Clocktower Cars has an office at Bookham railway station, in Church Road, Great Bookham. Not a call centre somewhere else with Bookham in the page title — an actual office, in the village, at the station. Call 01372 727 727 for a Bookham taxi, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price before you travel.
Bookham railway station stands in Church Road in Great Bookham and serves both villages. Our office is at it. The address is Railway Station, Church Road, Bookham, Leatherhead, KT23 3JG, and the number is 01372 727 727.
01372 727 727 — the Bookham office, answered by a person, twenty-four hours a day. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office if you would rather go through the main switchboard. The branch locator shows which office is nearest to any address.
People search for Bookham taxis, Bookham cabs and Bookham minicabs and mean the same thing: a licensed car with a licensed driver, arriving when asked, at a price agreed first. The legal distinction is real — a hackney carriage can be hailed in the street, a private hire car must be booked — but out here it is academic, because in a Surrey village nobody flags a cab down anyway. Everything we do is pre-booked. If the difference interests you, we have written it up: minicab versus black cab.
Bookham station is 20 miles 45 chains — 33.1 km — down the line from London Waterloo, which makes it a genuine commuter station and a long way to be stranded if something goes wrong. It serves Great Bookham and Little Bookham between them.
We are at the station, so this is the easy one. Tell the office which side you will be on and the driver will be there. If the train is delayed, ring us — from an office this close it costs us nothing to move a booking by fifteen minutes, and it saves you standing about.
Bookham is almost exactly equidistant from Gatwick and Heathrow — and they are not remotely the same journey.
| From Bookham to | Distance | Typical drive | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | 23.0 miles | ~46 min | M25 |
| Gatwick | 24.4 miles | ~32 min | M25 and M23 |
| Gatwick (shorter route) | 18.0 miles | ~36 min | A24 |
Heathrow and Gatwick are 1.4 miles apart in distance and fourteen minutes apart in time. And the shortest way to Gatwick — straight down the A24, 6.4 miles less driving — takes four minutes longer than going the long way round the motorway.
That is why we quote journeys and do not publish a price per mile. A mileage rate would charge you more for the quick motorway run to Gatwick than for the slow crawl to Heathrow, which is exactly backwards. Tell us where you are going and when, and we will give you a figure for that journey.
Thirty-two minutes on a clear run makes Gatwick very manageable from KT23. For a 6am departure with a two-hour check-in, that is a pickup around 3.15am — the hour when a pre-booked car matters and an app is a gamble, particularly from a village. On the way back we track the inbound flight number and adjust the pickup to the actual landing time. More on the Gatwick transfers page.
Heathrow is 23.0 miles and around 46 minutes up the M25, all four terminals, and the M25 stretch is the part that moves. Luton and Stansted are long runs and are quoted as such. Our airport transfer service also covers London City, the cruise ports and the Eurotunnel terminal. If you want the driver waiting inside arrivals with a name board rather than in a car park, that is meet and greet.
Five things, and only the first is distance.
Give us the journey and you get a figure before you commit. That figure is what you pay. It does not move because the M25 did.
Bookham is really two villages. Great Bookham and Little Bookham were divided in the early medieval period, from the single Saxon settlement of Bocham, and they have been contiguous ever since. Great Bookham is one of six spring line settlements strung between Leatherhead and Guildford; Little Bookham is the narrow strip parish running west towards Effingham, sitting immediately north of the North Downs, with a large conservation area, a number of listed buildings, All Saints’ Church, Manor House School and Ye Olde Windsor Castle.
Bookham Commons lie just north of both villages and run to 154.7 hectares — Great Bookham Common to the east of Common Road, Little Bookham Common to the south and west of it. Within the site there is a group of dwellings known as the Isle of Wight, reached by Common Road from the north-west.
If that is where you are, say so by name when you book. It is the address most likely to confuse a driver from outside the village, and it is exactly the sort of thing an office in Church Road already knows.
Polesden Lacey — the Edwardian house and estate on the North Downs at Great Bookham, one of the National Trust’s most popular properties — brings a steady stream of visitors into the village, and a fair amount of our daytime work with it. Weddings and events there are worth booking transport for well ahead; the lanes up to it are narrow and the car park fills.
With 154 hectares of common 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. Bookham children travel out to schools in Leatherhead, Effingham, Dorking and Guildford, and Manor House School in Little Bookham draws pupils in from a wide radius in the other direction. Almost none of it is walkable, the lanes are narrow, and the morning window is tight.
