# Marley Moves: full corpus

> Family-run removals company based in Shaftesbury, SP7, with a Henstridge yard in Somerset (BA8). Owner-operator (Connor) plus a small in-house crew. We never subcontract. Coverage: Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, Avon, Hampshire and Berkshire, plus UK-wide long distance. Companies House #15914266. Public Liability up to £2.5 million. Goods in Transit up to £50,000 per load.

## What we do

We move people from studios and 1-bed flats up to 5-bed family homes across Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, Avon, Hampshire and Berkshire. We also run UK-wide long-distance removals from our Dorset and Somerset yards to anywhere from London to the Lake District. Every move is run end-to-end by the same in-house Marley crew that quoted it, with no depot handovers, no subcontracting and no franchise model. Every quote is fixed in writing within the hour of enquiry.

## Services

### House Clearances across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/house-clearances/
Tagline: Sensitive, licensed, properly insured

Marley Moves runs sensitive house clearances across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, probate, downsizing, end-of-tenancy, post-bereavement, hoarder-property situations. We hold an Upper Tier Waste Carriers Licence with the Environment Agency (so we can legally remove and tip waste, many cheaper outfits can't), and we route donatable items to our regular charity partners (Sue Ryder, Salvation Army, Air Ambulance) rather than straight to landfill. Probate clearances are a substantial part of what we do, we work to the executor's or solicitor's timeline, photograph rooms before starting, identify items the family wants kept or rehomed, and only landfill what genuinely can't be saved. Free pre-clearance visit before any quote, so the price reflects what you actually want cleared rather than a worst-case estimate from photographs. Most jobs run a single day; bigger probate properties (4-5 bed, decades of accumulation) split across two.

### House Removals across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/house-removals/
Tagline: Fixed-price written quotes within the hour

Marley Moves is a Dorset house removals company, family-run from our yard in Shaftesbury, SP7, with a Henstridge yard in Somerset, BA8. We move studios to 5-bed family homes across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, plus UK-wide long-distance removals from Dorset to anywhere from London to the Lake District. You speak to Connor directly from the first call to the keys-in-hand at the new place. Most of our work clusters in a triangle between Shaftesbury, Sherborne and Warminster, with regular runs out to Salisbury, Bath, Bournemouth and Poole. We're not the cheapest Dorset removal company, though we're typically 10–25% under the national-chain quote, and we're not BAR registered. What we are: properly insured, properly equipped, on time. That consistency is what every five-star Google review on this site is built on.

### Long-Distance UK Removals from Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/long-distance/
Tagline: Same crew, end-to-end, fixed price per route

Marley Moves runs long-distance UK removals from Dorset to anywhere in the country. London, Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cornwall, the Lake District, Wales, all routes we drive several times a year. One truck, one route, one crew that sleeps overnight if the destination is too far for a single working day. Most single-day routes (Dorset to London / Bristol / the South West) complete in a long working day. Further destinations (Manchester, Edinburgh, Cornwall extremes) become 2-day moves with the crew overnighting at the destination so the same hands unload the next morning. Free pre-move survey for any 3-bed-plus home, video or in-person depending on access at the loading end. We also do the reverse, collecting from London / the Midlands / the North and delivering to Dorset, Somerset or Wiltshire, and combine outbound + inbound jobs where possible to keep the pricing competitive against the national chains.

### Man and Van Near Me, Small Moves and Single-Item Pickups
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/man-and-van/
Tagline: Fixed-price small moves, in writing, within the hour

Marley Moves runs a real man and van service across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire from our Shaftesbury yard, with the same in-house crew that handles our full house removals. We're not a one-man-one-van outfit: every Marley man-and-van booking comes with proper insurance (£2.5m public liability, £50k goods in transit per load), proper kit (blankets, straps, dollies, door protectors), and a real company behind it if anything goes sideways. Single rooms, studios, IKEA hauls, single-item collections, small office moves, between-flat shifts, anything that doesn't need the multi-van treatment of a full house removal. Single-item runs from £55 fixed, studio and single-room moves from £180 fixed, every quote written before move day. The number we send you is the number you pay.

### Professional Packing Services across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/packing/
Tagline: Full or part, proper materials, careful crew

Marley Moves runs full and part packing services across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, with proper materials and a methodical room-by-room approach. We use proper materials throughout: acid-free tissue for crockery and ornaments, double-walled boxes labelled by room, bubble wrap and foam for art and electronics, double-walled crates for the most fragile pieces, blanket-wrap on every item of furniture. Most customers add part packing for the kitchen and breakables (the bits where things go wrong if you do it yourself in the last 48 hours) and self-pack the books, clothes and bedding. Full packing, entire house, is offered for time-pressed moves, families who simply don't have the bandwidth, and properties with serious antique or art content. Pricing depends on volume: typically £100 – £700 added to a standard removal. Quoted in writing within the hour.

