Clocktower Cars runs licensed taxis, minicabs and private hire cars in Tolworth, KT6, twenty-four hours a day. Our Chessington office is two miles down the road. Call 0208 397 4747 for a Tolworth taxi or minicab, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price before you travel.
Worth saying clearly, because the words matter to some people and not to others.
A minicab and a private hire car are the same thing. “Private hire vehicle” is the legal term; “minicab” is what everybody actually says. Both mean a licensed car with a licensed driver that must be booked in advance rather than hailed in the street — which is what a hackney carriage, the traditional black cab, is licensed to do.
Clocktower Cars is a private hire operator. Every one of our Tolworth minicabs is pre-booked, and in exchange for not being able to flag one down you get a price agreed before the wheels turn rather than a meter running. If the distinction interests you, we have written it up properly: minicab versus black cab.
Ring for any of them and you get the same thing. Tolworth taxis, Tolworth cabs, Tolworth minicabs, Tolworth cars, private hire in Tolworth — one number, one fleet, one price agreed in advance. You will not get the wrong sort of vehicle by using the wrong word on the phone.
0208 397 4747 — our Chessington office at Chessington Business Centre, Cox Lane, KT9 1SD, which covers Tolworth, Chessington, Surbiton and Worcester Park. Answered by a person twenty-four hours a day. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office.
A large share of the people looking for a Tolworth car are not in Tolworth. They are landing at an airport or arriving in London and want a car to Tolworth — which is a different booking from a local one, and worth setting out properly.
Tolworth is 11 miles south-west of Charing Cross. From a central London hotel, station or office, that is a single straightforward run out through Kingston or down the A3 — and considerably easier than the rail journey with luggage, which means Waterloo and a change at Surbiton. Book it before you travel and the price is fixed; ring on the day and we will still quote before you commit.
Both around half an hour, and both handled the same way: give us the flight number. We track the inbound arrival and set the pickup by the actual landing time, not the scheduled one, so a delay does not mean a waiting bill or a driver who has gone home. If you would rather the driver met you inside arrivals with a name board than waited in a car park, that is meet and greet — and it is worth the difference after a long flight with cases. Detail on the Gatwick and airport transfers pages.
These are the long ones, right across or around London, and they are exactly the journeys where a pre-booked car with an agreed price beats arriving and improvising. Luton and Stansted have their own pages; Southend we quote on request. All three are tracked against the flight number in the same way.
This is the single most useful thing a driver knows about Tolworth, and it belongs near the top of any page about getting a car here.
Tolworth is cut in half by the A3 Kingston Bypass. It is a suburban area within the Surbiton district of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, sitting just north of the Greater London–Surrey border, and the dual carriageway runs straight through the middle of it.
What that means in practice:
Tolworth Tower stands right beside the A3 — a 22-storey landmark completed in 1964 to a design by the architect George Marsh, one of the tallest buildings in outer London and a well-known piece of post-war modernist architecture. Everybody can see it and nobody can mistake it, which makes it the most reliable meeting point in the area if you are not being collected from a door.
Tolworth station is on the Chessington Branch Line, in London fare zone 5, 12 miles 6 chains (19.4 km) from London Waterloo, run by South Western Railway.
It is a piece of proper 1930s architecture. Like every station on the branch it was built in art deco style using concrete arcs for the canopies, and it opened on 29 May 1938 as the original terminus before the line was extended. The station buildings sit below street level, on the Kingston Road — which is the bit that matters for a pickup, because the entrance is not where people expect it from the platform. The old goods yard is now partly a DB Cargo UK freight depot and partly a London United bus depot.
Tell the office you want the Kingston Road entrance and the driver will be at street level rather than looking for you on the platform side. If the train is late, ring us and we will move the booking.
Tolworth makes this argument better than anywhere else we cover. Here is every sensible route to both airports, measured on the same afternoon.
| From Tolworth to | Route | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | A312 | 11.9 miles | ~32 min |
| Heathrow | A308 | 13.9 miles | ~30 min |
| Heathrow | A3 and M25 | 25.2 miles | ~30 min |
| Gatwick | A240 and M23 | 20.7 miles | ~35 min |
| Gatwick | M23 | 21.9 miles | ~33 min |
| Gatwick | M25 and M23 | 25.4 miles | ~32 min |
Read the whole table at once. Six routes. Distances from 11.9 miles to 25.4 miles — more than double. Every single one takes between 30 and 35 minutes.
The 25.2-mile run to Heathrow round the A3 and M25 is exactly as quick as the 13.9-mile run through Hampton, and quicker than the 11.9-mile one. At Gatwick the longest route is the fastest and the shortest is the slowest.
A firm charging by the mile would bill you more than twice as much for the same thirty minutes. That is why we quote the journey instead: you tell us where and when, we give you a figure for that job, and the driver then takes whichever road is actually moving. The price does not change because he went the long way round — going the long way round is frequently the right answer.
Four Surrey and London place names ending in the same four letters, and they get mixed up constantly — by people and by search engines.