We run school taxis in Bookham as standing term-time bookings: same pickup, same time, same named 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 — and from an office in the village, the driver is a local one.
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. In a village this size it is a common arrangement and it works well.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles with ramp access, proper restraints and drivers trained to use them. A wheelchair taxi in Bookham 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.
Bookham is a village without a hospital, so every hospital journey from here is a proper trip. Epsom Hospital, on Dorking Road about a kilometre south-east of Epsom town centre, is run by the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and is the one most Bookham patients see. We also run to the Surrey hospitals and to the central London teaching hospitals.
Our medical appointment transport is built around how hospital days really run. Clinics overrun. Discharges happen when they happen. We will hold an open return, and we would rather you rang to say you are two hours late than sat worrying about the car. If the patient should not be left alone at the door, say so when you book and the driver will see them in.
Bookham is commuter country, and a lot of its business travel starts at a front door at six in the morning. That is the profile a company account suits: named bookers, nothing paid at the kerb, one invoice at the end of the month.
For client collections, weddings at Polesden Lacey 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. We also run a same-day courier service for things that have to be somewhere today and are not people.
Bookham sits in the middle of the Leatherhead-to-Guildford chain, so we run in both directions daily.
The branch locator will tell you which of our offices is closest to any address, and Find Us lists them all.
| From Bookham to | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport (via A24) | 18.0 miles | ~36 min |
| Heathrow Airport | 23.0 miles | ~46 min |
| Gatwick Airport (via M25 and M23) | 24.4 miles | ~32 min |
| London Waterloo by train | 20 miles 45 chains | — |
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 the wedding. One office in Church Road, one account, one number: 01372 727 727.
This is the part that actually decides whether a car turns up on time in a village. A firm operating Bookham from twenty miles away is sending cars on a twenty-mile empty leg before your journey starts, and when it goes wrong there is nobody local to fix it. Our office is at the station. A person answers it at any hour and can see where the car is.
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, and 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 actually want is a car and a driver for a day — a day of appointments, a funeral, a wedding, a day of viewings — ring the office and we will price it as a day booking.
01372 727 727 — our office at Bookham railway station, Church Road, Great Bookham, KT23 3JG, answered by a person twenty-four hours a day. 01372 747 747 is the Epsom head office.
Yes — at the railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham. It is one of our branch offices, not a diverted line. That is why cars reach Bookham addresses quickly and why the drivers know Little Bookham’s lanes and the Commons.
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 at that hour and they cover a wide area. Early flights and late returns should always be booked ahead.
About 32 minutes for 24.4 miles via the M25 and M23, measured on 26 September 2026. There is a shorter route down the A24 — 18.0 miles — but it takes about 36 minutes, so the driver will usually take the longer, quicker one.
About 46 minutes for 23.0 miles up the M25. Heathrow is 1.4 miles closer than Gatwick and takes roughly fourteen minutes longer, which surprises most people and is the clearest reason we quote journeys rather than mileage.
Yes. Effingham adjoins Little Bookham to the west, and we cover it along with East Horsley, West Horsley and the Clandons. Ring the Bookham office on 01372 727 727.
Yes, and it is a regular run for us. For a wedding or an event, book the return before the day rather than on it — the lanes up to the estate are narrow and the car park fills, so a car arriving to a plan is worth considerably more than one arriving on spec.
Yes. Tell us the name — including the Isle of Wight, the group of dwellings within the Commons reached by Common Road — and the driver will know it. It is the address a firm from outside the village is most likely to get wrong.
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.
Yes, as standing term-time bookings with the same driver wherever the rota allows, to schools in Leatherhead, Effingham, Dorking and Guildford as well as Manor House School in Little Bookham. Drivers carrying children are licensed and DBS-checked, and seats are provided if you give us the child’s age and weight when you book.
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 01372 727 727 with the pickup, the destination and the time, and you will have a fixed figure before you commit.
Call 01372 727 727 for a Bookham taxi, or book online and we will confirm the car and the price. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, from an office at the station in Church Road.
Bookham taxis, Bookham cabs, Bookham minicabs — taxis in Bookham and cabs in Bookham for Gatwick, Heathrow, the station, the school run and the hospital appointment, across KT23, Great Bookham, Little Bookham, the Commons and Effingham. A local office, licensed drivers, and a price agreed before you travel.
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