1 man and a van
£45/hour
Driver-porter with a Luton or long-wheelbase van. Best for studios, single rooms and part-loads from a ground or first floor.
Manchester · M14 · Manchester City Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of M14, priced on hours and miles: £45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van, £1.50 per mile, with 1.5 hours of loading and unloading already included.
As a worked example, Fallowfield to Cardiff is about 177 road miles and 3.4 hours driving — roughly £490 with one man and a van, or £585 with two movers.

Long distance · Fallowfield
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Fallowfield
Long distance removals in Fallowfield run door to door — nothing is trans-shipped through a depot. The estimate is driving time at £45/hr (one man and a van) or £65/hr (two movers and a van), £1.50 per mile, plus the standard 1.5 hours for loading and unloading.
Large Victorian and Edwardian semis subdivided into six- and eight-bed HMOs, plus purpose-built halls. That stock decides the crew size more than the distance does: a top-floor flat with no lift is usually a two-mover job even if the run is short, while a ground-floor terrace with a driveway can go on a single van and driver.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Fallowfield will price better.
Published rate card
£45/hour
Driver-porter with a Luton or long-wheelbase van. Best for studios, single rooms and part-loads from a ground or first floor.
£65/hour
Two-person crew loading together. Halves the handling time and the right call for a two-bed and up, or any upper floor without a lift.
£1.5/mile
Charged one way on the travelled distance and covers fuel, motorway tolls, crossings and vehicle running costs.
Every estimate on this page already includes 1.5 hours of loading and unloading. Extra time runs in 15-minute blocks at the same hourly rate — never rounded up to the hour.
Sample routes, real distances
Estimated from the door in Fallowfield to the door at the other end, using measured road distance and a 52 mph blended average. Loading and unloading time (1.5 hrs) and mileage at £1.5 are already inside every figure.
| Destination | Miles | Driving | Billable hours | 1 man + van | 2 movers + van |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallowfield to LeedsWest Yorkshire | 46 mi | 0.9 hrs | 2.4 hrs | £180 | £225 |
| Fallowfield to NottinghamNottinghamshire | 69 mi | 1.3 hrs | 2.8 hrs | £230 | £290 |
| Fallowfield to YorkNorth Yorkshire | 73 mi | 1.4 hrs | 2.9 hrs | £240 | £300 |
| Fallowfield to LeicesterLeicestershire | 90 mi | 1.7 hrs | 3.2 hrs | £280 | £345 |
| Fallowfield to CardiffSouth Wales | 177 mi | 3.4 hrs | 4.9 hrs | £490 | £585 |
| Fallowfield to NorwichNorfolk | 196 mi | 3.8 hrs | 5.3 hrs | £535 | £640 |
| Fallowfield to ExeterDevon | 246 mi | 4.7 hrs | 6.2 hrs | £650 | £775 |
| Fallowfield to BrightonEast Sussex | 252 mi | 4.8 hrs | 6.3 hrs | £665 | £790 |
Estimates, not invoices — send an inventory and the access details at both ends and we turn the number into a fixed door-to-door price we hold. Not on the list? Tell us where you are going and we will price it the same way.
No hidden maths
Step 1
Road miles divided by a 52 mph blended average — motorway plus the urban miles at each end.
Step 2
The standard loading and unloading allowance, added to the driving time before the hourly rate is applied.
Step 3
£45/hr for one man and a van, £65/hr for two movers and a van.
Step 4
Travel cost covering fuel, tolls and vehicle wear on the run out.
The formula: (road miles ÷ 52 mph + 1.5 hrs) × your hourly rate + (road miles × £1.5). A 200-mile run is therefore about 5.4 billable hours plus £300 of travel — roughly £545 with one man and a van, or £655 with two movers.
What the price buys
The team that loads in Fallowfield is the team that unloads at the other end. Nothing is handled at a depot or split across vehicles.
Every estimate already carries 90 minutes of loading and unloading. Extra time is charged in 15-minute blocks at the same hourly rate, never rounded up to the hour.
Travelled miles are billed at £1.50 each, one way. Fuel, motorway tolls and the Dartford or Mersey crossings are inside that figure — no surcharge on arrival.
£45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van. We recommend two for anything above a one-bed or an upper floor without a lift.
Blankets, straps, wardrobe rails, mattress bags and floor runners travel with every Fallowfield load, along with dismantling and reassembly of beds and flat-pack.
Goods-in-transit cover and £5m public liability apply from the moment the first item is lifted until the last box is placed.
Move day, start to finish
Stage 1
A video or on-site survey confirms the inventory, the access and the crew size. The estimate becomes a fixed door-to-door price. Local context matters here: a wealthy victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and hmos from the 1960s, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Booked most often on the M14 streets around The Fallowfield Campus.
Stage 3
The same van and crew drive the route. Anything over roughly 150 miles runs as a two-day schedule with a secure overnight hold. Crews run from Manchester, so Withington and Moss Side journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Booked most often on the M14 streets around The Fallowfield Campus.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. Local context matters here: a wealthy victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and hmos from the 1960s, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Large Victorian and Edwardian semis subdivided into six- and eight-bed HMOs, plus purpose-built halls. That stock, the street it sits on and the Manchester City Council rules over it decide how long the day takes — so all three are settled at survey, not on the morning.
