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.
Tameside · SK14 · Tameside Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of SK14, 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, Longdendale to Cambridge is about 155 road miles and 3 hours driving — roughly £435 with one man and a van, or £525 with two movers.

Long distance · Longdendale
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Longdendale
Long distance removals in Longdendale 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.
Stone cottages, Victorian terraces and modern estates on the valley shelves. 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 Longdendale 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 Longdendale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longdendale to LeedsWest Yorkshire | 38 mi | 0.7 hrs | 2.2 hrs | £160 | £200 |
| Longdendale to NottinghamNottinghamshire | 62 mi | 1.2 hrs | 2.7 hrs | £215 | £270 |
| Longdendale to Newcastle upon TyneTyne and Wear | 133 mi | 2.6 hrs | 4.1 hrs | £385 | £470 |
| Longdendale to OxfordOxfordshire | 153 mi | 2.9 hrs | 4.4 hrs | £430 | £520 |
| Longdendale to CambridgeCambridgeshire | 155 mi | 3 hrs | 4.5 hrs | £435 | £525 |
| Longdendale to NorwichNorfolk | 186 mi | 3.6 hrs | 5.1 hrs | £510 | £615 |
| Longdendale to GlasgowScotland | 236 mi | 4.5 hrs | 6 hrs | £625 | £745 |
| Longdendale to ExeterDevon | 250 mi | 4.8 hrs | 6.3 hrs | £660 | £785 |
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 Longdendale 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 Longdendale 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Longdendale or across to Hyde.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Roughly 4,300 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
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. With Longdendale drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Roughly 4,300 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Longdendale or across to Hyde.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Stone cottages, Victorian terraces and modern estates on the valley shelves. That stock, the street it sits on and the Tameside Council rules over it decide how long the day takes — so all three are settled at survey, not on the morning.
With a drive and side access the load runs quickly; the survey concentrates on garages, garden rooms and anything oversized that needs a second pair of hands or a leg-off. Crews run from Tameside, so Hyde and Stalybridge journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Parking is arranged before the date is confirmed: we check the restriction on your street with Tameside Council, book a suspension or a permit bay if the carry would otherwise be long, and tell you at survey what it adds. Roughly 4,300 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
We schedule Longdendale jobs so the loading window sits outside the Tameside rush; end-of-month Fridays are the first dates to go, so book those two to three weeks out where you can. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Longdendale or across to Hyde.
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 SK14 postcode does. Show us all four on the video survey and the figure is fixed. Longdendale Trail cyclists, Mottram church and moorland communities — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
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 Tameside rather than starting from a blank form.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Longdendale so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Tameside Council loading rules on the SK14 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
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. Roughly 4,300 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
£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. Booked most often on the SK14 streets around The Longdendale Trail.
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. Tameside Council loading rules on the SK14 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Tell us the number of rooms, what matters most and how we get in. Access quirks in Longdendale are worth mentioning now: they change the time on site more than the floor area does.
We price your long distance move in writing, usually the same day, with the labour, materials and disposal all itemised so nothing appears later.
Morning or afternoon, weekly, fortnightly or one-off. Recurring visits keep the same slot, so Longdendale clients know exactly when the door will go.
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 Longdendale.
If anything on the a door-to-door UK relocation spec is missed, we come back and put it right at no extra cost — that is the whole guarantee.
Cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance all run from the same Longdendale scheduling desk, so a multi-part job needs one booking.
Everyone we send into a Longdendale property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
Every job in Longdendale is insured to £5m public liability, with goods-in-transit cover on anything we lift, load or take away.
Loading in Tameside
Crews load from The Longdendale Trail and Bottoms Reservoir and the streets around it under Tameside Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach SK14.
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The Longdendale Trail and Bottoms Reservoir anchors the round we run through Longdendale, and every long-distance move in Longdendale on that round starts from the same local checklist. The place looks the way it does for a reason: the reservoir chain of the 1850s supplied Manchester.
Locally, moorland exposure, so we bring the products and dwell times that problem needs. Longdendale Trail cyclists, Mottram church and moorland communities — we plan access and arrival times around all of it. Coverage runs across SK14 and the Tameside streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Longdendale
new-build townhouse, a street off The Longdendale Trail and Bottoms Reservoir
2-person crew, 3 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: moorland exposure, 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.
Long distance moves — Longdendale
first-floor flat, the SK14 side of Longdendale
3-person crew, 4 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: moorland exposure, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Finished inside the quoted window with no extra charge.
Long distance moves — Longdendale
four-bed family home, Longdendale, on our Tameside round
2-person crew, 6 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: moorland exposure, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Signed off same day with photos sent to the customer.
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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 10,400 usual residents across SK14 and the streets bordering Longdendale (ONS Census 2021).
About 4,300 homes reachable by a Longdendale crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Tameside 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 Longdendale — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.42, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Tameside Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts SK14. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
String of Pennine villages — Hollingworth, Mottram and Broadbottom — along the Etherow valley. The reservoir chain of the 1850s supplied Manchester; the villages sit on the old Woodhead turnpike.
Longdendale Trail cyclists, Mottram church and moorland communities. The best-known landmark is The Longdendale Trail and Bottoms Reservoir, and the SK14 postcodes reach Hyde, Stalybridge, Mossley, Dukinfield within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: stone cottages, Victorian terraces and modern estates on the valley shelves. Moorland exposure, peat run-off and heavy rain give stone paving persistent black-green staining.
Answers before you book
About 196 road miles and roughly 3.8 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £535 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £640 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Local context matters here: the reservoir chain of the 1850s supplied manchester; the villages sit on the old woodhead turnpike, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Link to this answerRoughly 223 miles and 4.3 hours behind the wheel — about £600 with one man and a van, or £715 with two movers. Runs of this length usually go as an overnight two-day schedule with the load kept on the same vehicle. With Longdendale drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Tameside Council controls loading on most SK14 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 Tameside, so Hyde and Stalybridge 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Longdendale or across to Hyde.
Link to this answerYes — Hyde, Stalybridge, Mossley, Dukinfield, Woodley and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Longdendale Trail cyclists, Mottram church and moorland communities — 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. Tameside Council loading rules on the SK14 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Longdendale address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach SK14. Roughly 4,300 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 most of the stock around here. Local context matters here: the reservoir chain of the 1850s supplied manchester; the villages sit on the old woodhead turnpike, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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. Roughly 4,300 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerMost SK14 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 Tameside, so Hyde and Stalybridge journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerDetached properties usually park the van on the drive, so labour goes into volume rather than carry distance: outbuildings, garden machinery and large-format furniture set the crew size. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. Longdendale Trail cyclists, Mottram church and moorland communities — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
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. Local context matters here: the reservoir chain of the 1850s supplied manchester; the villages sit on the old woodhead turnpike, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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 — Hyde customers usually clear those with the same booking. With Longdendale drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Longdendale
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
Before you pay a deposit anywhere, check the quote answers these four questions. Ours does, in writing, before your Longdendale date is held.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover is in place on every Longdendale 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 SK14 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 Tameside is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Longdendale 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 Longdendale
Everything below is a real Tameside page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Longdendale customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the The Longdendale Trail and Bottoms Reservoir 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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