Local removal company · Gillingham, Dorset · SP8
Removals in Gillingham, Dorset
Three miles of the B3081 sit between our yard and Gillingham, and that distance changes how the work gets planned, not just how far the van drives. An SP8 survey is a short run out rather than half a day, so we can usually look at a house within a day or two of the enquiry, and a completion date that jumps forward at short notice is one we can often still cover. Gillingham, Dorset is the closest town to us of anywhere we work, which is why Gillingham removals fill a good part of most weeks: house moves across the town, packing, storage, man and van work, pianos and long distance. We are a family run removal company, and the written quote comes back within the hour.
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5.0 ★★★★★ Google rating · Family-run · Insured £2.5m · Or call 01747 637070
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5.0 ★★★★★ Google rating · Family-run · Insured £2.5m · Or call 01747 637070
Why us, here
What being three miles away changes about a Gillingham move
Gillingham is the closest town to our yard, and that shows up in three practical places. Surveys: an SP8 address is a short run out, so we can usually look at a house within a day or two rather than booking you into the following week, which matters when a completion date arrives late. Short notice: a date that moves forward, or a chain that collapses and reforms, is easier to absorb when the crew starts three miles away. And the small jobs stay worth doing, because there is no hour of empty running at each end, so a single room or a man and van job in Gillingham gets quoted on what it is rather than padded to make the trip worthwhile. The patch runs from the historic centre and the High Street and Newbury streets out through Wyke, Peacemarsh, Ham, Bay, Colesbrook and Milton on Stour, then into the Stour villages: East Stour, West Stour, Stour Provost, Buckhorn Weston, Kington Magna, Silton, Bourton and Fifehead Magdalen. Worth knowing that Motcombe next door is SP7 and Shaftesbury post town, and Marnhull is DT10, so around here the postcode does not always follow the road.
In Gillingham we cover house removals, packing and storage, and also serve nearby Shaftesbury, Mere and Wincanton.
Compared
Comparing removal companies in Gillingham
Quotes from removal companies in Gillingham tend to land within a similar range of each other. What separates them is whether anyone has looked at your address rather than your postcode. Four things worth asking any removals company in Gillingham before you book.
Ask where the yard actually is. Travel time at both ends of the day gets paid for by somebody, and it also decides how quickly anyone can come and look at the house. A moving company in Gillingham working the town from another county has to weigh a survey against half a day of driving. Ours is three miles down the B3081, so we survey first and price afterwards.
Ask who is actually going to be on the job. Some quotes are priced by one firm and worked by another. Ours are not. The crew is employed by us, a Gillingham move is never subcontracted out, and the people who looked at your staircase are the people who carry the wardrobe down it.
Ask whether the number is fixed. A written fixed price should still be the price when the last box comes off the van. An hourly rate does not tell you what a Gillingham house move costs until it is already over, and it puts the risk of a slow day on you instead of on the firm that planned the day.
Ask which side of the railway they think you are on. That sounds like an odd question until you know the town has one road crossing of the line. A quote that has not worked out where the vehicle stands, how far the carry runs, and whether the load has to cross that bridge in the middle of the school run, is an estimate rather than a plan.
Being straight about the fit: our address is Shaftesbury, not Gillingham, so if you want one of the moving companies in Gillingham with an SP8 address of its own, we are not it. What we are is the yard three miles up the road. Call 01747 637070 or send both addresses through the quote form.
Routes, access & parking
The one bridge over the railway, and the junctions either side
Gillingham has exactly one road crossing of its railway line, and the adopted local plan says so directly: the junctions in the Shaftesbury Road and Le Neubourg Way corridor lie very close to the bridge that provides the only vehicular crossing point over the railway. The same document names the New Road (B3092) junction with Shaftesbury Road (B3081), and the Le Neubourg Way and Newbury mini roundabout, as the town's capacity problem. On a removal that means Gillingham behaves like two towns joined at a single point. Where the house is one side of the line and the load is going to the other, we run that leg outside the school and commuter peaks instead of holding a loaded lorry in a queue. The Station Road and Brickfields part of town is the straightforward end of it, laid out with wide roads, footways on both sides and turning space intended for HGVs. The historic centre around The Square is the opposite. And the road south to us, the B3081, climbs a steep hill and takes tight bends through a residential part of Shaftesbury before it reaches the A30, which is why anything long distance leaves Gillingham early.
Property types
House removals in Gillingham: a listed core and 1,800 new homes
The housing split here is unusually sharp. The town centre conservation area around The Square and St Mary's church was designated in 1985 and holds more than sixty listed buildings, and those are the house removals in Gillingham where floor protection, door widths and the standing position all get settled before a price goes out. Against that, the town is carrying the largest housing allocation in the area, about 1,800 homes in the southern extension alone, with estates still going up around Kiln Way, off Addison Close, on Common Mead Lane and along Shaftesbury Road. New builds bring their own problems rather than none: unmade verges, shared drives, kerbs not yet dropped, and half the street completing on the same Friday. Between the two sit the older terraces on High Street and Newbury, the post-war streets through Peacemarsh and Wyke, and the farmhouses out at Milton on Stour, Silton and Buckhorn Weston, where the last two hundred yards of lane is the entire job.