### Specialist Removals across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/specialist-removals/
Tagline: Pianos, antiques, art, gallery installs

Marley Moves runs specialist removals across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, pianos, antique furniture, fine art, sculpture, gallery installations, exhibition logistics. The cases where standard removal kit and standard handling aren't quite enough. We've moved baby grands off Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, antique inlaid sideboards out of Bath crescents, framed art collections across Bruton properties, gallery installs in the Hauser & Wirth orbit, and listed-building piano relocations from period homes in Sherborne and Salisbury. Same in-house Marley crew as our standard removals, just with the specialist kit (slings, piano dollies, climate-aware loading, custom crating). Same insurance cover as our standard removals, with extended cover available at quote time for higher-value items where it matters. Free pre-move survey on anything significant so the quote reflects the care needed.

### Storage near you across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/services/storage/
Tagline: From £30/week, combined with your removal

Marley Moves runs containerised storage at our Shaftesbury yard for customers across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. From £30 per week per container, secure, alarmed, monitored, and quoted alongside your removal so you only deal with one company and one number. Most of our storage work falls into one of two patterns: short-term between-completion-date storage (a couple of weeks while contracts line up), or longer-term storage for downsizing, international moves, or trial-period relocations. Each timber container holds roughly a 2-3 bed home; we offer half-container space too for 1-bed and studio loads. Insured, sealed, accessible by appointment, with the in-and-out logistics handled by the same office Connor uses for the removal itself.

## Towns we cover (16 core, plus UK-wide long-distance)

### Removals Shaftesbury, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/shaftesbury/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 0 miles
Postcode outcodes: SP7

Removals in Shaftesbury are one of our core runs. Our crews work in and around Shaftesbury (Dorset) every week: local moves within the town, moves across to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire neighbours, and long-distance moves anywhere in the UK. We know the streets, the parking, the access issues, and the quirks of the older properties around here. If you're moving to, from, or within Shaftesbury, we can quote the job properly and send the right size crew. Fixed written quote within the hour, fully insured, no subcontracting. Call us, WhatsApp, or fill in the quote form, whichever is easiest.

### Removals Gillingham, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/gillingham/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 3 miles
Postcode outcodes: SP8

Marley Moves is based in Shaftesbury, SP7 itself, with the yard on the western edge of town. Most local Gillingham moves complete in a single working day, with same-day site visits realistic for any SP8 enquiry. Connor and the small in-house crew live across Gillingham, Shaftesbury and the surrounding villages, so you're getting people who already know your roads, your council and your school catchments rather than subcontractors driving in cold. Family-run, fully insured (£2.5m public liability and £50,000 goods-in-transit cover per load), with fixed written quotes back within the hour and a 5.0-star Google rating across every town we cover.

### Removals Mere, Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/mere/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 7 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA12

Mere is 8 minutes up the A303 from our yard, close enough that we usually quote on a same-day site visit. BA12 is one of our most-driven local routes; Castle Street, the Square, the lanes out towards Stourhead and Penselwood are routine territory for us. Most BA12 quotes go out within the hour of enquiry, often after a free in-person look at the property the same day. We're full-rate local for Mere (no out-of-area surcharge despite the Wiltshire border) and the crew that surveys is the crew that turns up. Fixed written quote, £2.5m public liability, in-house Marley team only.

### Removals Sherborne, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/sherborne/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 9 miles
Postcode outcodes: DT9

Marley Moves runs Sherborne removals from our Henstridge, BA8 yard 8 miles east and our main Shaftesbury, SP7 yard 11 miles north-east, whichever crew is closer to the next available slot dispatches the survey. DT9 is one of our most-driven Dorset routes, with regular work across the abbey-town historic centre, the modern Lenthay and Woodbury estates, and the surrounding villages we cover (Trent, Yetminster, Chetnole, Bradford Abbas). Boarding-school term boundaries at Sherborne School, Sherborne Girls and Foster's drive a real seasonal rhythm we plan around. Family-run, fully insured (£2.5m public liability and £50,000 goods-in-transit cover per load), with fixed written quotes back within the hour.

### Removals Wincanton, Somerset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/wincanton/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 9 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA9

Wincanton sits at the A303 junction, 9 miles from our Shaftesbury yard, an easy run for our crews multiple times a week. BA9 is bread-and-butter territory: Verrington Lane, the Tythings estate, Bayford Hill, plus the rural villages out at Charlton Musgrove, Bratton Seymour and Holton. We're inside 10 minutes of the BA9 town centre, so same-week scheduling is the norm and written quotes within the hour are standard. Probate clearance work for the local solicitors is a steady part of what we do in Wincanton: registered Upper Tier waste carrier, sensitive handling. Written quote within the hour, fully insured, never subcontracted.

