The Morden number is 0208 330 1234. Clocktower Cars is a licensed private hire operator covering Morden, Lower Morden, St Helier, Cannon Hill, Merton Park and Ravensbury, 24 hours a day. Book online or ask for a fixed quote if you would rather see the price first.
Whether you want a taxi in Morden for the morning run to the Tube, minicabs in Morden for a group going to the airport, cabs in Morden at closing time, or a wheelchair taxi in Morden for a hospital appointment, it is one office and one fleet. The words differ; the service does not.
Morden sits in the London Borough of Merton on the SM4 postcode, with SW19 and SW20 reaching in at the edges. It has something no other place we cover has: the end of the Northern line. That single fact shapes most of the taxi work here, and it is where this page starts.
We will be straight about this: we do not have a shopfront on Morden High Street. Our nearest offices are at 5 Carshalton Road in Sutton and at Trident Court on Oakcroft Road in Chessington, and Morden is covered from both, plus the Kingston office to the north-west. Cars are in the area continuously rather than dispatched from a distance when you ring.
What that gives you is the local knowledge without the pretence. The office knows that the A24 through Morden backs up past the Underground station at rush hour, that Morden Hall Park’s car park is not where you want to be met, and that “St Helier” can mean the estate, the station or the hospital depending on who is asking.
We are a private hire operator, so every journey is pre-booked rather than hailed in the street or taken from a rank. In practice that is what most people want anyway: you know the car is coming, roughly what it will cost before you travel, and the booking is on record. Drivers are licensed and DBS-checked; vehicles are licensed and insured for private hire.
The stretch of the A24 around the Underground station, the bus station and the shops. Busy, well served by buses, and the pickup point most people default to — though a side street is usually quicker than the London Road itself at peak times.
West towards Motspur Park and Worcester Park, quieter and further from the Tube — which is exactly why standing bookings and school runs cluster here rather than in the centre. Worcester Park is the next stop along.
The large inter-war estate straddling the Merton and Sutton boundary, with its own Thameslink station and St Helier Hospital a short run away on Wrythe Lane. A lot of our Morden work is hospital-related and starts here.
North and east towards Wimbledon and Mitcham, along the Wandle. Merton Park and Morden Road both have tram stops, which changes the calculation for short local hops. Neighbouring areas we also cover include Carshalton, Hackbridge, Cheam, North Cheam and Kingston.
Morden Underground is the southern terminus of the Northern line and the most southerly station on the entire London Underground network. It handles roughly 8.3 million entries and exits a year, and it sits in Zone 4 — which is the whole reason so many people from further out in Surrey drive or take a taxi to Morden rather than starting their journey from home.
This is our single most requested Morden journey, in both directions: the morning drop before the Tube, and the collection at the other end of a long day. It is a short run, and that is the point — it is short, it is repeatable, and doing it by car costs less than a day in a car park.
The station front on London Road is a bus station as much as anything, so it is not always the quickest place to stop. Tell us if you would rather be collected on a side road nearby and we will agree a spot when you book — far better than a driver circling while you stand in the bus lane.
Morden has three Thameslink stations as well as the Tube, all on the Sutton Loop and all in Zone 4. Morden South runs roughly two trains an hour each way — north towards St Albans City, south to Sutton — with some late services continuing to Bedford and Sunday trains reaching Luton.
The practical difference is simple. The Tube takes you into central London frequently and reliably. Thameslink takes you north through London without changing, which is the better option for St Pancras, Luton or anywhere on that line. Tell us where you are actually going and we will drop you at the one that suits.
Morden Road and Merton Park tram stops put Wimbledon and Croydon within easy reach on Tramlink. For a short hop it is often the sensible choice; for luggage, an early start or a late finish, it usually is not. We cover both cases.
| From Morden | Distance | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|
| Gatwick | 22.3 miles | ~37 min |
| Heathrow (via the M25) | 29.8 miles | ~43 min |
| Heathrow (through London) | 18.5 miles | ~45 min |
Look at those last two rows again. Going through London to Heathrow is eleven miles shorter and about two minutes slower — and far less predictable, because it depends on traffic through Wimbledon, Richmond and Hounslow rather than on a motorway. We normally take the longer M25 route for flights for exactly that reason. If you would rather we went the short way, say so when you book.
Gatwick is closer, but only by six minutes or so — much tighter than anywhere further south in our area, where Gatwick usually wins by a quarter of an hour. Morden is close to the point where the two airports draw level. If you have a choice of departure airport, it is worth comparing on price and flight time rather than assuming. See Gatwick transfers and Heathrow transfers.
One cost worth knowing before you travel: Heathrow charges a flat £7 to enter a terminal drop-off zone, while Gatwick starts at £10 for ten minutes and then charges by the minute. Luton, Stansted, London City and the cruise ports at Southampton, Dover and Tilbury are all covered too — see all airport transfers.
St Helier Hospital, on Wrythe Lane, is the nearest general hospital to much of Morden and shares its site with Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children. The Trust’s own guidance is blunt about the car park: parking is limited, and it asks people to use another way of getting there where possible. That is the whole argument for a taxi to an appointment.
You are dropped at the entrance rather than circling while your appointment time passes, and nobody is paying to leave a car there all afternoon. For collections, ring when the patient is genuinely ready to leave rather than booking a time and hoping — discharges rarely happen when anyone predicted. We also run to the Royal Marsden at Sutton, Epsom Hospital and St George’s at Tooting.
Morden Hall Park is 125 acres of National Trust parkland on the River Wandle, with a rose garden of more than two thousand roses and the old snuff mill buildings. It is free to enter but its car park fills quickly at weekends and in rose season, which is when a car there and back makes more sense than a slow lap looking for a space.
