Your van and driver in Shrivenham and Watchfield
How it works, what it costs and who turns up.
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What a van and driver is
A van, a driver, a fixed price – and no bidding.
A van and driver is the middle ground between hiring a van yourself and booking a removals firm.
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Van and driver versus man and van
Same idea, better promise.
"Man and van" is what people search for; it usually means one person with their own van, quoted on the phone, paid in cash, and you hope they turn up.
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What fits in each van
We measure in wheelie bins. One bin's worth is about eight bin bags.
Picture a wheelie bin. One bin's worth is a few boxes and bags. Two is a fridge or a washing machine with room to spare. Four is a room.
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How the price works
Fixed prices, the same everywhere.
A move's price depends on how much is moving, not where you live. A wheelie bin's worth is £69 anywhere in England; a full load is £349 in Salisbury, Sheffield or Southend.
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Who turns up
Checked, insured, rated – and paid properly.
Every driver is an independent partner who has shown us their licence, their hire-and-reward insurance, goods-in-transit and public liability cover, and their right to work, before they're offered a single job.
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Lifting, stairs and awkward things
Two people when the job needs them, at no extra cost.
We decide from what you're moving: a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge, or a medium load and up gets two people, and that's already in the price. There's nothing to choose and nothing extra to pay.
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Booking, changing and cancelling
Two minutes to book. Change it yourself up to 48 hours before.
Book online for today (until 3pm; after that, tomorrow from 1pm) or any day up to about six months ahead, by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
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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.
About Shrivenham and Watchfield
Shrivenham and Watchfield at a glance
Shrivenham and Watchfield, sitting in the SN6 postcode area of Oxfordshire, is the sort of place where a single village name covers two communities close to the Wiltshire border, just a few miles from Highworth and Faringdon. Anyone shifting a sofa, clearing a house, or dropping a few boxes off to a friend in Swindon can book a van with a driver here through Van & Driver, with the price fixed before the move starts rather than left to a running clock. That matters in a spread-out area like this, where a trip to one of the storage sites over in Swindon, a delivery to St Margarets Retail Park, or a tip run to a licensed recycling centre can vary a fair bit in distance depending on where you start from. Whether it is a single item, a half-van load or a full house removal, the same principle applies: you see the price for the trip you need, whether that is staying within Shrivenham and Watchfield itself or heading out to Highworth, Faringdon or Stratton St Margaret. The service covers the practical end of moving life too, from student removals and furniture delivery to next-day van bookings and commercial courier work, all arranged through the same simple process, with a local partner driver carrying out the move once it is booked.
Shrivenham and Watchfield had 5,353 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from St Margarets Retail Park is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Stanford Waste Recycling Centre, 5.7 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
