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, Shaw and Crompton to Norwich is about 194 road miles and 3.7 hours driving — roughly £525 with one man and a van, or £630 with two movers.

Long distance · Shaw and Crompton
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Shaw and Crompton
A long distance move from Shaw and Crompton is priced on two things only: the hours the crew works and the miles the van covers. We charge £45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van, plus £1.50 per mile travelled — with 1.5 hours of loading and unloading already built into every estimate on this page.
Metrolink-served Pennine township once said to hold more millionaires per head than anywhere in Britain. We check the access at both ends before quoting — the floor, the stairwell, the parking and any Oldham Council loading restriction near Dunwood Park and the surviving Shaw mills — because that is what turns an estimate into a fixed price.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw and Crompton to PrestonLancashire | 35 mi | 0.7 hrs | 2.2 hrs | £155 | £200 |
| Shaw and Crompton to ChesterCheshire | 53 mi | 1 hrs | 2.5 hrs | £195 | £245 |
| Shaw and Crompton to LeicesterLeicestershire | 95 mi | 1.8 hrs | 3.3 hrs | £295 | £360 |
| Shaw and Crompton to OxfordOxfordshire | 164 mi | 3.2 hrs | 4.7 hrs | £460 | £555 |
| Shaw and Crompton to NorwichNorfolk | 194 mi | 3.7 hrs | 5.2 hrs | £525 | £630 |
| Shaw and Crompton to LondonGreater London | 207 mi | 4 hrs | 5.5 hrs | £560 | £670 |
| Shaw and Crompton to BrightonEast Sussex | 260 mi | 5 hrs | 6.5 hrs | £685 | £815 |
| Shaw and Crompton to AberdeenScotland | 308 mi | 5.9 hrs | 7.4 hrs | £795 | £945 |
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 Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton 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. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Roughly 9,100 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Shaw Metrolink commuters, Crompton Moor walkers and market events — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. With Shaw and Crompton drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Gritstone terraces stepping up from the Beal valley, substantial mill-manager villas on Rochdale Road and postwar estates under Crompton Moor. 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.
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. Local context matters here: cotton wealth in the 1920s made shaw famously rich; the mills now house logistics and light industry, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Detached 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. With Shaw and Crompton drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
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. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Shaw and Crompton or across to Royton.
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.
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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Shaw and Crompton or across to Royton.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Shaw and Crompton so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Shaw Metrolink commuters, Crompton Moor walkers and market events — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
£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. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Tell us the number of rooms, what matters most and how we get in. Access quirks in Shaw and Crompton are worth mentioning now: they change the time on site more than the floor area does.
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.
Choose a morning or afternoon window. We plan around Shaw and Crompton traffic and parking so the crew arrives inside it.
You get a finished-work check against the same list you agreed at the start — no vague "all done" message. Anything below standard is re-done at our cost.
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 Shaw and Crompton.
Every job in Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton traffic, permit zones and parking realities, so crews arrive inside the window we promised.
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.
Loading in Oldham
Crews load from Dunwood Park and the surviving Shaw mills 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.
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Our Oldham crews cover Shaw and Crompton weekly, so the long-distance move you book is priced on what Shaw and Crompton homes are really like, not a regional average. The place looks the way it does for a reason: cotton wealth in the 1920s made Shaw famously rich.
High, wet and windy — stone flags and rendered gables green up within a single winter. We budget time for it rather than rushing the finish. We work around shaw Metrolink commuters when we set arrival windows in OL2. Coverage runs across OL2 and the Oldham streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Shaw and Crompton
converted mill apartment, a street off Dunwood Park and the surviving Shaw mills
3-person crew, 7 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: high, 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 — Shaw and Crompton
four-bed family home, the OL2 side of Shaw and Crompton
2-person crew, 6 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: high, 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 — Shaw and Crompton
first-floor flat, Shaw and Crompton, on our Oldham round
3-person crew, 4 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: high, 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.
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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 Shaw and Crompton (ONS Census 2021).
About 8,200 homes reachable by a Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton — 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.
Metrolink-served Pennine township once said to hold more millionaires per head than anywhere in Britain. Cotton wealth in the 1920s made Shaw famously rich; the mills now house logistics and light industry.
Shaw Metrolink commuters, Crompton Moor walkers and market events. The best-known landmark is Dunwood Park and the surviving Shaw mills, and the OL2 postcodes reach Royton, Oldham, Milnrow, Rochdale within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: gritstone terraces stepping up from the Beal valley, substantial mill-manager villas on Rochdale Road and postwar estates under Crompton Moor. High, wet and windy — stone flags and rendered gables green up within a single winter.
Answers before you book
About 207 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. Booked most often on the OL2 streets around Dunwood Park.
Link to this answerRoughly 212 miles and 4.1 hours behind the wheel — about £570 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 Royton and Oldham 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Shaw and Crompton or across to Royton.
Link to this answerYes — Royton, Oldham, Milnrow, Rochdale, Chadderton and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. With Shaw and Crompton drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
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. Crews run from Oldham, so Royton and Oldham journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
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. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL2 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
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. Shaw Metrolink commuters, Crompton Moor walkers and market events — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Shaw and Crompton address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach OL2. Local context matters here: cotton wealth in the 1920s made shaw famously rich; the mills now house logistics and light industry, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Link to this answerWith 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. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. 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. Shaw Metrolink commuters, Crompton Moor walkers and market events — 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. With Shaw and Crompton drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
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 — Royton customers usually clear those with the same booking. With Shaw and Crompton drives and side access the van gets close, so volume rather than carry sets the day.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Shaw and Crompton
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 Shaw and Crompton date is held.
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.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover is in place on every Shaw and Crompton long distance move, and claims go to a named account manager here rather than a form.
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.
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.
Booked with your long distance move
A move in Oldham is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Shaw and Crompton 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 Shaw and Crompton
Everything below is a real Oldham page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Shaw and Crompton customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the Dunwood Park and the surviving Shaw mills 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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