Practical tips
Timing a Gillingham move around schools, car parks and the Stour
Three things worth knowing before you fix a date. Hardings Lane carries both Gillingham School, which has roughly 1,700 pupils, and the RiversMeet leisure centre, so anything loading near there is better started before the school run or well after it. Parking: the town car parks are run by Dorset Council, High Street with about seventy spaces, Chantry Fields with about seventy eight and Gas Lane with twenty five, all free between 6pm and 8am. Chantry Fields is the only one that takes anything motorhome sized, under six metres and not overnight, which is occasionally the answer to where a second vehicle waits. And water: Gillingham sits where the Stour, the Lodden and the Shreen meet, on clay that sheds rain fast, with major floods recorded in 1979, 1982, 2000, 2012 and 2014. The Environment Agency names The Square, High Street, South Street, Wyke Street, Chantry Fields, Barnaby Mead, Bridge Close, Bay Road and Lodbourne among its flood warning areas. If you are moving out of one of those in winter, say so when you book and we will bring extra floor protection and plan the load order around it.
Storage in Gillingham
Containerised storage for Gillingham moves
Storage gets collected from your SP8 address and held in wooden containers at our Shaftesbury base, which means a part load can come straight off the back of a Gillingham move instead of needing a separate trip out. The three patterns we see most in the town are bridging when a chain stretches by a fortnight, downsizers thinning out before a move into one of the new estates, and probate clearances that need the contents somewhere secure while an estate settles. Containers are priced per crate or container, and anything going in or coming out is moved by our crew rather than by you, so there is nothing to drive to and no key to hold. Storage goes on the same quote as the removal, so there is one company and one number to deal with.
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We send every quote back within the hour. It is usually fixed straight away; if a survey is needed, we confirm the fixed price afterwards. Pick whichever bit fits your pace.
Available across Gillingham
House removals, packing, storage and piano moves in Gillingham
Quote the services your move actually needs together and they can be coordinated under one Marley Moves booking and one written plan.
Studios to 5-bed homes.
Man & Van →Fixed-price small moves and single-item pickups.
Packing Services →Full or part packing for kitchen, china and art.
Storage →Containerised storage collected and re-delivered by our removals team.
House Clearances →Probate, downsizing, end-of-tenancy.
Long Distance →UK-wide long-distance removals from Dorset.
Specialist Removals →Antiques, fine art and other fragile, heavy or awkward items.
Piano Removals →Upright and grand pianos, moved alone or as part of a wider move.
Frequent questions
Gillingham removals FAQs
Are you in Gillingham, Kent or Gillingham, Dorset?
Dorset. Our yard is at Shaftesbury, SP7, about three miles south of Gillingham, Dorset along the B3081. We do not work in Kent, so if you have found us from a Kent search you are looking at the wrong removal company.
How soon can you come and look at the house?
Usually within a day or two for an SP8 address. Gillingham is the nearest town to the yard, so a pre-move survey is a short run out rather than half a day committed, and that is what lets us fix a written price on an awkward access instead of hedging it.
Do you do man and van work in Gillingham, or only full house removals?
Both. A man and van job in Gillingham is worth quoting properly for us because the travel is short, so a single room, a part load or a few awkward items does not get padded to cover the trip out. Larger house moves in Gillingham run with the full crew and the vehicle combination the access needs.
Which removal services can go on one Gillingham booking?
House removals, packing and unpacking, storage, piano and specialist handling, house clearance, man and van and long distance moves. They go on one quote, so you deal with one company and one price rather than three.
Do you cover the SP8 postcode and the villages around Gillingham?
Yes, SP8 in full. That takes in Milton on Stour, East Stour, West Stour, Stour Provost, Buckhorn Weston, Kington Magna, Silton, Bourton and Fifehead Magdalen, along with Wyke, Peacemarsh, Ham, Bay and Colesbrook inside the town. Motcombe is SP7 and Marnhull is DT10 rather than SP8, and we cover both of those too.
Are you insured, and for how much?
Cover is £2.5m public liability and £50,000 goods in transit per load. The certificate goes out alongside the written quote rather than being something you have to ask for.
Does it matter which side of the railway my house is on?
For planning, yes. Gillingham has one road crossing of the railway, and the junctions either side of it are the town's known congestion point. Where a load has to cross it, we time that leg away from the peaks. It changes the running order of the day rather than the price.
How much does a three bedroom house move in Gillingham cost?
It is priced on the property, not off a rate card. Size, access, volume and how much packing you want set the figure, so a High Street terrace and a new build off Kiln Way with the same room count can come out differently. You get a written fixed price after the enquiry or the survey.
Can you handle moves on the older High Street and Newbury terraces?
Yes, and they get planned differently from the estates. Frontages open close to the pavement, the standing position decides the carry distance, and the conservation area around The Square means floor and frame protection as standard. We confirm the vehicle combination before move day rather than sending whatever happens to be free.
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Around 3 miles from our Shaftesbury yard, with surveys and move dates planned around our regular routes.
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We send every quote back within the hour. It is usually fixed straight away; if a survey is needed, we confirm the fixed price afterwards. Pick whichever bit fits your pace.