The Ashtead taxi number is 01372 747 747. Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator covering Ashtead, Ashtead Park, Lower Ashtead and the roads either side of The Street, twenty-four hours a day. The cars are dispatched from our head office at the Epsom Clock Tower, two and a half miles up the A24 — which is about as local as a taxi office gets without being in the village itself.
Whether you want a taxi in Ashtead for the 07:20 to Waterloo, Ashtead taxis for a Gatwick flight, cabs in Ashtead after a night in Epsom, minicabs in Ashtead for a school run or a wheelchair taxi in Ashtead for a hospital appointment, it is one office and one number. Book online or call for a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
Three ways to book an Ashtead taxi
1. Call — 01372 747 747, 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 Ashtead addresses. Details on our find us page.
Ashtead has one station and it does a great deal of work for a village this size. It is served by both Southern and South Western Railway, sits between Epsom and Leatherhead, and is about sixteen miles from London Waterloo.
Off-peak the timetable runs roughly:
Four trains an hour into two different London termini from a Surrey village is unusual, and it explains a lot about Ashtead. It also explains what the taxi work here looks like.
The station approach is narrow and residential. Give us your train’s arrival time rather than your ticket time and we will bring the car in as you come off the platform, rather than sit in somebody’s way for ten minutes.
Ashtead is four minutes from the M25 at Leatherhead, which decides everything about its airport position.
About 21.9 miles and roughly 28 minutes on the M25 and M23. There is a shorter route of 19.9 miles straight down through Reigate, but it takes about 33 minutes, so the motorway usually wins. Our Gatwick airport transfers page covers the terminals and the pickup points.
About 23.3 miles and roughly 45 minutes on the M25 anticlockwise from junction 9. Almost the same distance as Gatwick, and seventeen minutes longer — because the M25 between junctions 9 and 12 is one of the least predictable stretches of road in the country, and because the approach to Heathrow queues even when the motorway does not.
Practical conclusion: if your flight goes from either, Gatwick is the easier airport from Ashtead, and for a morning Heathrow departure we will suggest leaving earlier than the map says. See our airport transfers page for the wider picture.
All covered and all quoted before you travel. Luton and Stansted both mean the full M25 arc, so departure time matters far more than mileage. Southampton and Portsmouth for cruises run straight down the A3 and are a steady summer booking from Ashtead.
We track the flight, so a delay does not lose you the car and an early landing does not leave you waiting. Choose a meet and greet inside arrivals with a name board, or a cheaper kerbside pickup — our meet and greet page explains both. The price is agreed before you fly either way.
A straight answer, because a lot of people reach this page looking for something we do not do. We are not a car hire or van hire firm. We do not rent self-drive vehicles in Ashtead, and if that is what you need, this is not the right page.
What we do is send a car with a licensed driver in it, pre-booked, at an agreed price. For a single journey — an airport, a hospital appointment, a day of meetings, a night out — that is almost always simpler and often cheaper than hiring, insuring, fuelling and parking a car you then have to return. If you want a driver for a whole day rather than a single trip, ask; we quote that as a day booking.
We do not publish a price list, and the Gatwick and Heathrow figures above show why. Two airports at almost identical distances from Ashtead, seventeen minutes apart in practice. Any per-mile rate would be wrong on one of them.
Four things set a fare, and only one of them is distance:
So the useful answer is a quote for your journey, given before you commit. Ring 01372 747 747 or get a fixed price online.
Ashtead Common covers nearly 495 acres of woodland north of the village, and it is a more serious piece of landscape than most people realise. The City of London Corporation has owned and managed it since the 1870s, when it was bought out of concern that countryside near London was disappearing. It has been part of the Epsom and Ashtead Commons Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1955 and a National Nature Reserve since 1995, with 180.5 hectares under that designation.
What makes it a nature reserve is the trees: over 2,300 pollarded oaks, between 300 and 400 years old, and the rare deadwood invertebrates that live in them. There are also the remains of a Roman villa and tile works on the common, both scheduled ancient monuments.
The common has several entrances and they are a long way apart. When you book, name the one you want — Woodfield Lane, the Rye Brook side, or the top by the station — rather than just “Ashtead Common”, and the driver goes straight there.
The best use of a local taxi in Ashtead, and the one nobody thinks of, is the point-to-point walk: dropped at one end, collected at the other, no doubling back to a car. Pre-book both ends on 01372 747 747, because the collection point usually has no passing trade at all. And if you are coming back muddy or with a wet dog, say so when you book — nobody minds, the driver just wants to know.
With 495 acres of common on the doorstep, a good share of our Ashtead passengers have a dog with them. We carry pets when the booking says so — that caveat is the whole point, because a driver told in advance brings a suitable car and no objection, and a driver surprised at the kerbside is a problem for everybody. Tell us the size and whether the animal is crated or loose. Assistance dogs travel as of right. See our pet-friendly taxis page.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles across Ashtead and the surrounding villages. A wheelchair taxi in Ashtead 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 arrives.
Whether the chair folds and the passenger transfers into a seat, or whether it travels occupied with the passenger strapped in — these are different vehicles. Tell us about steps, gravel drives and narrow gates at both ends as well, because a great many Ashtead houses have all three. Our wheelchair-accessible minicab page sets out the vehicles and the driver training.
Epsom General is eleven minutes up the A24 and is the regular one. Leatherhead Hospital is closer still; the Royal Marsden at Belmont, St Helier at Carshalton and East Surrey at Redhill are all within a straightforward run. The return leg is what 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. Ring 01372 747 747 and say it is a hospital run; our medical appointment transport page covers how these work.
Ashtead’s school run goes in every direction. Some children walk to the village schools; a great many travel out to Epsom, Leatherhead, Bookham, Sutton or Guildford, and the selective and independent schools in this part of Surrey draw from a wide radius. That means real distances, every morning, on the A24.
