Who we are
A county firm covering Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton, Market Harborough, Coalville and the villages between — house moves, family moves, student moves, long-distance work out of the East Midlands, and removals into Europe.
Moving here, specifically
Four things shape a Leicestershire move more than anything else: the housing stock, the roads, the university calendar and the time of day you start. All four are settled before moving day rather than during it.
Leicester is Victorian and Edwardian terrace at scale, with student houses layered over it. Oadby, Wigston and Birstall are interwar and postwar semis, mostly with drives. Out in the Wolds and around Ashby it is stone and older brick, with doorways built for smaller furniture. Each one wants a different amount of dismantling, and the survey is where that gets decided.
Few counties are better placed for a long run: the M1 north and south, the M69 to Coventry, the A46 across, the A6 through the middle. What the motorway network does not help with is the city centre at eight in the morning, or a Charnwood lane that narrows to a single vehicle between granite walls.
Leicester and Loughborough together move a great many households every summer, and the rental market turns over with them. It concentrates demand into a few weeks, which is worth knowing whether you are a student, a landlord or a family who simply wants a van in August.
City terraces need the parked cars to clear; commuter villages empty themselves by half past eight; market towns have a restricted core and, in Melton and Harborough, a market day that closes streets. We set the start time from your street rather than from a default.
What we do
Whole households across the county — Victorian terrace in the city, interwar semi in Wigston or Oadby, a stone house in the Wolds, or a new build outside Hinckley.
What it involves →Moves built around a school run, a shift pattern or a start date, with beds rebuilt first and the kitchen working the same evening.
What it involves →The M1, M69 and A46 make this county one of the easiest places in England to start a long run from — north, south or west, with one crew at both ends.
What it involves →Two universities in the county and a rental market that turns over every summer. Room moves, house shares and storage over the holidays.
What it involves →Two people and a van for part-loads, single items, marketplace collections and the jobs that do not need a full removal crew.
What it involves →Packing at whatever level suits the household, and inventoried storage for the interval between a sale and a purchase — or a term and a tenancy.
What it involves →Leicestershire to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal — export packing, the customs file and delivery at the far end.
How a European move runs →Where we work
Leicestershire is a city, four or five market towns and a lot of villages, and each part behaves differently on moving day. Here is what we cover and what each part is actually like to work in.
City centre · Clarendon Park · Stoneygate · Highfields · Aylestone
Victorian and Edwardian terrace at scale, plus student houses and city-centre flats. Parking is the whole question, and a permit or a suspended bay is often the answer.
Oadby · Wigston · Kibworth · Great Glen
Interwar and postwar suburbs with drives, plus village streets towards Market Harborough. Among the easiest access in the county.
Loughborough · Shepshed · Quorn · Barrow upon Soar
University town and the Soar valley villages. Loughborough itself has its own removals firm and we link to them for purely local work.
Hinckley · Earl Shilton · Burbage · Market Bosworth
Market-town centres with narrow cores, newer estates on the edges, and the M69 corridor which makes the west of the county quick to reach.
Melton Mowbray · Asfordby · Bottesford · the Vale of Belvoir
Stone and brick village houses, farm conversions and lanes that decide the vehicle. Further from the motorway than anywhere else we cover.
Market Harborough · Lutterworth · Broughton Astley
Georgian town centres with restricted loading, and commuter villages along the A6 and M1 where the mornings empty early.
Coalville · Ibstock · Ashby-de-la-Zouch · Measham
Former coalfield towns and the newer estates around them, with Ashby the most period-heavy stock in the west of the county.
Rothley · Mountsorrel · Anstey · Woodhouse Eaves
Granite, slopes and narrow lanes on the edge of Charnwood Forest. Beautiful, and slower to work in than the map suggests.
removals-loughborough.co.uk works that town every day and knows the student streets, the one-way system and the terraces better than a county outfit can. For a move that starts and finishes in Loughborough, ring them. For a move from Loughborough to anywhere else in the county or beyond, that is ours.
leicestershire-removals.uk is a separate company covering the same county in a different style. If that is who you were looking for, that is where they are.
The European arm
From the middle of England the drive to the crossing is a known quantity: the M1 south, round London, and out through Kent. The part that decides the date is the customs file, and it has a much longer lead time than the packing.
Paris, Normandy, the Loire and the south-west — M1 south, round London, out through Kent.
Madrid, Catalonia, the Costa Blanca and Andalucía, overland through France and Irún.
Milan, the lakes, Tuscany and Rome, by Alpine tunnel or the Ligurian coast road.
Lisbon, Porto, the Silver Coast and the Algarve, the long way across Iberia.
Worth knowing
The questions that come up on almost every first call, answered without hedging.
The county: Leicester city, Oadby and Wigston, Loughborough and the Soar valley, Hinckley and the west, Melton and the Wolds, Market Harborough and the south-east, Coalville and Ashby, and the Charnwood villages. Loughborough has its own town firm and we link to them for purely local work there.
A survey first — in person, or by video for a smaller property — so somebody has seen the volume, the access and the stairs. Then a written quote setting out what is included and what would change it. Nothing is priced from a room count over the phone.
Constantly. Two universities in the county and a rental market that turns over every summer mean room moves, house-share moves and storage over the holidays are ordinary work rather than a sideline.
Yes, and Leicestershire is one of the easiest places in England to start a long run from — the M1 north and south, the M69 west, the A46 across. One crew loads and unloads, whichever direction you are going.
Tell us as soon as you know. The load goes into storage, inventoried as it is packed, and comes out when you have keys — so you move once rather than camping in a half-furnished house.
Regularly. The Charnwood lanes and parts of the Wolds will not take a full-size vehicle, and the answer is a smaller body with a shuttle — planned at survey and written on the quote rather than discovered on the morning.
Yes — leicestershire-removals.uk is a separate company covering the same county in a different style. If that is who you were looking for, the coverage page links them.
A survey costs nothing and turns an estimate into a written quote. Rooms, access and the dates are enough to start.