Driveway loading makes these moves efficient. What moves the price is the loft, the garage and the shed, so the survey deliberately opens all three. Most Fallowfield properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Parking is arranged before the date is confirmed: we check the restriction on your street with Manchester City Council, book a suspension or a permit bay if the carry would otherwise be long, and tell you at survey what it adds. Most Fallowfield properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
We schedule Fallowfield jobs so the loading window sits outside the Manchester rush; end-of-month Fridays are the first dates to go, so book those two to three weeks out where you can. Local context matters here: a wealthy victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and hmos from the 1960s, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Floor and lift, stair turns, parking distance and anything oversized — those four set the price of a long distance move here far more than the M14 postcode does. Show us all four on the video survey and the figure is fixed. Manchester City Council loading rules on the M14 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Booked here week to week
If one of these looks like yours, say so when you enquire — we will quote it from the closest job we have already done in Manchester rather than starting from a blank form.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Fallowfield so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Platt Fields events, Curry Mile at the north end, and one of Europe's densest student populations — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Transparent breakdown
Packing the day before, a fixed collection window and a delivery slot you can give a landlord or a solicitor — with the mileage element shown separately on the quote. Booked most often on the M14 streets around The Fallowfield Campus.
£1.50 a mile
One loaded trip, priced from measured road miles and driving hours plus 1.5 hours handling — the estimate you see in the route table is the estimate we quote from. Roughly 7,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
One man and van, £45/hr
A driver and van for a room or a flat's worth of contents going a long way, at £45 an hour plus mileage rather than a full-crew day rate. Roughly 7,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Send the property size, access notes and dates. Photos of anything awkward in Fallowfield — stairs, narrow entries, permit bays — sharpen the price straight away.
The quote is fixed before anyone books time off work: labour, products and any extras listed separately, so you can cut the scope rather than the standard if the number is over budget.
Pick the day and window that suits you. Rounds are built geographically around Fallowfield, which is why the arrival time holds rather than drifting across the day.
The team works to the agreed spec, walks the finished work with you and only closes the job once you're happy. Anything missed, we come back.
A door-to-door UK relocation is only worth booking if the crew turns up, prices honestly and finishes the spec. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to in Fallowfield.
Everyone we send into a Fallowfield property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
Every job in Fallowfield is insured to £5m public liability, with goods-in-transit cover on anything we lift, load or take away.
You get the a door-to-door UK relocation price in writing before we start. Access, stair turns and parking are priced in up front, not added afterwards.
Slots are planned around Fallowfield traffic, permit zones and parking realities, so crews arrive inside the window we promised.
Loading in Manchester
Crews load from The Fallowfield Campus and Platt Fields Park and the streets around it under Manchester City Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach M14.
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The Fallowfield Campus and Platt Fields Park anchors the round we run through Fallowfield, and every long-distance move in Fallowfield on that round starts from the same local checklist. A wealthy Victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and HMOs from the 1960s — useful context when you are quoting surfaces, not square metres.
Our teams plan for one recurring Fallowfield issue: late-June checkout weeks create the region's sharpest end-of-tenancy peak. Platt Fields events, Curry Mile at the north end, and one of Europe's densest student populations — we plan access and arrival times around all of it. Coverage runs across M14 and the Manchester streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Fallowfield
1930s detached house, a street off The Fallowfield Campus and Platt Fields Park
2-person crew, 7 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: late-June checkout weeks create the region's sharpest end-of-tenancy peak, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Follow-up call at 48 hours confirmed nothing needed putting right.
Long distance moves — Fallowfield
two-bed terrace, the M14 side of Fallowfield
3-person crew, 3 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: late-June checkout weeks create the region's sharpest end-of-tenancy peak, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Customer moved straight to a repeat booking on the same round.
Long distance moves — Fallowfield
three-bed semi, Fallowfield, on our Manchester round
2-person crew, 5 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: late-June checkout weeks create the region's sharpest end-of-tenancy peak, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Agent accepted the property at check-out without a re-clean.
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Mentions long distance moves
The numbers behind a long distance moves quote here — how many homes we reach, which authority sets the rules, and how we perform across Greater Manchester.
About 17,100 usual residents across M14 and the streets bordering Fallowfield (ONS Census 2021).
About 7,300 homes reachable by a Fallowfield crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Manchester City Council sets the parking, permit and waste rules we work to here.
One of ten Greater Manchester boroughs we cover for long distance moves.
Greater Manchester rolling twelve-month average across all cleaning bookings.
Verified post-job reviews from Greater Manchester households and businesses.
Requests received before 4pm on a working day, measured region-wide.
Data updated · ONS 2025 release
Population last refreshed 3 August 2026 from ONS mid-year population estimates (Nomis) (2025 release). Sources: resident population for Fallowfield — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.35, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Manchester City Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts M14. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
Manchester's student heartland — the Owens Park corridor, Wilmslow Road buses and rows of shared houses. A wealthy Victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and HMOs from the 1960s.
