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We're Gentlevan, a family-run removals business based at Sibford Gower, right on the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire border. Shipston-on-Stour is on our doorstep, Warwick and Leamington Spa are about twenty minutes up the road, and Stratford-upon-Avon is a short run west. We've been moving households in and around the county since 2011.
A Warwickshire move might be a Regency flat off the Parade in Leamington, a townhouse inside Warwick's old walls, a new-build on the Rugby edge or a stone cottage in the Feldon villages south of Kineton. We take on all of it: full or part packing, furniture dismantling, piano removals, containerised storage and international removals, all under one roof. Everything runs on our own vehicles with our own crews, kept in-house rather than farmed out to a subcontractor you've never met.
The quickest way to a fixed written quote is a video walk-through. Film a short clip of each room, plus the garden, garage and shed, and send them over WhatsApp to 07861 930529 with your name and moving details. We'll come back to you with a price shortly. Prefer a visit? A free home survey anywhere in Warwickshire does the same job.
Here's the honest starting point. The prices below cover a local move within Warwickshire: Warwick, Leamington, Stratford, Kenilworth, Alcester, Southam, Shipston and the villages in between. Each figure includes the right-sized vehicle, the crew, blankets, straps and wardrobe boxes, and full goods-in-transit cover. No survey fee, and no vague "from" teaser we quietly walk back on the day.
| Move size | Typical vehicle & crew | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| 1-bed flat | Luton van, 2 crew | from £650 |
| 2-bed house or flat | 1–2 Luton vans, 2–3 crew | from £900 |
| 3-bed house | Luton vans or 18t lorry, 3 crew | from £1,440 |
| 4–5 bed house | 18t lorry, 3–4 crew | from £1,950 |
All prices shown exclude VAT. Your written quote sets out the net price, the VAT and the total, with nothing hidden.
Moving out of the county? Distance mostly buys driver hours and fuel, so a 3-bed climbs to roughly £1,800–£2,900 for a regional hop of 30 to 150 miles, and £2,900–£4,500+ for the long haul up to Scotland or down to Cornwall. Our long-distance removals service covers the lot, with dedicated pages for London, Manchester, Scotland, Cornwall and more. Full packing adds around 25–40%, and if your dates are flexible, a shared or part-load can take 30 to 40% off a longer move. The full breakdown, and what actually pushes a quote up or down, is in our guide to how much it costs to move a 3-bedroom house.
Access, volume and moving date are the three things that shift a price most. The only way to a firm number is a look at what's actually moving, so get a written quote online or book a survey. It usually comes back the same working day.
Warwickshire is a long, thin county, and no two ends of it move the same way. The south is market towns and stone villages; the middle is Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth, where the historic street pattern decides what fits; the north runs up to Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth. We work all of it from a base just over the Oxfordshire line, which is why a survey in Stratford or Southam costs you nothing and takes us no time. Here's how we handle the towns we're asked about most, or get a quote in 60 seconds.
Inside the old town, Warwick is a medieval street plan wearing Georgian clothes: Smith Street, Jury Street and the lanes off Northgate are narrow, largely on-street, and lined with listed frontages that don't forgive a careless corner. Out towards Woodloes Park, Hampton Magna and Warwick Gates it opens up into estate closes and driveways.
We size the van to the street rather than the job sheet, so a townhouse near the Castle usually gets a pair of Lutons and a shorter carry, not an 18-tonne wedged on a corner. Where a suspended bay makes the day quicker, we arrange it in advance.
Royal Leamington Spa is Regency terraces, tall stucco fronts and a lot of stairs. Around Clarendon Square, Lansdowne and the streets off the Parade you get basement flats, three and four-storey conversions and controlled parking almost everywhere. South of the river, Whitnash and the newer estates are far kinder.
Tall and narrow is our normal. We plan the carry, protect the communal stairs, and sort the parking side of it before moving day rather than hoping for a space outside.
Stratford's centre is timber-framed, tightly protected and busy with visitors most of the year, so the streets around the Birthplace and Waterside are slow going in anything long. The Shottery, Tiddington and Bishopton edges are ordinary suburban access by comparison.
