The Street pickups
Parking by the pubs on the conservation-area high street is very limited, so being dropped is easier.
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Farnham & surrounding area
Wrecclesham is a village of roughly 3,000 people on Farnham's southern edge, with a conservation area along The Street and a real industrial past in pottery and brickmaking rather than being a dormitory estate. The A325 runs straight through the middle of it, which is both the convenience and the bottleneck for a taxi through the middle of it.
Tell us you're in Wrecclesham when you call. Most local fares are quoted on the spot.
Closest to Farnham
Same drivers, same phone number, wherever you're starting from.
Parking by the pubs on the conservation-area high street is very limited, so being dropped is easier.
Farnham station is about a mile and a quarter north-east, a quick and frequent run.
Four miles down the same A325, with car parks that fill on weekends and in the holidays.
Nearby coverage
Part of the same closest to farnham group we cover from Farnham.
Local knowledge
Wrecclesham keeps a green, a recreation ground and a working high street even though it runs continuously into Farnham. Its heritage is industrial: Farnham Pottery here is one of the best-preserved working Victorian country potteries in England, famous for its owl jugs until the 1950s. Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe both played at the recreation ground as youngsters.
Every journey starts at your own door, so nobody has to walk to a meeting point. These are simply the places people name when they book, and the landmarks drivers navigate by. The three pubs on and around The Street come up often, along with St Peter's Church on the village green, consecrated in 1840 by Bishop Charles Sumner. Farnham Pottery, now listed, is the landmark visitors ask about. The recreation ground hosts cricket, football, rugby and tennis clubs, and Weydon School lies just north-east.
The A325 through the conservation area is narrow and carries everything heading for Bordon and Petersfield, so peak-time journeys through The Street take longer than the distance suggests. Parking by the pubs is very limited, which is one reason a booked car beats driving in. For an early flight we route around it where we can rather than sit in it.
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 people usually ask about local journeys from Wrecclesham.
No. The Wrecclesham Traincare Depot is a rail maintenance facility, not a passenger station, which catches people out when they see it on a map. Farnham station is about a mile and a quarter north-east.
Because the A325 carries all the Bordon and Petersfield traffic through what is really a narrow conservation-area high street. It backs up at peak, and parking by the pubs is very limited, which is why a lot of people book rather than drive.
Yes, it is about four miles south-west along the same A325 at Bucks Horn Oak. The paid car parks there fill at weekends and in the school holidays, so a drop-off and a booked pickup usually beats arriving and hunting for a space.
The Bear and Ragged Staff at 48 The Street, a seventeenth-century pub with a fourteenth-century barn, the Royal Oak at number 59, and the Sandrock on Sandrock Hill Road.
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