleven from Guildford station: for a village of twelve hundred people, Albury is unusually well placed for business travel, and an account takes the admin out of it.
Hospital journeys from Albury run mostly into Guildford. 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, and a course of appointments can be set up in one call. More on reliable transport for medical appointments, or ring 01483 301 000.
The same cars carry documents and packages when they are not carrying people — a same-day run into Guildford or London, a legal pack against a deadline, something breakable that should not go through a depot. See same day courier in Surrey.
01483 301 000 rings our Guildford office at Station Approach, London Road. Use the phone for anything out of the ordinary: an accessible vehicle, an early airport run, a group, a pet, a chauffeur car, an account, or a pick-up from a lane with no number.
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.
01483 301 000. It rings our Guildford office at Station Approach, London Road, 3.8 miles from the village, and it is answered around the clock. You can also book online.
Surrey. Albury is a village and civil parish in central Surrey, about 3.5 miles east of Guildford, postcode district GU5. We do not operate in Albury, New South Wales, or in Oldbury in the West Midlands.
Yes — ramp-equipped vehicles with drivers trained to secure a chair properly. There are fewer of them than saloons and this is a village at the edge of the network, so book as far ahead as you can, and say whether the chair is manual or powered, because the ramp and anchor points differ. Ring 01483 301 000 to check a date.
Chilworth, a mile west of the village on the North Downs Line. Guildford, 3.8 miles away, has far more services and is usually the better choice for a London journey. Tell us where you are going and we will say which station is quicker.
Yes, to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted. Heathrow is about 36 minutes and Gatwick about 41, and give us the flight number so we can track the inbound on the way home.
Because the Gatwick run is the A25 across country — single carriageway, villages, roundabouts, averaging about 34 mph — while the Heathrow run is a short hop to the M25 and then motorway, averaging about 45. Gatwick is 22.9 miles and about 41 minutes; Heathrow is 26.8 miles and about 36. Albury is the only village we cover where the nearer airport is the slower one.
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. There is no rank in Albury, so every journey here is booked — which is what gives you a named driver and an agreed price.
Yes. Those have no postal address, so give us the car park, a gate or the road junction plus a time and the driver will be on it. Say if you have a dog with you.
Yes — they are part of Albury parish and are covered by the same office and the same number. Because they are scattered across the parish, a postcode plus a landmark helps the driver more than an address alone.
Yes, and book the return with the outward journey. A rural estate empties all at once, in the dark, with limited parking — that is the hardest moment of the evening to find a car. Groups are easier in an MPV than in two saloons.
Yes, with a pet friendly taxi booked in advance. Tell us the size of the animal and whether it travels in a carrier — and if you are coming off the Heath, say so, because muddy is expected.
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 is especially misleading: the nearer airport takes five minutes longer than the further one. Ring 01483 301 000 or use the booking form and you will have a price before you travel.
Licensed drivers, a Guildford office eleven minutes away, drivers who know which lane is which after dark, and a price agreed before you get in. Call 01483 301 000 or book your Albury taxi online.
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