Van and Driver in Leicester

Road miles from Leicester

Leicester to Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe is 3.7 miles by road, 13 minutes.

What a move from Leicester costs to the towns around it, with the miles included: a bin's worth (a few boxes and bags), half a van (a room or two) and a full load (most of a house).

How it works

1. Tell us what's moving: add your things, or pick a load size. A single item in Leicester is £55.
2. Add the addresses and pick a day and an hour. The price is fixed before you pay, with nothing added on the day.
3. Your driver turns up in the hour you chose, loads, drives and unloads with you.

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Same day? Yes, until 3pm.

Today, if you book by 3pm.

Book before 3pm and you can pick today: the earliest one-hour arrival is the hour after next (book at 10:20 and it's 12 to 1), if a partner's free. After 3pm, the earliest is 1pm tomorrow.

Leicester at a glance

Moves within LE3, LE2, LE5, LE4 and LE1 tend to be concentrated around the compact academic and retail core, with Leicester station 0.7 miles from the centre linking easily to study addresses and city flats. Students shift between De Montfort University 0.1 miles from the middle, the University of Leicester 0.6 miles away, and the University of Leicester Central Campus 0.8 miles, often alongside flat moves within the town itself. For furnishing a new place or replacing a single item such as a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe or a washing machine, most collections are from Highcross 0.4 miles from the centre, Haymarket Centre 0.5 miles and St George's Retail Park 0.8 miles, which sit close to the same postcodes people are moving between. Storage runs are frequent too, with The Space Place 0.5 miles, Mint Safety Deposit Centre 0.8 miles, Shurgard Self-Storage 0.9 miles and Safestore 1.3 miles all within easy reach for loads into and out of self storage or for staging a house move. Tip runs of old furniture, garden waste and clutter usually head for Freemen's Common Recycling Centre 0.9 miles from the centre, which neatly fits into the same short-hop routes as the shops and campuses. While house and flat moves to and from the towns nearby are common, most days revolve around quick transfers across those central districts, timed to match student moves at the start and end of term, or to dovetail with retail park collections and storage access. Single-room swaps and whole-flat relocations sit alongside one-off deliveries, and the proximity of the station, the universities, the retail parks, several storage sites and the recycling centre keeps journey planning straightforward within LE3, LE2, LE5, LE4 and LE1.

Leicester had 406,612 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Highcross, Haymarket Centre and St George's Retail Park is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Freemen's Common Recycling Centre, 0.9 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.