For a town-centre address we start early, before the traffic and the crowds build, and use the right vehicle for the approach. Nothing wide goes where it shouldn't.
The north-east corner of the county, and the furthest of the main towns from us, though the M40 and A45 make it a straightforward run. Rugby is mostly Victorian terraces near the town and school, and large modern estates out at Cawston, Bilton and the Houlton development, where access is generally easy.
Rugby is also where a lot of our long-distance and European work starts, thanks to the DIRFT corridor bringing people in and out of the area. Terrace or new-build, we quote it the same way: survey first, fixed written price after.
Between Warwick and Coventry, Kenilworth splits into the old town up by the Castle and Abbey Fields, with narrow lanes and older cottages, and the broader Victorian and inter-war streets around Warwick Road. Family homes here often mean a full house, a garage and a loft.
Volume is the thing to get right in Kenilworth. We measure it properly at the survey so the right vehicle turns up once, instead of a small van doing three trips.
A small Roman market town on the western edge of the county, Alcester is built around Henley Street and the High Street, with narrow historic frontages, a tight one-way system and limited loading room in the centre. Around it sit the Arden villages: Wixford, Great Alne, Bidford-on-Avon and Studley.
Village and market-town access is exactly what a rural mover is built for. We check the approach before the day, then bring the vehicle that actually fits the lane.
We also move families in Southam, Shipston-on-Stour, Wellesbourne, Henley-in-Arden, Bidford-on-Avon, Kineton, Brailes, Long Compton, Nuneaton and Bedworth, and across the border into Banbury and Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton, Moreton-in-Marsh, Brackley, Bicester and Oxford. Don't see your town? We almost certainly cover it, so tell us your street and we'll confirm access and price straight away.
Most storage bookings don't start as a plan. They start when a chain slips, a completion moves, a rental starts three weeks after the sale finishes, or a house sells before the next one is found. When it happens, you're not starting again with strangers. The crew who packed and loaded your house are the same people who put it into store and bring it back out, working to the same inventory, and it stays one booking and one number to call. Your belongings go into sealed timber containers, listed and numbered, and they sit there until you're ready for them.
Your things go into sealed wooden containers, listed on an inventory, and stacked in our secure warehouse. You aren't paying for the empty air around a half-full unit, and nobody is wandering past your possessions.
The difference from self-storage is the labour: you don't drive your own things over, and you don't carry them in yourself.
The store is near Banbury, which puts it around twenty minutes from Warwick, Leamington and Shipston, and a straightforward run from Stratford, Kenilworth and Southam.
Close enough that an overnight hold between exchange and completion costs you a delay, not an extra day's driving.
Qualifying house moves get the first month free, which covers most of the gaps a chain throws up.
After that it's month by month, from a few days to several years, with no tie-in. Give us notice and we deliver your containers on.
Containerised storage isn't a unit you drop into on a Saturday, so if you know you'll want access, say so at the survey and we'll pack accordingly and keep those containers reachable.
We'll be straight with you about it: if you need weekly access to your things, a self-storage unit may genuinely suit you better than we do.
Full detail on container sizes, security and how the free month works is on our storage page. If you're not sure yet whether you'll need it, mention it at the survey anyway. We'd rather have the container ready and not use it than find out on the morning.
This is the part most local firms send elsewhere. We don't: we drive Europe ourselves. Loads leave Warwickshire on our own lorry, with our own crew, and stay on it until they're carried into the new place. Nothing is handed to an agent at a depot and hoped for.
Regular runs from Warwickshire to Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco and Gibraltar, door to door.
The full country list, with transit times and pricing, is on our European removals page.
A shared load puts your consignment on a scheduled run alongside others and takes roughly 30 to 40% off the cost, if your dates can flex. Part loads start from around £1,400. Our upcoming routes and dates are listed on the shared load availability page.
A dedicated load gives you the whole vehicle and a fixed collection and delivery date. A full household move typically runs £2,800 to £7,500 depending on volume, access and destination.
