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.
Oldham · OL2 · Oldham Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of OL2, 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, Royton to Bristol is about 184 road miles and 3.5 hours driving — roughly £505 with one man and a van, or £605 with two movers.

Long distance · Royton
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Royton
Relocating out of Royton to another part of the UK? You get one dedicated van and the same crew at both ends, priced from a rate card you can check yourself: £45/hr for a man and van, £65/hr for two movers, £1.50 a mile, and 1.5 hours of handling time included.
Access sets the hours. Tell us the floor, the lift, the stair turns and the parking at both the Royton end and the destination, and the estimate below becomes a fixed door-to-door price with fuel, tolls and driver hours inside it.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Royton 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 Royton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royton to PrestonLancashire | 34 mi | 0.7 hrs | 2.2 hrs | £150 | £195 |
| Royton to SheffieldSouth Yorkshire | 37 mi | 0.7 hrs | 2.2 hrs | £155 | £200 |
| Royton to NottinghamNottinghamshire | 73 mi | 1.4 hrs | 2.9 hrs | £240 | £300 |
| Royton to HullEast Yorkshire | 94 mi | 1.8 hrs | 3.3 hrs | £290 | £360 |
| Royton to BristolSomerset | 184 mi | 3.5 hrs | 5 hrs | £505 | £605 |
| Royton to NorwichNorfolk | 195 mi | 3.8 hrs | 5.3 hrs | £535 | £640 |
| Royton to EdinburghScotland | 213 mi | 4.1 hrs | 5.6 hrs | £575 | £685 |
| Royton to ExeterDevon | 257 mi | 4.9 hrs | 6.4 hrs | £675 | £805 |
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 Royton 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 Royton 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 Royton or across to Shaw and Crompton.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Roughly 9,100 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. Most Royton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
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 9,100 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 Royton or across to Shaw and Crompton.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Stone terraces, interwar semis and postwar estates on the slopes. That stock, the street it sits on and the Oldham 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Royton or across to Shaw and Crompton.
The crew should be carrying, not circling. We confirm the restriction type on the OL2 end, arrange a suspension through Oldham Council where it is worth it, and plan the closest legal standing point to the door. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Start times here are set by the access, not the diary: where a lift, a bay or a school-run street is involved the crew starts early and finishes inside the day rather than paying for a second visit. Roughly 9,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Tell us about the loft, the garage, the shed and anything that will not come apart. It is the unlisted items, not the address, that turn a comfortable day into an overtime one. Royton Assembly Hall, Tandle Hill walkers and community sports — 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 Oldham rather than starting from a blank form.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Royton so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 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 9,100 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. Local context matters here: a spinning town of the 1800s; tandle hill was given to the people as a war memorial park in 1919, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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. Most Royton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Tell us the number of rooms, what matters most and how we get in. Access quirks in Royton 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 Royton 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 Royton.
Everyone we send into a Royton property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
Every job in Royton 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 Royton traffic, permit zones and parking realities, so crews arrive inside the window we promised.
Loading in Oldham
Crews load from Royton Town Hall and Tandle Hill Country Park and the streets around it under Oldham Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach OL2.
Not listed? See every Greater Manchester area we relocate from.
Royton Town Hall and Tandle Hill Country Park anchors the round we run through Royton, and every long-distance move in Royton on that round starts from the same local checklist. The place looks the way it does for a reason: a spinning town of the 1800s.
Our teams plan for one recurring Royton issue: tandle Hill exposure and Pennine rain mean fast moss return on paving and gable ends. Royton Assembly Hall, Tandle Hill walkers and community sports — we plan access and arrival times around all of it. Coverage runs across OL2 and the Oldham streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Royton
new-build townhouse, a street off Royton Town Hall and Tandle Hill Country Park
2-person crew, 6 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: tandle Hill exposure and Pennine rain mean fast moss return on paving and gable ends, 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.
Long distance moves — Royton
first-floor flat, the OL2 side of Royton
3-person crew, 7 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: tandle Hill exposure and Pennine rain mean fast moss return on paving and gable ends, 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 — Royton
four-bed family home, Royton, on our Oldham round
2-person crew, 4 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: tandle Hill exposure and Pennine rain mean fast moss return on paving and gable ends, 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.
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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 21,900 usual residents across OL2 and the streets bordering Royton (ONS Census 2021).
About 8,200 homes reachable by a Royton crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Oldham 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 Royton — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.66, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Oldham Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts OL2. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
Oldham township on the northern hills with a compact centre and moorland edge. A spinning town of the 1800s; Tandle Hill was given to the people as a war memorial park in 1919.
Royton Assembly Hall, Tandle Hill walkers and community sports. The best-known landmark is Royton Town Hall and Tandle Hill Country Park, and the OL2 postcodes reach Shaw and Crompton, Chadderton, Oldham, Middleton within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: stone terraces, interwar semis and postwar estates on the slopes. Tandle Hill exposure and Pennine rain mean fast moss return on paving and gable ends.
Answers before you book
About 206 road miles and roughly 4 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £560 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £670 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Roughly 9,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerRoughly 213 miles and 4.1 hours behind the wheel — about £575 with one man and a van, or £685 with two movers. Runs of this length usually go as an overnight two-day schedule with the load kept on the same vehicle. Crews run from Oldham, so Shaw and Crompton and Chadderton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Royton address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach OL2. Booked most often on the OL2 streets around Royton Town Hall.
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: a spinning town of the 1800s; tandle hill was given to the people as a war memorial park in 1919, 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 9,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
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: a spinning town of the 1800s; tandle hill was given to the people as a war memorial park in 1919, 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 — Shaw and Crompton customers usually clear those with the same booking. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerMost OL2 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. Most Royton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Royton or across to Shaw and Crompton.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Oldham Council controls loading on most OL2 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 Oldham, so Shaw and Crompton and Chadderton 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 Royton or across to Shaw and Crompton.
Link to this answerYes — Shaw and Crompton, Chadderton, Oldham, Middleton, Heywood and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Royton Assembly Hall, Tandle Hill walkers and community sports — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Royton
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 Royton 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 Royton 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 OL2 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 Oldham is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Royton 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 Royton
Everything below is a real Oldham page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Royton customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the Royton Town Hall and Tandle Hill Country 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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