We run school taxis in Ashtead 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 counts for 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 explains how the contracts work.
Where two or three Ashtead families send children to the same school, a shared contract usually makes sense. Ask and we will work out whether the route holds together.
Ashtead is a commuter village with four trains an hour into two London termini, which tells you most of what you need to know about who lives here and how often they travel. We run corporate taxi accounts across the village and the surrounding area.
Staff book without handling money, every journey is 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 will not wait for a carrier.
Checked on Google Maps on 25 September 2026 for a clear road. A planning guide rather than a promise — the A24 and the M25 both behave very differently at half past eight in the morning. When you book we will give you a pickup time that allows for the actual day.
| From Ashtead to | Distance | Typical clear-road time | Usual route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatwick Airport | 21.9 miles | about 28 minutes | M25 and M23 |
| Gatwick Airport (alternative) | 19.9 miles | about 33 minutes | M23 via Reigate |
| Heathrow Airport | 23.3 miles | about 45 minutes | M25 from junction 9 |
| Leatherhead | 2.4 miles | about 7 minutes | A24 |
| Epsom | 2.5 miles | about 11 minutes | A24 |
The two airports are 1.4 miles apart in distance and seventeen minutes apart in time. Gatwick is the easier airport from Ashtead, and it is not close.
Note also the two short hops. Epsom and Leatherhead are almost exactly the same distance from Ashtead, and Epsom takes about four minutes longer — the sort of difference that only shows up when you drive both regularly, and the sort a local controller allows for when giving you a pickup time.
Ashtead is in Mole Valley, Surrey, in the KT21 postcode, sitting between Epsom and Leatherhead on the A24. Almost everything within ten minutes of it has a page of its own.
| Area | Where it is | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Epsom | 2.5 miles north, our head office | Epsom taxis |
| Leatherhead | 2.4 miles south-west | Leatherhead taxis |
| Fetcham | West, beyond Leatherhead | Fetcham taxis |
| Bookham | West, on the Guildford line | Bookham taxis |
| Ewell | North-east, beyond Epsom | Ewell cabs |
| Banstead | East, over the Downs | Banstead taxis |
| Tadworth | South-east | Tadworth taxis |
| Chipstead | East, in the valley | Chipstead taxis |
| Dorking | South, three trains an hour from Ashtead | Dorking taxis |
| Guildford | West, one train an hour from Ashtead | Guildford taxis |
| Sutton | North-east, over the borough line | Sutton taxis |
Also covered without a page of their own: Ashtead Park, Lower Ashtead, Headley, Langley Vale, Walton on the Hill and Epsom Downs.
Ashtead and Epsom are two and a half miles apart and we cover both from the same office — the Epsom Clock Tower is where the Ashtead cars come from. But if your journey starts and ends in Epsom rather than Ashtead, our Epsom taxis page is the one written for you, with Epsom station, Epsom General, the Downs and the racecourse covered properly.
Three names for the same thing, and one number for all of them: 01372 747 747. Ashtead station taxis, a local taxi in Ashtead, an airport run, a school contract or a wheelchair booking all go through the same office and the same controllers. What differs is not the word you use but whether the car is there at the time it said it would be.
There is no objective best taxi service in Ashtead and we will not claim to be it. When you are choosing between Ashtead taxi firms, this is the short list worth comparing.
Ashtead work is dispatched from the Epsom Clock Tower office, eleven minutes up the A24, by controllers who know that Ashtead runs a long way either side of the railway, that the common has several entrances, and which lanes off Barnett Wood Lane will not take an eight-seater. That is local knowledge and it does not come out of a mapping algorithm.
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 great 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 on the A24, and no surge pricing when it rains.
Our branches run from Kingston and Sutton in the north down through Epsom, Banstead and Reigate to Guildford and Godalming. A booking in Ashtead and one in Leatherhead go through the same system, which matters for school contracts, corporate accounts and anything crossing a boundary. 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.
01372 747 747, our head office at the Epsom Clock Tower, two and a half miles up the A24. It is answered twenty-four hours a day by a person.
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.
No. We are a private hire operator, not a rental company — we send a car with a licensed driver in it, pre-booked and at an agreed price. For a single journey that is usually simpler than hiring a vehicle you then have to insure, fuel, park and return. If you want a driver for a whole day rather than one trip, ask and we will quote it as a day booking.
About 28 minutes for 21.9 miles on the M25 and M23 with a clear road. Allow more at commuter times, and for a flight we build a margin into the pickup time rather than working to the map.
About 45 minutes for 23.3 miles on the M25 from junction 9. That is barely any further than Gatwick in distance and seventeen minutes longer in practice, because of the M25 between junctions 9 and 12. For a morning departure, allow more again.
Southern and South Western Railway both serve it. Off-peak that is roughly two trains an hour to London Victoria via Sutton, two an hour to London Waterloo via Wimbledon, three an hour to Dorking with one continuing to Horsham, and one an hour to Guildford. The station is about sixteen miles from Waterloo.
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 why every journey has a record and a clear insurance position behind it. More on our minicab versus black cab page.
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. With 495 acres of common on the doorstep, this comes up a great deal in Ashtead.
Yes. Name the entrance when you book rather than just saying the common — it covers nearly 495 acres and the entrances are a long way apart. For a point-to-point walk, book the drop-off and the collection together, because the far end usually has no passing trade at all.
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 Epsom, Banstead, Tadworth, Chipstead, Headley and Walton on the Hill. Each of the main ones has a page of its own: Leatherhead, Bookham and Fetcham.
Call 01372 747 747
Twenty-four hours a day, from our Epsom Clock Tower office two and a half miles up the A24.
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