Local removal company · Mere, Wiltshire · BA12
Removals Mere
The van gets chosen before the crew leaves Shaftesbury, because Mere's older centre decides it for us. The Square, Castle Street and Salisbury Street give you whatever width the parked cars leave on the day, and a vehicle that can drive the road is not always one that can stand on it long enough to load. So we work out the entrance, the stopping point and the carry distance first, then send the right van and the right number of people. Marley Moves is family-run and eight miles down the road at Shaftesbury, which is why removals in Mere are a weekly run for us rather than an occasional trip out. Our own crew do the job, not subcontractors, and packing, storage, pianos, house clearance and long-distance work all sit on the same booking.
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Get a written quote within the hour
5.0 ★★★★★ Google rating · Family-run · Fully insured · Or call 01747 637070
Why us, here
Mere removals, and the villages that come with them
Mere sits in the far south-west corner of Wiltshire, just eight miles from our Shaftesbury base and four miles from Gillingham along the B3092, with the Dorset and Somerset borders right alongside. Because the A303 bypasses the northern edge of the town, every Mere move drops off the trunk road onto older local streets around The Square, Castle Street, Salisbury Street and Boar Street. Castle Hill rises steeply on the north-west side, and Steep Street and Long Hill make gradient a live part of planning a Mere job. Outside the centre we work the parish hamlets at Barrow Street, Burton, Charnage, Limpers Hill, Rook Street and Southbrook, plus nearby Zeals, Stourton, West Knoyle and Kilmington, where lane width and turning space decide the vehicle. Because we are so close, same-day moves within 25 miles and short-notice man and van jobs in Mere are straightforward to cover without padding the quote for travel.
In Mere we cover house removals, packing and storage, and also serve nearby Gillingham, Wincanton and Shaftesbury.
Compared
Comparing removal companies in Mere
No large removal firm is based inside Mere itself, so quotes for a BA12 move come either from a nearby local yard or from a regional firm travelling down from Salisbury, Warminster or further afield. Four questions worth asking any removals company in Mere before you book.
Ask how far the yard is from Mere. Our yard is eight miles away in Shaftesbury via the B3092, so popping over to check a cottage on Salisbury Street, Castle Street or out in Zeals takes twenty minutes rather than half a day. That lets us size the vehicle and carry distance before we quote.
Ask whether the crew is in-house or subcontracted. We never subcontract a Mere move. The permanent in-house Marley Moves team that walks round your home at survey is the same crew that wraps the furniture, loads the van and places everything in the new rooms.
Ask whether the price is fixed in writing. An hourly estimate puts the risk of parked cars on Salisbury Street or summer queues on the A303 onto you. Our fixed written quote locks in the price for the agreed scope before moving day, with no weekend surcharge and no hidden extras.
Ask what packing materials and cover are included. Once you accept your quote and pay your booking payment, we supply free removal boxes and tape for your move (up to forty removal boxes and two rolls of tape, subject to availability), and every vehicle carries full public liability insurance plus belongings liability cover up to £25,000 per vehicle as standard.
Whether you are moving within BA12, downsizing from a village house around Stourton or Zeals, or heading long distance via the A303, call Connor and the team on 01747 637070 or send both postcodes through the quote form.
Routes, access & parking
Getting a removal lorry off the A303 and into Mere
The A303 runs along the northern edge of Mere rather than through it, and has done since the bypass opened in 1976. That helps the approach and helps nothing at all once you are off it, because the turn down into town puts you straight onto streets laid out long before anyone built a Luton body. East of Mere the trunk road drops back to single carriageway for about seven and a half miles towards Chicklade Bottom, which is where the summer and bank holiday queues form, so a load routed in from the Salisbury side can lose an hour nobody planned for. Stourhead sits three miles north-west and is signposted off the same road, busy enough that the National Trust recorded over 380,000 visits there in a single year, so on a fine weekend the roads on that side of town fill up with people who are not moving house. We start the bigger loads early on those days. In the town itself the B3092 is doing two jobs at once, Gillingham road one way and Stourhead road the other, and Salisbury Street is the B3095 rather than a quiet side street, which is why a car parked half on the kerb there causes more trouble than it looks like it should.
Property types
From the old centre out to the hamlets
The centre is the old part of Mere: stone and render, sash windows, narrow hallways and staircases that turn where you would rather they did not. There is listed property in there, Salisbury Street included, and a listed doorway is a good reason to bring runner mats and door guards rather than find out the hard way. Move out from The Square and it changes quickly, to the closes and cul-de-sacs on the edge of town where the constraint is the driveway rather than the street, and then to the hamlets at Barrow Street, Burton, Charnage, Rook Street and Southbrook, where the question stops being the staircase and starts being whether the lane will take the vehicle and where it turns round afterwards. We measure the awkward item, usually a wardrobe, a piano or a corner sofa, against the actual doorway before move day rather than on the morning.