If you are booking from a distance, the postcode settles it in one word.
Tolworth’s immediate neighbours are Berrylands, Chessington, Long Ditton, New Malden, Surbiton and Worcester Park, with Epsom and Ewell just over the Surrey border. Surbiton is the nearest, about a mile north-west, which is why so many journeys from here are simply the run to a faster train.
The Hogsmill River runs nearby — a six-mile chalk stream that rises in Ewell and joins the Thames at Kingston, crossed in Kingston town centre by the twelfth-century Clattern Bridge, one of the oldest road bridges in England. Its valley is most of the green space around here, and the paths along it are where the dogs go.
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, though it helps the driver to know.
The A3 shapes the school run here as much as it shapes everything else: schools on the far side of the bypass are a car journey rather than a walk, and the crossing points are busiest at exactly the wrong time. Tolworth children travel out to schools in Surbiton, Chessington, New Malden and over the border into Ewell.
We run school taxis in Tolworth 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 one booking and split it. Parents arrange that 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. There are fewer of them than saloons and they are often committed ahead, so a day’s notice is comfortable and an hour is optimistic. For a course of appointments, book the series in one go.
Our medical appointment transport is built around how hospital days actually run. Clinics overrun and discharges happen when they happen, so we will hold an open return rather than book you for a time you cannot keep — and we would rather you rang to say you are two hours late than sat worrying about a car. If the patient should not be left alone at the door, say so when you book and the driver will see them in.
Tolworth Tower and the commercial strip along the bypass mean a steady flow of visitors who need collecting, and a position half an hour from both London airports makes that easy to do well.
For client collections 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 items rather than people.
The branch locator will tell you which of our offices is nearest to any address.
The airport run out, the airport run in, the station car, the school contract, the hospital appointment, the wheelchair-accessible vehicle, the dog, the eight-seater, the executive car for a client. One office, one account, one number: 0208 397 4747.
Our Chessington office is two miles away and a person answers it at any hour. That closeness is not a slogan: it is the difference between a driver who understands that your road is only reachable from one direction and one who arrives opposite you across a dual carriageway.
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 for children, elderly relatives and anybody travelling alone at night.
You get the figure on the call or in the booking confirmation. No meter, no surge multiplier, no per-mile arithmetic that punishes the quickest route. 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, ring the office and we will price it as a day booking.
0208 397 4747 — our Chessington office at Chessington Business Centre, Cox Lane, KT9 1SD, which covers Tolworth, Chessington, Surbiton and Worcester Park. Answered by a person twenty-four hours a day. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office.
Yes. “Private hire vehicle” is the legal term and “minicab” is the everyday one — both mean a licensed car with a licensed driver that must be booked rather than hailed. A hackney carriage, the black cab, is the type licensed to be flagged down. We are a private hire operator, so every Tolworth minicab is pre-booked and priced before you travel.
Ring 0208 397 4747 and we will tell you honestly how long the nearest car will be. Our Chessington office is two miles away, so for most Tolworth addresses that is a short wait — but anything with a deadline, and anything at four in the morning, should be booked ahead rather than left to chance.
It depends on where in London and when, so we quote rather than publish a figure — Tolworth is about 11 miles from Charing Cross and the traffic decides the rest. Ring or use the booking form with the pickup address and time and you will have a fixed price before you commit, which is worth having on an inbound journey where you cannot watch the meter.
Yes, and from Luton, Stansted, London City and Southend as well. Give us the flight number: we track the inbound arrival and set the pickup by the actual landing time, so a delay does not become a waiting charge. Meet and greet inside arrivals is available if you would rather not look for a car park.
Around 30 minutes, whichever way the driver goes — and that is the point. The three sensible routes are 11.9, 13.9 and 25.2 miles, and all three come out at 30 to 32 minutes. Measured 28 September 2026.
About 32 to 35 minutes. The quickest route is the longest one — 25.4 miles in around 32 minutes, against 20.7 miles in around 35. Which is why we quote journeys, not mileage.
Because Tolworth is divided in two by it. Two addresses a few hundred yards apart can be five minutes apart by car, since the driver has to reach a crossing point. Give us the full postcode and, if you can, say whether you are the Kingston Road side or the Chessington side.
On the Chessington Branch Line in zone 5, 12 miles 6 chains from London Waterloo. The station buildings are below street level on the Kingston Road, which catches people out — ask for the Kingston Road entrance and the driver will be at street level rather than hunting for you.
Tolworth, KT6, on the A3 in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Tadworth is KT20, about nine miles south-east on the Downs — we cover that too, but it is a different page and a different office. Betchworth and Isleworth are different places again.
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, and whether a carer is travelling.
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.
Call 0208 397 4747, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, in both directions — out of Tolworth and into it.
Tolworth taxis, Tolworth cabs, Tolworth minicabs, Tolworth cars and private hire in Tolworth — taxis in Tolworth and minicabs in Tolworth for Heathrow, Gatwick, the station, the school run and the hospital appointment, across KT6 and both sides of the A3. Licensed drivers, and a price agreed before you travel.
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