Platt Fields events, Curry Mile at the north end, and one of Europe's densest student populations. The best-known landmark is The Fallowfield Campus and Platt Fields Park, and the M14 postcodes reach Withington, Moss Side, Whalley Range, Burnage within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: large Victorian and Edwardian semis subdivided into six- and eight-bed HMOs, plus purpose-built halls. Late-June checkout weeks create the region's sharpest end-of-tenancy peak, with ovens and carpets the usual deposit battlegrounds.
Answers before you book
About 200 road miles and roughly 3.8 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £540 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £645 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Fallowfield or across to Withington.
Link to this answerRoughly 222 miles and 4.3 hours behind the wheel — about £595 with one man and a van, or £710 with two movers. Runs of this length usually go as an overnight two-day schedule with the load kept on the same vehicle. Most Fallowfield properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Fallowfield address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach M14. Roughly 7,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerOne man and a van suits a studio, a single room or a part-load from a ground or first floor. Two movers halve the loading time and are the safer choice for a two-bed and up, an upper floor without a lift, or anything heavy — which is common in this part of Greater Manchester. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Fallowfield or across to Withington.
Link to this answerDriving hours (road miles ÷ 52 mph) plus 1.5 hours of loading and unloading, multiplied by £45/hr for one man and a van or £65/hr for two movers and a van, plus £1.50 for every mile travelled. Nothing else is added unless you ask for packing, storage or a second day. Booked most often on the M14 streets around The Fallowfield Campus.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Manchester City Council controls loading on most M14 streets. We check your street at survey and, where a suspension saves a long carry, we apply for it and show the cost in the quote before you accept it. Crews run from Manchester, so Withington and Moss Side journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerThey are honest estimates from the published rate card using measured road distances. Send an inventory and the access details at both ends and we convert the estimate into a fixed door-to-door price that we hold. Local context matters here: a wealthy victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and hmos from the 1960s, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Link to this answerYes — Withington, Moss Side, Whalley Range, Burnage, Didsbury and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Platt Fields events, Curry Mile at the north end, and one of Europe's densest student populations — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerThe load goes into secure storage in transit on the same vehicle or in a sealed container and is delivered on the date you name. Storage is charged per week, not per day. Platt Fields events, Curry Mile at the north end, and one of Europe's densest student populations — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerMost M14 long distance moves finish inside a working day. Floor level, lift availability and carry distance change that more than the size of the property, which is why we time the job from the survey rather than the bedroom count. Crews run from Manchester, so Withington and Moss Side journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerSemis here usually give you a driveway or a dropped kerb, which keeps the carry short — the time goes into loft contents, garage shelving and the garden kit people forget to mention until the day. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. Local context matters here: a wealthy victorian suburb of merchant villas that turned over to university halls and hmos from the 1960s, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Link to this answerWe hold the load in secure storage in transit and deliver on the date you name, charged per week rather than per day. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Fallowfield or across to Withington.
Link to this answerPianos, safes, American fridges, gym equipment and large glass units all move, but they are quoted at survey because they need extra crew or kit. Paint, fuel, gas bottles and perishables we cannot legally carry — Withington customers usually clear those with the same booking. Crews run from Manchester, so Withington and Moss Side journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Fallowfield
A driver and a Luton or LWB van for part-loads, single items and small flat moves, priced by the hour or as a fixed load.
Van + 1 (hourly) · from £45/hr
A full home removal with a trained crew, proper protection and a completion-day plan that survives a late key release.
2 bed house or flat · from £395
Full or part packing by the crew who will carry it, with every carton labelled by room so unpacking is not a treasure hunt.
Materials only · from £65
An out-of-hours business relocation with crates, IT handling and a floor plan, so staff log in on Monday as though nothing happened.
Studio / small office (up to 10 desks) · from £650
Before you book
The cheapest quote in Fallowfield is usually the one with the least written down. Here is exactly what our price covers and what happens when the day does not go to plan.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover is in place on every Fallowfield long distance move, and claims go to a named account manager here rather than a form.
Call 020 3633 4555 and ask what a long distance move like yours costs priced by miles and hours. If a cheaper option fits better — a smaller van, an hourly booking, a different day — we will say so.
Access, stair turns, parking and carry distance are all priced at survey. If nothing is added to the inventory, the M14 figure you accepted is the figure you pay.
Your load stays sealed and insured overnight for a fixed fee and delivers first thing — we do not unload onto a driveway or re-quote the second day at short-notice rates.
Booked with your long distance move
A move in Manchester is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Fallowfield crews are asked for in the same week — clearing what is not worth transporting, packing, reinstating shelves and fixings, and getting both properties clean — each on its own page with its own pricing.
Keep exploring Fallowfield
Everything below is a real Manchester page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Fallowfield customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the The Fallowfield Campus and Platt Fields Park side of the borough.
Each neighbouring district links straight to this service there, plus the two services most often booked with it.
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