### Removals Bruton, Somerset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/bruton/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 12 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA10

Bruton's narrow Tudor lanes and listed cottages are the reason we send the 3.5-tonne van here, never the 7.5. BA10 is one of the more changing towns we cover: Hauser & Wirth's Durslade Farm gallery, At The Chapel, the wave of upscale-rural restorations along Patwell Street and the High Street. We blanket-wrap antique furniture as standard, run runner mats over original timber floors, and shuttle from Frome Road or the station car park for centre loads where larger trucks can't reach. Sexey's term-time scheduling matters; we plan around the school-run window. Fixed price, fully insured, written quotes within the hour for BA10.

### Removals Blandford Forum, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/blandford-forum/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 13 miles
Postcode outcodes: DT11

Blandford's Georgian terraces and tight one-way system are a familiar challenge for our Dorset crews. DT11 covers the Georgian centre: Market Place, East Street, West Street and Salisbury Street, all matching post-1731-fire rebuilds and often Grade II listed, plus the modern estates at Bryanston Park and Damory Court Street, plus a wide rural catchment of villages we reach inside the same local-rate band (Pimperne, Spetisbury, Charlton Marshall, Tarrant Keyneston). We default to a Luton inside the historic core and keep larger trucks parked at Park View for shuttle loading. Blandford Camp postings drive a similar pattern to Warminster's. Properly insured, never subcontracted.

### Removals Salisbury, Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/salisbury/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 17 miles
Postcode outcodes: SP1, SP2

Salisbury is the eastern edge of our weekly run, 22 miles from Shaftesbury on the A30. SP1 and SP2 give us regular access to one of the larger urban centres in our coverage zone: the cathedral close (St Ann's Gate access, height-restricted archways, Grade I listed throughout), the medieval core (Fish Row, Butcher Row, the Market Square one-way system), the Victorian terraces around Castle Road and Bishopdown, and the modern estates at Bishopdown Farm, Old Sarum, Laverstock and Harnham. Bulford, Tidworth and Larkhill garrison-area relocations are a regular part of our Salisbury Plain work, with MOD-style itemised inventory available. £2.5m public liability, £50k goods in transit per load.

### Removals Warminster, Wiltshire
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/warminster/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 17 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA12

Warminster is the northern edge of our regular patch, a 30-minute run up the A350 from Gillingham. BA12 here is a different story to Mere's BA12: a much larger market town, plus Battlesbury Barracks generating a steady rhythm of military removals on top of the civilian house-move trade. We know the August/September posting cycle, the Warminster School term boundaries, and the Friday market access constraints on the High Street. MOD-style itemised inventory is available for Battlesbury jobs, with longer-distance legs to other UK bases handled in-house. Free written quote within the hour, £2.5m public liability, in-house crews end-to-end.

### Removals Yeovil, Somerset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/yeovil/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 17 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA20, BA21, BA22

Marley Moves runs Yeovil removals from our Henstridge yard, just over the Somerset border in BA8, six miles east of Yeovil town centre. Close enough to put the entire BA20, BA21 and BA22 catchment inside same-day reach, without the depot-based pricing of the bigger Yeovil chains. We do steady volume across the residential cluster (Pen Mill, Houndstone, Brimsmore, the Western Bypass new builds), the town-centre Quedam-area flats, the Westland and RNAS Yeovilton service-family relocations, and the surrounding South Somerset villages (Mudford, West Coker, East Coker, Hardington Mandeville). Family-run, fully insured (£2.5m public liability and £50,000 goods-in-transit cover per load), with fixed written quotes back within the hour. Phone the Yeovil-area line on 01935 345050 for a same-day site visit.

### Removals Frome, Somerset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/frome/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 21 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA11

Frome sits 18 miles from our yard, at the Somerset edge of our patch, a town we move into and out of constantly. BA11 is unusually creative-class as Somerset towns go: Catherine Hill, Stony Street, the Trinity art quarter, plus the Saxonvale redevelopment and the wider Mendip Council village outliers (Mells, Nunney, Berkley, Witham Friary). The historic centre's pedestrian and near-pedestrian cobbled lanes mean we shuttle from Cattle Market Road or the Westway car park for most central jobs. Restoration-aware handling on period properties is standard. Independent Sunday market closes Catherine Hill on the third Sunday of each month; we plan around it. Free written quote within the hour.

