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Moving from London to Greater Manchester the long corridor, priced straight
Around two hundred road miles and four hours of loaded driving. This is the longest domestic corridor we run as a standard same-day job, and the one where the departure time, not the price list, decides whether you sleep in your own bed.
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- One crew loads and unloads — no depot transfer
The route
London to Greater Manchester Full-length haul, departure time is everything
Greater Manchester is 195 to 210 road miles from central London — about £300 of the price is road before anyone lifts a box. Four hours of driving means an early start, one crew and one load, all on the published formula.
- Road miles from central London
- 195–210Road miles from central London
- Loaded driving each way
- 4 hrsLoaded driving each way
- Major towns priced below
- 10Major towns priced below
- Of the price is road mileage
- ~£300Of the price is road mileage
How it works
Three steps and a price that holds
Volume, access and a realistic start time
We agree a seven or eight o'clock London start, because on a 200-mile run the clock is the constraint, not the price list.
One-day or two-day, decided honestly
Most 1- to 3-bed homes are a single long day. Larger homes we quote as a two-day run with an overnight, and we say why.
Same crew, M1 or M6, unloaded and rebuilt
Four hours up, then beds and wardrobes reassembled at the far end before the crew leaves.
Why us
Why this corridor runs differently full-length haul, departure time is everything
At roughly two hundred miles the road leg is around £300, so for the first time mileage rivals crew time as the biggest line on the bill. It also consumes four hours of the working day before a single item is carried into the new house. That is why a Manchester job is planned backwards from the unload: to finish in daylight, the London load has to be complete by about half past nine, which usually means a crew on site at seven.
The counterintuitive part is that Greater Manchester's internal geography barely changes your price. Stockport at 195 miles and Bolton at 210 differ by £22 of road cost — under five per cent on a typical 3-bed. What genuinely changes the number is whether the job runs as one long day or as a two-day run with an overnight, which we price at £220 and recommend for 4- and 5-bed homes where four hours of driving plus a full unload is more than one crew should safely do.
Planned backwards from the unload
Four hours of driving means the London load must finish by half nine. We book the crew at seven so your Manchester unload lands in daylight.
Distance inside the county is noise
Stockport to Bolton is £22 apart on the formula. We do not inflate outer-borough prices — the number is the same sum with a different mileage.
Two-day runs, honestly recommended
On 4- and 5-bed homes we will tell you a two-day run with an overnight (£220) is the safer job, rather than pushing one crew through fourteen hours.
No depot transfer at 200 miles
Long-haul is where other firms trans-ship your load. We do not: one crew loads in London and unloads in Salford.
Access notes we plan around in Greater Manchester
- Deansgate and Salford Quays towers: service-lift slots booked in advance, typically a two-hour window.
- Oldham and Rochdale: steep Pennine-edge streets limit where a loaded 18-tonne can safely stop.
- Manchester city centre: timed loading restrictions apply on several central streets.
- M6 and M62: the two junctions that decide the clock, and therefore the billable crew hours.
Transparent mileage pricing
London to Greater Manchester guide prices the sum, not just the total
The formula
£65/hour crew time + £1.50/road mile
One hour loading and one hour unloading are included as the baseline for a 1-bed, and crew hours scale with bedrooms from there. Every guide price below is that sum with the town's verified road mileage in it.
Guide prices from London to Greater Manchester
- London to Stockport£555
195 road miles · about 3 hrs 50 · same-day run
1-bed £425 · 2-bed £555 · 3-bed £685 · 4-bed £815
Closest of the ten — M6 then M60 south
- London to Altrincham£555
196 road miles · about 3 hrs 55 · same-day run
1-bed £425 · 2-bed £555 · 3-bed £685 · 4-bed £815
M56, wide suburban access
- London to Manchester£560
200 road miles · about 4 hrs · same-day run
1-bed £430 · 2-bed £560 · 3-bed £690 · 4-bed £820
City-centre apartments need booked lifts
- London to Ashton-under-Lyne£565
202 road miles · about 4 hrs · same-day run
1-bed £435 · 2-bed £565 · 3-bed £695 · 4-bed £825
M60 east, terraced street loading
- London to Salford£565
202 road miles · about 4 hrs · same-day run
1-bed £435 · 2-bed £565 · 3-bed £695 · 4-bed £825
Quays towers — service-lift slots essential
- London to Oldham£570
205 road miles · about 4 hrs 5 · same-day run
1-bed £440 · 2-bed £570 · 3-bed £700 · 4-bed £830
Steep Pennine-edge streets
- London to Bury£570
208 road miles · about 4 hrs 10 · same-day run
1-bed £440 · 2-bed £570 · 3-bed £700 · 4-bed £830
M66, mixed terraces and semis
- London to Wigan£570
208 road miles · about 4 hrs 10 · same-day run
1-bed £440 · 2-bed £570 · 3-bed £700 · 4-bed £830
M6 J25, straightforward vehicle access
- London to Rochdale£575
209 road miles · about 4 hrs 10 · same-day run
1-bed £445 · 2-bed £575 · 3-bed £705 · 4-bed £835
M62, gradient on the older streets
- London to Bolton£575
210 road miles · about 4 hrs 15 · same-day run
1-bed £445 · 2-bed £575 · 3-bed £705 · 4-bed £835
Furthest listed — £22 above Stockport