Customs paperwork, inventories and transfer-of-residence relief are handled in-house rather than left with you. Every country wants something slightly different, and we've done the run enough times to know what before we load.
Export wrapping and bespoke crating for antiques, art and anything fragile come as standard on a European load, not as an upsell.
Keys at the other end rarely land on your completion date here. We can hold your load in store until the place abroad is actually ready for it.
Your belongings sit sealed in containers at our store until you say go, then travel out on the next scheduled run.
Access abroad catches people out more than the paperwork does. Permits, restricted hours and narrow historic streets are the norm in most European cities, so it's worth reading our guide to removal van parking permits and access rules before you commit to a delivery date.
We're a small, family-run firm, not a franchise or a call centre. The person who surveys your move is on the crew that carries it out, and most of our work comes from people we've moved before or been recommended to. Our movers are DBS-checked, we're accredited by Move Assured and the Association of Independent Movers, and every move carries limited-liability cover as standard, with MoveProtect increased-liability cover up to £100,000 if your contents are worth more. Here's what that looks like on the day.
A house move goes wrong fastest when the vehicle is wrong: too big for the street, or too small so it becomes three trips. We run everything from Luton vans up to an 18-tonne lorry and a road train, and we match the vehicle to your street and your volume at the survey. For a Leamington terrace or a Warwick lane that usually means a couple of Luton vans and a slightly longer carry, not an 18-tonne stuck on a corner.
We don't price a house move blind over the phone. Guess the volume wrong and moving day falls apart. A quick video survey from your phone, or a home visit anywhere in Warwickshire, takes about twenty minutes and gets you a fixed, itemised quote with nothing hidden in the small print. When there's a chain and a hard completion date, that accuracy is the difference between a calm day and a scramble.
Some people want the whole house boxed for them; others just want the kitchen and the glassware handled and will do the books and clothes themselves. Both are fine. Our packers wrap the fragile things properly: china, mirrors, the odd barometer. Hanging clothes go straight into wardrobe boxes and back out at the other end. Full packing usually adds around 25–40% to the move.
Flat-pack that's been standing for ten years, IKEA Pax runs, cabin beds, the sofa that won't go through the door in one piece. We take apart what needs it and put it back together at the new house, so you're not left with an Allen key and a bad evening. It's planned in at the survey, not sprung on you on the day.
Carpet film down the traffic routes, and blankets and covers on the furniture. A muddy February move shouldn't leave marks on a brand-new hall carpet, and it won't. That's standard on every job, not an upsell.
Uprights, grands, gun safes: we've shifted hundreds over the years, and it comes down to technique and the right skates and straps, not brute force. If there's something heavy in the house you're worried about, mention it early and we'll bring the right kit. More on our piano removals page.
Plenty of local firms will quote you for Spain and then sell the job on. We drive it. Your load leaves Warwickshire on our vehicle with our crew and comes off it at the other end, with the paperwork done here rather than pushed back to you. See international removals above.
Chains break and dates move. If completion and moving day come apart, your belongings go into our containerised store, sealed and kept safe, with the first month free on qualifying moves. It's the same crew who packed and loaded your house, working to the same inventory, so nothing gets lost in a handover. See storage for Warwickshire moves above.
A deposit secures your date and we confirm it in writing on a signed acceptance form. We don't overbook the busy end of the month and quietly drop someone at the last minute. When we say we'll be there on your completion day, the lorry is on the schedule.
Being small and local is the point, not a limitation. For most of the families we move, it's one of the biggest days of the year, and it's usually a face you've already met, at the survey or on a neighbour's move, who turns up on the morning. Nearly all our work comes from word of mouth around Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, which only happens if the details are right. On the day, that means:
Whether you are moving within Warwick, relocating from Leamington Spa or Stratford-upon-Avon to the other end of the country, or moving on to Europe, Gentlevan Removals delivers a great-value, professional door-to-door service. We assess your specific needs, visit your home for a free survey, and provide a fully written, obligation-free quotation. Need to store your belongings between moves? Our containerised storage is available for short and long-term needs and sits within easy reach of the whole county.
