One-direction turn
From the wrong carriageway you must continue to the Alton roundabout and come back. There is no turning across.
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Orbit Taxis drives wedding days at Froyle Park, an exclusive-use Jacobean manor built around 1620 and licensed for 300 guests with beds for 66. The most useful thing a taxi driver can know here is the approach: the A31 turn only works from one direction, and getting it wrong costs a run to the Alton roundabout and back, then a single unlit lane at the end of the night.
Tell us your guest numbers and running order. We'll send a day-rate quote, not a per-trip price.
This venue
Froyle Park is a quieter country setting, so we plan pickups around the single-track access roads.
From the wrong carriageway you must continue to the Alton roundabout and come back. There is no turning across.
The bulk of the party leaves by road at the end, down a single unlit lane.
Alton is 3.6 miles away and has a rank, which helps for arrivals.
How it works
Tell us the running order once. We build the driver schedule around it.
Other venues
Getting married somewhere else nearby? Every venue below is quoted the same way.
Guest shuttles and late-night returns booked as one coordinated day rate.
See this venue →A regular venue for us. We know the drop-off points and timings well.
See this venue →Multiple cars scheduled together for ceremony, reception and the ride home.
See this venue →Guest transport for on-site weddings, plus onward transfers the next morning.
See this venue →The relaunched Blacknest site, with the reception outdoors and pickups from an agreed point.
See this venue →Coordinated arrivals for larger guest lists, staged so no one queues at the gate.
See this venue →Central location. Easy connections to Farnham Station for out-of-town guests.
See this venue →Barn weddings with rural access. Drivers who already know the turning.
See this venue →Local knowledge
The house was built around 1620 by Sir John Jephson on the site of an earlier medieval building, whose fabric survives in the basement. It was a military hospital in the First World War, then part of a college from 1949 until around 2011, and was converted back to a country manor and opened as a wedding venue in 2011. It is Grade II* listed, with the Grade I listed Church of St Mary adjoining the estate.
Take the Upper Froyle turning off the A31, keep right of the Hen and Chicken, then up Ryebridge Lane and bear right at the top. The entrance is roughly 300 yards on, opposite Yarnhams Lane, just before the church. From the opposite carriageway there is no turn: you continue to the Alton roundabout and come back.
Three hundred guests, 66 beds and one narrow uphill lane is a combination that does not survive being improvised. We stage departures through the last part of the evening so cars are not meeting each other on Ryebridge Lane, and we split runs between Farnham, Alton and the airports according to where people are actually going.
The cars
Luggage is where most airport bookings go wrong. These are the real limits, not the optimistic ones.
The standard car for one to four people. Two checked-in bags in the boot plus two items of hand luggage.
Six seats with room for two large suitcases in the back plus four items of hand luggage.
Seven seats filled, with five large suitcases in the boot plus six items of hand luggage.
Questions
What couples and planners usually ask.
From the A31 take the Upper Froyle turning, keep right of the Hen and Chicken pub, follow Ryebridge Lane up the hill and bear right at the top. The entrance is about 300 yards further on the right, opposite Yarnhams Lane and just before the church.
You cannot turn across the dual carriageway. Drivers on the opposite side have to continue to the Alton roundabout and come back, which is why a driver who knows the venue saves real time on a tight schedule.
Most of them. The estate sleeps up to 66 across its apartments and the licence runs to 300 guests, so the late-night movement is large and it all goes down one narrow uphill lane.
Alton at about 3.6 miles, and it has a taxi rank outside, which the venue points out itself. Bentley is closer to the village but has a much sparser service, and there is no meaningful bus to Upper Froyle.
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Tell us your guest numbers and we'll send a day-rate quote, not a per-trip price.
A dispatcher will text your fixed quote to the mobile you gave us, usually within ten minutes. Need it sooner? Call 01252 280 717.
The dispatch line is answered by a person, in Farnham, at any hour. Or request a quote and we'll text you back within ten minutes.