The working, shown: London to Stockport (195 road miles)
- Studio or single room£425
2 hrs x £65 = £130, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Two movers · Luton van
- 1-bed home£425
2 hrs x £65 = £130, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Two movers · Luton van
- 2-bed home£555
4 hrs x £65 = £260, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Two movers · Luton or 7.5t
- 3-bed home£685
6 hrs x £65 = £390, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Three movers · 7.5t lorry
- 4-bed home£815
8 hrs x £65 = £520, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Three movers · 7.5t or 18t lorry
- 5-bed home£945
10 hrs x £65 = £650, plus 195 miles x £1.50 = £293
Four movers · 18t lorry
Published add-ons
- Each additional crew hour£65
Billed in 30-minute blocks, both ends
- Full packing service£180
Materials and labour, priced from room count
- Boxes and materials delivered£45
Starter pack of 20, before moving day
- Dismantle and reassemble, per item£25
Beds, wardrobes and desks
- Overnight or interim storage, per week£35
Per pallet-sized load, insured
- Two-day run with overnight stop£220
Driver overnight on 250-mile-plus routes
- Piano, safe or specialist item£150
Extra crew and equipment, quoted on survey
Guide prices, including VAT. Every price on this page is the same sum: £65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile, with one hour loading and one hour unloading included as the baseline. VAT, fuel, blankets, straps, transit insurance and the driver's lifting help are inside it. Congestion Charge, ULEZ and any suspended-bay fee are quoted with the price, never added afterwards.
- Nearest listed town: Stockport, 195 road miles — £293 of road cost.
- Furthest listed town: Bolton, 210 road miles — £315 of road cost.
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Price your London to Greater Manchester long-distance move
Same formula we quote from: £65 an hour of crew time plus £1.50 a road mile.
Your fixed price
£560
4 hrs x £65 = £260, plus 200 miles x £1.50 = £300
Two movers · Luton or 7.5t · Manchester run, about 4 hrs driving · includes VAT
Send your two postcodes and we confirm the exact road miles and crew hours — the sum, not just the total.
Coverage
Where we deliver in Greater Manchester every town and village
- Stockport
- Altrincham
- Manchester
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Salford
- Oldham
- Bury
- Wigan
- Rochdale
- Bolton
We deliver anywhere in Greater Manchester — every town and village, priced by the same formula.
Other moving services
The rest of the move same crews, same pricing
- House RemovalsPriced from the same published rates, nationwide.
- Man with a VanPriced from the same published rates, nationwide.
- Office RemovalsPriced from the same published rates, nationwide.
- Packing ServicesPriced from the same published rates, nationwide.
- Rubbish & House ClearancePriced from the same published rates, nationwide.
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About the destination
About Greater Manchester in brief
Greater Manchester is the largest urban area outside London: 2.9 million people across ten boroughs, from Wigan in the west to Oldham on the Pennine edge. A decade of tower building around Deansgate and Salford Quays, plus the media and tech employers at MediaCity, has made it the single most common long-distance destination we are asked about. Two hundred miles up the M1 or M6, it is also the furthest we will still run as a standard one-day move.
At a glance
Greater Manchester at a glance the route, in numbers
- Nearest town
- Stockport, 195 miles
- £293 of road cost on the formula
- Furthest town
- Bolton, 210 miles
- £315 of road cost on the formula
- Typical run
- One long day
- 7am London start, evening unload
- Main roads
- M1 · M6 · M60
- Four hours loaded, each way
- Two-day option
- £220
- Recommended for 4- and 5-bed homes
- Booking notice
- 10–14 days
- The longest lead time we ask for
Questions
London to Greater Manchester answered
A 2-bed home to Manchester (200 road miles) is £560 on the published formula: four crew hours at £65 plus two hundred miles at £1.50. A 1-bed is £430 and a 3-bed is £690. VAT, fuel, blankets, transit insurance and the crew's lifting are included.
For most 1- to 3-bed homes, yes — with a seven o'clock London start. Four hours of loaded driving still leaves a daylight unload. For 4- and 5-bed homes we recommend a two-day run with an overnight stop at £220.
By £22 of road cost on the formula — fifteen miles at £1.50. Under five per cent on a typical 3-bed. We do not price outer boroughs as if they were a different service.
Never. One crew loads in London, drives the M1 or M6, and unloads at your Greater Manchester address. Nothing is trans-shipped at a depot en route.
We deliver anywhere in Greater Manchester — every town and village, priced by the same formula. The ten towns above are simply the destinations we run most.
£220 covers the driver's overnight and the second day's start. The crew hours and road miles are still billed on the same formula; the overnight is the only additional line.
Towers around Deansgate and Salford Quays require a booked service-lift slot, usually a two-hour window. We arrange it with the building manager before the day so the crew is not queuing with a loaded lorry outside.
Ten to fourteen days. A 400-mile round trip commits a crew and a large vehicle for a full day or two, so these are the first slots to go in any given week.
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