Morden Park holds the eighteenth-century Georgian house that now serves as the borough’s register office — so a good share of our Morden bookings are wedding parties, with guests arriving in groups and a timetable that does not move. Say at the time of booking that it is a wedding and how many cars you need, and we will plan it properly rather than treating it as a string of separate jobs. St Lawrence Church, Grade I listed and dating from the 1630s, sits at the highest point in Morden and takes its share too.
Baitul Futuh on London Road is the largest mosque in Western Europe, completed in 2003, and it draws numbers that ordinary local parking cannot absorb — particularly for Friday prayers and during Ramadan and Eid.
For large gatherings the practical advice is the same as for any event: book ahead, agree a pickup point away from the immediate frontage, and if several people are travelling together tell us so we can send one larger vehicle rather than three cars into the same congested street.
Morden’s schools draw across the Merton and Sutton boundary, and plenty of pupils cross it daily. A standing booking is set up once and then runs to the school calendar — same pickup, same times, term-time only, with a named regular driver wherever the rota allows. Most parents would rather see the same face at the gate than a different car each week.
Drivers carrying children are licensed and DBS-checked. Child seats and boosters are provided when requested at the time of booking — give us the child’s age and we bring the right one. Where a child travels alone, we agree in advance exactly who hands over and who receives at each end.
Some families qualify for council-funded home-to-school transport: broadly, a child under eight living more than two miles from school, a child of eight or over more than three miles away, a child with SEND or mobility needs, or one with no safe walking route. That is arranged through the council rather than through us, and worth checking before paying privately. More on travelling with children.
We run wheelchair-accessible vehicles, and they need requesting when you book rather than hoping on the day — there are fewer of them than saloons, so notice genuinely helps.
Beyond the vehicle, the detail is usually what matters: a driver who comes to the door rather than waiting at the kerb, helps with a folding chair or a frame, allows time rather than hovering, and knows which hospital entrance is the right one. If you are booking for a parent or relative, tell us once what would make the journey easier and it stays on the booking. See accessible travel with Clocktower Cars.
We run pet-friendly journeys — the vet trip, the cattery drop, the move, the airport run with a dog in the back. Say what animal is travelling when you book, roughly what size, and whether it will be in a carrier or crate, and we will send a suitable driver and vehicle. Carriers make everything easier, and for a nervous animal the boot is usually kinder than the back seat.
Morden’s Zone 4 Tube link makes it a practical base for people working in central London, and that cuts both ways: when the Northern line is disrupted, the car becomes the fallback for a whole office at once.
Accounts open through our account application, and there is more on executive and corporate travel. Ordinary bookings take card, cash or account.
The Northern line runs late and the Night Tube runs later still at weekends, but it stops at Morden — and for a lot of people Morden is not the destination, it is the point where the journey becomes a problem. That last leg, at one in the morning, with no buses worth waiting for, is ordinary work for us.
Two things help. Book ahead if you know roughly when you are leaving, because Friday and Saturday nights are our busiest hours. And check the car when it arrives: you booked a private hire vehicle, so the driver should already know your name and destination. A car that pulls up unbooked and offers a lift is not us.
Call 0208 330 1234, any hour. Quickest for anything urgent, complicated or happening now.
Book online at any time, or request a fixed quote first if you would rather know the price before committing. Every branch and number is on our find us page.
Say it once when you book and it stays on the job, so it never needs repeating to the driver on the doorstep.
0208 330 1234, answered 24 hours a day. You can also book online or request a fixed quote first. We are a private hire operator, so every journey is pre-booked — we cannot be flagged down in the street or taken from a rank.
Yes — it is our most frequent Morden journey, in both directions. Morden Underground is the southern terminus of the Northern line and sits in Zone 4. The station frontage doubles as a bus station, so if you would rather be collected from a quieter side road nearby, agree the spot with us when you book.
Gatwick, but only just. Gatwick is about 22 miles and 37 minutes; Heathrow is about 30 miles and 43 minutes by the M25. Morden is close to the point where the two draw level, so unlike towns further south it is worth comparing flights at both rather than assuming Gatwick.
Morden Underground for central London on the Northern line. Morden South, South Merton or St Helier for Thameslink, which runs north through London without a change — better for St Pancras or Luton. All are in Zone 4. Morden Road and Merton Park tram stops serve Wimbledon and Croydon.
Yes, every day, including early-hours airport departures and late-night collections after the Tube. Friday and Saturday nights are the busiest period, so book ahead where you can.
Yes. Wheelchair-accessible vehicles are available and should be requested at the time of booking, as there are fewer of them than standard cars. Tell us what assistance would help — a door-to-door collection, help with a folding chair, or which hospital entrance you need — and it is recorded on the booking.
Yes, we run pet-friendly journeys. Mention the animal when you book, with its size and whether it travels in a carrier or crate, so we can send a suitable vehicle.
In everyday speech people use all three for the same thing, and we answer to all of them. In licensing terms there is a real distinction: a hackney carriage can be hailed in the street or taken from a rank, while a private hire vehicle — what most people mean by a minicab — must be booked in advance through a licensed operator. Clocktower Cars is a private hire operator, so whether you search for taxis in Morden, minicabs in Morden or cabs in Morden, the answer is the same: book ahead and the car is yours.
Morden town centre, Lower Morden, St Helier, Cannon Hill, Merton Park and Ravensbury, plus Carshalton, Hackbridge, Sutton, Cheam, North Cheam, Worcester Park, Wimbledon, Mitcham and Kingston. Morden is in the London Borough of Merton on the SM4 postcode.
Call 0208 330 1234, book online, or get a fixed quote before you travel. Station runs to Morden Underground, airport transfers, hospital appointments, school runs, accessible vehicles, pets and corporate accounts — 24 hours a day across SM4.
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