Every move includes limited-liability cover, which protects your belongings up to a set limit. If your contents are worth more than that limit (a serious watch or art collection, antiques, anything hard to replace), MoveProtect raises the liability to match, with cover up to £100,000. It's a quick conversation at the survey or with the office, and we'll tell you straight whether you actually need it rather than sell you cover you don't.
When your house removal in Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon, Rugby, Kenilworth, Alcester or anywhere else in the county is approaching, contact Gentlevan Removals & Storage to arrange a free, no-obligation home survey. Our experienced surveyor will visit your home at a time that suits you to discuss every detail of your move.
Prefer a remote option? We can carry out a video survey by calling you at a mutually agreed time, or you can send video clips of your home to our WhatsApp number for a fast, hassle-free quote. See our video survey guide for tips on how to film your home.
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A typical 3-bedroom house move within Warwickshire starts at £1,440 plus VAT. Smaller moves start lower, with a 1-bed flat from around £650 and a 2-bed house from around £900, while larger 4–5 bedroom homes start from around £1,950. All prices exclude VAT and include the vehicle, crew and standard equipment; long-distance, international and full packing are quoted separately. Request a free quote for a precise written price that shows the net, the VAT and the total.
We cover the whole county. Our base is on the Oxfordshire border, so Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon, Kenilworth, Alcester, Southam, Shipston-on-Stour and Wellesbourne are all short runs for us, and we work north to Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth as well. We also cover the villages in between, including Henley-in-Arden, Bidford-on-Avon, Long Compton, Brailes and Kineton, and across the border into Banbury and Oxfordshire.
We're a family-run removals business based at Sibford Gower, on the Oxfordshire side of the Warwickshire border, a few minutes from Shipston-on-Stour and around twenty minutes from Warwick and Leamington Spa. We've been moving households in and around the county since 2011. We're not a franchise, a call centre or a broker: the person who surveys your move is on the crew that carries it out, and our vehicles are our own.
Yes, and it's a large part of what we do. We run our own vehicles from Warwickshire to Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco and Gibraltar, with shared loads for smaller consignments and dedicated loads when you need the whole vehicle and a fixed date. Export wrapping, inventories and customs paperwork are handled in-house, and your goods stay on our lorry door to door rather than being passed between agents. See our European removals page.
A shared or part load to Spain or France starts from around £1,400, and a full household move typically runs from £2,800 to £7,500 depending on volume, access and destination. A shared load can take 30 to 40% off the cost of a dedicated vehicle if your dates are flexible. Current routes and dates are on the shared load availability page. Every international move is quoted in writing after a survey, with the net price, the VAT position and the total set out clearly.
Yes. Both centres are exactly the kind of access we plan for: Warwick's medieval street pattern and narrow historic frontages, and the Regency terraces and basement flats around Leamington's parades, where parking is controlled and a long lorry is often the wrong tool. We size the vehicle to the street rather than the job sheet, and where a suspended bay or a parking permit makes the carry shorter, we arrange it ahead of time.
Yes. Storage is handled by the same crew that moves you, so it stays one booking and one number to call. Your belongings go into sealed timber containers, listed on an inventory, at our secure site a short run from anywhere in south Warwickshire. That's the difference from a self-storage unit, where you drive your own things over, carry them in yourself and pay for the empty space around them. One month of free storage is included on qualifying moves. Full detail is on our storage page.
Anything from a few days to several years. Most storage bookings start as a short gap between exchange and completion, and some run on far longer, particularly for people moving abroad or renting while they look for the right house. You're not tied in: give us notice and we deliver your containers on.
Four to six weeks is comfortable for a local move, and longer for the end of the month, school holidays and international dates, which fill first. If your completion date isn't fixed yet, book the survey anyway. It costs nothing, it holds a slot in the diary, and it means we're ready to move the moment the chain settles.
Every move includes limited-liability cover as standard, which protects your belongings up to a set limit. If your contents are worth more than that limit, our MoveProtect increased-liability cover raises it to match, up to £100,000. We're accredited by Move Assured and the Association of Independent Movers, and our movers are trained and DBS-checked.
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