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.
Salford · M28 · Salford City Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of M28, 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, Walkden to Cardiff is about 181 road miles and 3.5 hours driving — roughly £500 with one man and a van, or £600 with two movers.

Long distance · Walkden
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Walkden
A long distance move from Walkden 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.
Busy Salford town with the Ellesmere Shopping Centre and a well-used rail link to Manchester. We check the access at both ends before quoting — the floor, the stairwell, the parking and any Salford City Council loading restriction near Ellesmere Shopping Centre and Parr Fold Park — because that is what turns an estimate into a fixed price.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Walkden 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 Walkden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walkden to SheffieldSouth Yorkshire | 49 mi | 0.9 hrs | 2.4 hrs | £185 | £230 |
| Walkden to LeedsWest Yorkshire | 50 mi | 1 hrs | 2.5 hrs | £190 | £240 |
| Walkden to NottinghamNottinghamshire | 81 mi | 1.6 hrs | 3.1 hrs | £265 | £325 |
| Walkden to Newcastle upon TyneTyne and Wear | 132 mi | 2.5 hrs | 4 hrs | £380 | £460 |
| Walkden to CardiffSouth Wales | 181 mi | 3.5 hrs | 5 hrs | £500 | £600 |
| Walkden to LondonGreater London | 211 mi | 4.1 hrs | 5.6 hrs | £570 | £685 |
| Walkden to SouthamptonHampshire | 232 mi | 4.5 hrs | 6 hrs | £620 | £740 |
| Walkden to BrightonEast Sussex | 262 mi | 5 hrs | 6.5 hrs | £690 | £820 |
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 Walkden 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 Walkden 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. Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Salford City Council loading rules on the M28 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Walkden or across to Little Hulton.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Crews run from Salford, so Little Hulton and Worsley journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Interwar semis, ex-colliery terraces and large modern estates. That stock, the street it sits on and the Salford City Council rules over it decide how long the day takes — so all three are settled at survey, not on the morning.
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 M28 postcode does. Show us all four on the video survey and the figure is fixed. Most Walkden properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
We schedule Walkden jobs so the loading window sits outside the Salford rush; end-of-month Fridays are the first dates to go, so book those two to three weeks out where you can. Salford City Council loading rules on the M28 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Parking is arranged before the date is confirmed: we check the restriction on your street with Salford City Council, book a suspension or a permit bay if the carry would otherwise be long, and tell you at survey what it adds. Local context matters here: a coal-mining town on the bridgewater estate; the last pits closed in the 1960s and retail replaced them, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
Semis 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. Booked most often on the M28 streets around Ellesmere Shopping Centre.
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 Salford rather than starting from a blank form.
£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 M28 streets around Ellesmere Shopping Centre.
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. Salford City Council loading rules on the M28 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Walkden so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Walkden or across to Little Hulton.
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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Walkden or across to Little Hulton.
Tell us the number of rooms, what matters most and how we get in. Access quirks in Walkden are worth mentioning now: they change the time on site more than the floor area does.
You get a written figure for your long distance move, itemised, normally within a few hours. No survey fee, and no surcharge for travelling to Walkden.
Morning or afternoon, weekly, fortnightly or one-off. Recurring visits keep the same slot, so Walkden clients know exactly when the door will go.
Work runs to the written spec, and the job isn't closed until it has been checked against it. If something on the list was missed, we return and put it right free.
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 Walkden.
Every job in Walkden 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 Walkden 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 Salford
Crews load from Ellesmere Shopping Centre and Parr Fold Park and the streets around it under Salford City Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach M28.
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Walkden is not a generic Salford postcode to us: busy Salford town with the Ellesmere Shopping Centre and a well-used rail link to Manchester, and that shapes how a long-distance move in Walkden actually runs here. A coal-mining town on the Bridgewater estate; the last pits closed in the 1960s and retail replaced them. That history is why the interiors here need the attention they do.
Former colliery ground and clay soil give heavy mud splash on drives through winter. We budget time for it rather than rushing the finish. Scheduling fits around walkden High, and parking is agreed before the van sets off. Coverage runs across M28 and the Salford streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Walkden
first-floor flat, a street off Ellesmere Shopping Centre and Parr Fold Park
3-person crew, 5 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: former colliery ground and clay soil give heavy mud splash on drives through winter, 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 — Walkden
new-build townhouse, the M28 side of Walkden
2-person crew, 4 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: former colliery ground and clay soil give heavy mud splash on drives through winter, 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 — Walkden
converted mill apartment, Walkden, on our Salford round
3-person crew, 3 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: former colliery ground and clay soil give heavy mud splash on drives through winter, 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 27,400 usual residents across M28 and the streets bordering Walkden (ONS Census 2021).
About 12,000 homes reachable by a Walkden crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Salford 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 Walkden — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.28, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Salford City Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts M28. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
Busy Salford town with the Ellesmere Shopping Centre and a well-used rail link to Manchester. A coal-mining town on the Bridgewater estate; the last pits closed in the 1960s and retail replaced them.
Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population. The best-known landmark is Ellesmere Shopping Centre and Parr Fold Park, and the M28 postcodes reach Little Hulton, Worsley, Boothstown, Swinton within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: interwar semis, ex-colliery terraces and large modern estates. Former colliery ground and clay soil give heavy mud splash on drives through winter.
Answers before you book
About 211 road miles and roughly 4.1 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £570 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £685 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Roughly 11,400 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 Salford, so Little Hulton and Worsley journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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 — Little Hulton customers usually clear those with the same booking. Crews run from Salford, so Little Hulton and Worsley journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Walkden address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach M28. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Walkden or across to Little Hulton.
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. Crews run from Salford, so Little Hulton and Worsley journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
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. Crews run from Salford, so Little Hulton and Worsley 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. Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Salford City Council controls loading on most M28 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. Walkden High, Parr Fold events and a large commuter population — 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. Booked most often on the M28 streets around Ellesmere Shopping Centre.
Link to this answerYes — Little Hulton, Worsley, Boothstown, Swinton, Tyldesley and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Most Walkden properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Link to this answerDriveway loading makes these moves efficient. What moves the price is the loft, the garage and the shed, so the survey deliberately opens all three. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. Most Walkden properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Link to this answerMost M28 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. Salford City Council loading rules on the M28 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Walkden
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
Most complaints about removals in Salford come down to three things: the price changed, the crew was short, or nobody answered the phone. These are our commitments on all three.
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 M28 figure you accepted is the figure you pay.
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 Walkden long distance move, and claims go to a named account manager here rather than a form.
Booked with your long distance move
A move in Salford is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Walkden 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 Walkden
Everything below is a real Salford page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Walkden customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the Ellesmere Shopping Centre and Parr Fold 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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