Stonehouse at a glance
Set in Gloucestershire with the GL10 postcode, this town of 8,302 people is well connected for moves around the county, with Stonehouse station just 0.8 miles from the centre and Gloucester the nearest main town at 10.3 miles, a 20 minute drive. Stroud is close by at 3.9 miles in 9 minutes, while Quedgeley and Hardwicke is 6.5 miles in 11 minutes and Nailsworth 7 miles in 16 minutes; Cam sits 7.3 miles away in 14 minutes, with Chalford at 8.9 miles in 20 minutes and Dursley at 9.1 miles in 19 minutes. For wider errands, Brockworth is 13.1 miles in 17 minutes, Tetbury 13.7 miles in 27 minutes, and Lydney 28.7 miles in 48 minutes. It also serves smaller places on its doorstep, including Eastington at 1.2 miles, Ryeford at 1.4 miles, Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley at 1.5 miles, Whitminster at 2 miles, Frampton on Severn at 3.3 miles, and Saul at 3.6 miles, making short hops between homes and storage straightforward. Typical jobs here include house and flat moves to and from the towns nearby, single items such as a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe or a washing machine, and tip runs of old furniture, garden waste and clutter to the recycling centre. For clear-outs, Hempsted Household Recycling Centre is 7.6 miles from the centre, so it is easy to load up and head over. Whether you are relocating within Stonehouse, swapping keys with family in Stroud or Dursley, furnishing a new place in Cam or Chalford, or clearing a garage in Eastington, Whitminster or Frampton on Severn, the short travel times around the town help keep moving days simple, with the station and nearby towns giving plenty of options for coordinating access, timing and onward journeys.
Stonehouse sits within the GL10 postcode district, with its own railway station less than a mile from the centre and permit parking arrangements that shape how removals and deliveries are managed locally. The town lies close to Stroud, whose station is around 3.3 miles away, and to Cam and Dursley, with a station roughly 3.5 miles out, making it a useful base for moves across this part of Gloucestershire. Nearby towns such as Stroud, Cam, Quedgeley and Hardwicke, Nailsworth and Dursley are all within a few miles, giving a sense of the wider area Van & Driver aims to serve from Stonehouse.
Van & Driver is a marketplace built around a simple idea: you book a van with a driver at a fixed price, and the move is carried out by a local partner. In Stonehouse, this service is not yet live, so bookings cannot be made here at present. Once it launches, the plan is to offer support across the same range of moves used elsewhere, including house removals, man-with-a-van work, furniture delivery, tip runs, next-day van hire, storage moves, student removals, marketplace deliveries and commercial courier work, all built around clear, fixed pricing for the town and its surrounding area.
Stonehouse had 8,302 people at the 2021 Census. The council's nearest recycling centre is Hempsted Household Recycling Centre, 7.6 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