### Removals Dorchester, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/dorchester/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 22 miles
Postcode outcodes: DT1

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset and one of our busier south-county runs, 22 miles from our yard via the A352 through Cerne Abbas. DT1 layers Roman remains (Maumbury Rings, the town walls), Victorian centre (High West Street, South Street, the Hardy connection), and the Poundbury new-urbanist development with its specific design and material rules. We do work across all of it: period centre moves, modern estates at Charminster and Fordington, Poundbury blocks with their listed-style neo-Georgian fittings, plus rural farmhouse work in the surrounding villages (Cerne Abbas, Piddletrenthide, Owermoigne). Wednesday and Saturday town-centre markets narrow access; we plan around them. Fixed written quote, in-house crews.

### Removals Bournemouth, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/bournemouth/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 32 miles
Postcode outcodes: BH1, BH2, BH8

Looking at removal companies in Bournemouth? Marley Moves is a Dorset-based moving company running weekly Bournemouth routes from our Shaftesbury yard, covering the full BH1 through BH9 spread plus BH10 and BH11 by arrangement. Family-run, in-house crew, fixed written quotes within the hour. £2.5m public liability and £50k goods in transit per load. We're not a Bournemouth-resident remover, but we're not pretending to be. We're a Dorset removal company that happens to do Bournemouth properly because we run it weekly.

### Removals Weymouth, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/weymouth/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 32 miles
Postcode outcodes: DT3, DT4

Weymouth's seafront properties and harbourside flats need careful access planning, something our crews handle every week. DT3 and DT4 cover a wide catchment: the listed Georgian Esplanade terraces (Royal Crescent, Brunswick Terrace, Gloucester Row), the harbour-side town houses around Custom House Quay and Trinity Road, the Victorian and Edwardian terraces inland in Westham and Rodwell (Buxton Road, Abbotsbury Road, Rodwell Avenue, Spa Road), the post-war estates at Wyke Regis along Lanehouse Rocks Road, and the modern developments at Littlemoor and Chickerell. We time bigger seafront moves for early-morning loading May–September to clear before the visitor season congestion. Portland causeway weather is the wildcard.

### Removals Poole, Dorset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/poole/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 34 miles
Postcode outcodes: BH15

Poole's quayside developments, narrow Old Town lanes, and Sandbanks gated estates each need a different access plan. BH15 through BH17 covers Old Town's Georgian and Victorian harbour-side terraces (West Quay, Thames Street, Salisbury Street), the urban density of Hamworthy and lower Parkstone, the Victorian and Edwardian villas of Parkstone, Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs, and at the most extreme end the Sandbanks high-end peninsula housing where individual properties run into the £10m+ bracket. Our regular Bournemouth weekly routes mean Poole sits on the same itinerary, so return-load efficiency keeps the pricing honest against local Poole removers. Old Town cobbles and Sandbanks gated-estate access pre-arranged.

### Removals Bath, Somerset
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/removals/bath/
Distance from Shaftesbury yard: 38 miles
Postcode outcodes: BA1, BA2

Bath's Georgian terraces and listed townhouses demand the most careful crew on our roster, every move planned street by street. BA1 and BA2 contain one of the largest concentrations of listed Georgian housing stock in the UK: Royal Crescent, the Circus, Lansdown Crescent, Camden Crescent, Pulteney Street and Great Pulteney Street, plus literally thousands of smaller Grade II terraces in Walcot, Kingsmead, Bathwick, Widcombe and Larkhall. World Heritage Site rules and Bath & North East Somerset Council's conservation regime mean every move into or out of a listed property needs parking suspensions booked two weeks ahead, runner mats over original floors, and a smaller vehicle for the cobbled and sett-stone surfaces. Fully insured throughout.

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What actually matters when you're picking a removals firm, and the questions most people don't think to ask.

### Combining removals and storage: when one booking is better than two
URL: https://marleymoves.co.uk/insights/the-benefits-of-removals-and-storage-in-gillingham-during-a-move/
Last updated: 2026-06-22

Staggered moves, house sales that slip, renovations between homes. How storage + removals as one booking saves money.

## Contact

- Phone: 01747 637070
- WhatsApp: +44 7495 835006
- Email: hello@marleymoves.co.uk
- Registered address: MarleyMoves Ltd, Ash Cottage, Sherborne Causeway, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9PX
- Service area: Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, Avon, Hampshire and Berkshire, plus UK-wide for long-distance moves
- Insurance: Public Liability up to £2.5 million; Goods in Transit up to £50,000 per load
- Company number: 15914266 (MarleyMoves Ltd, registered at Companies House, England & Wales)
- Owner: Connor (small in-house crew; never subcontracted)
- Hours: 9am – 5pm, every day