Practical tips
Where we load in Mere, and when
There is off-street parking at Castle Street and Salisbury Street, both close to the centre, and on a tight town-centre job we will sometimes hold the second vehicle in one of them and shuttle rather than block a street for a whole day. If your loading position depends on a neighbour's car not being there, say so at the quote stage and we will plan for it being there anyway. Timing is worth a thought too. Mere's secondary-age children go over the county line to Gillingham School in Dorset, so families here tend to want the move landed either side of term rather than in the middle of it, and those dates go early. Every load carries our full public liability insurance, plus liability cover for your belongings of up to £25,000 per vehicle as standard, or £50,000 per vehicle as an optional paid upgrade agreed in writing before the move date, and on a gradient we would rather add a person than rush a trolley.
Storage in Mere
Containerised storage for Mere moves
When completion dates on a Mere sale and your onward purchase do not line up, or while building work is under way on a period property around Salisbury Street, Castle Street or Zeals, we collect and hold your belongings in secure wooden containers and crates at our Shaftesbury base eight miles away. Everything is loaded at your door by our crew and redelivered when you have the keys, with no self-store van hire or double handling. Your storage charge includes liability cover of £500 per crate and £2,500 per container; for anything worth more, please arrange your own insurance.
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Tell us where you are moving from and to. We fix the price in writing before move day, after a quick phone call, video walk-through or free in-person survey.
Available across Mere
Home moves, storage and specialist moves in Mere
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.
Piano Removals →Upright and grand pianos, moved alone or as part of a wider move.
Specialist Removals →Antiques, fine art and other fragile, heavy or awkward items.
Student Moves →Halls, house shares and storage between terms.
Short Notice Moves →When a completion date shifts or an urgent deadline lands.
Frequent questions
Mere removals: the questions we get asked
Which parts of Mere and BA12 do you cover?
Mere itself, the parish hamlets at Barrow Street, Burton, Charnage, Limpers Hill, Rook Street and Southbrook, and the villages either side of the county line towards Gillingham and Wincanton. BA12 is the one to watch, because the same postcode district also reaches Warminster ten miles north, so we confirm the actual collection and delivery addresses rather than working off the outcode.
How much does a removal company in Mere charge?
Access sets the figure as much as the size of the house does. A two-bedroom cottage on Castle Street, where the nearest the van gets is round the corner, can take more crew and more hours than a three-bedroom house on the newer edge of town with somewhere to stand outside the door. We look at both addresses, the carry distance at each end and anything awkward that has to come down a turning stair, then send a written quote within the hour with the price fixed rather than estimated.
Can you get a removal van into Castle Street, Salisbury Street and The Square?
Usually, though not always with the biggest vehicle, and that is the call we make first. Salisbury Street carries the B3095 through the middle of town, so where we stand affects more than the house being loaded, and the older streets around The Square narrow wherever cars are parked. We settle the stopping point and the carry distance before we allocate the van, so a restricted load-in changes the crew and the vehicle rather than turning up as a surprise on the morning.
Do you move homes out at Stourton, Zeals and the lanes around Stourhead?
Yes. Those addresses bring a different set of problems and none of them are stairs: lane width, overhanging branches, a gateway built for a car rather than a van, and nowhere obvious to turn a long vehicle round at the end of the day. We check the approach and the turning space when we quote, then pick the vehicle to suit the worst point on the route rather than the best one.
Can I add packing or storage to a Mere move?
Yes, and both are worth deciding early rather than late. Packing is booked as its own day or half day, so it needs a slot in the diary alongside the move itself. Storage is containerised and handled by our own team, so a Mere move can go into store and come back out on our schedule, which is the usual answer when the two dates do not line up.
What should I check before booking any of the removal companies in Mere?
Ask whether the number is fixed or an estimate that can move once the van is loaded. Ask what the liability cover limit is per vehicle, and get the answer in writing rather than on the phone. Ask whether anyone has actually looked at the access at both ends, because in a town like Mere that is the difference between a quote and a guess. And ask what happens if your completion date slips, because sooner or later it does.
Do you offer man and van moves in Mere as well as full house removals?
Yes. Because our yard is eight miles away down the B3092, small moves, studio flats, single-item furniture pickups and part loads in Mere and Zeals are easy for us to cover on a fixed written price without padding for travel.
What insurance and belongings cover is included on a Mere move?
Every move carries our £2m public liability cover, plus liability cover for your belongings up to £25,000 per vehicle as standard, with £50,000 per vehicle as an optional paid upgrade agreed in writing before the move date. For storage between moves, your storage charge includes liability cover of £500 per crate and £2,500 per container.
Nearby areas we cover
Also covering nearby
Marley Moves & Mere
We move people across Mere from our Shaftesbury, SP7 yard.
Around 8 miles from our Shaftesbury yard, with surveys and move dates planned around our regular routes.
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