County-wide coverage
Removals in Cornwall
A county-wide removals company for a long, thin, remote county. We move homes and businesses right across Cornwall — from the far west at Penzance to Bude on the north coast — and we know what the lanes, the hills and the harbour towns ask of a move.
Cornwall isn’t one place, it’s a string of them, spread along the A30 with the sea never far on either side. Moving here — or away from here — means dealing with narrow high-hedged lanes, steep coastal villages, granite cottages with doorways built for smaller times, and long distances between towns. That’s the job, and it’s the job we do every week.
Below is the county the way we actually work it, town by town. Every one is different: Falmouth’s waterfront is nothing like the clay country behind St Austell, and a move into the top of St Ives has almost nothing in common with one across Camborne. What stays the same is the care — surveyed first, protected properly, planned around the access rather than in spite of it.
TR1
Truro — the city in the middle
Truro is Cornwall’s only city and its county town, so it sits at the centre of most things — including a lot of our routes. The cathedral’s three spires, the Georgian sweep of Lemon Street, the shops and offices around Boscawen Street and Lemon Quay.
We keep Truro lighter here on purpose — it’s a big enough place to deserve its own page one day. For now: we move homes and businesses right across TR1, from the terraces up Kenwyn to the newer estates at Threemilestone and the office units on the edges of town.
Access: The one-way system and the pinch down to Lemon Quay mean timing and parking matter more than distance. We plan the load-in around the city-centre restrictions.
TR7–TR8
Newquay — the surf coast and the airport
Newquay runs along the north coast on its headlands, Fistral on one side and the town beaches on the other. It’s a town of holiday-lets and second homes as much as year-round houses, which shapes the moves: quick turnarounds between seasons, furnished and unfurnished lets, and a fair few people arriving to start again by the sea.
Cornwall Airport Newquay, up on the cliff at St Mawgan, brings a steady flow of relocations in and out — people moving for work at the airport, the aerohub, or simply landing here from up-country and heading into a new home.
Access: Headland roads are narrow and the summer traffic is real. Beachfront flats can mean stairs and no parking at the door — we sort the access before the day.
PL25–PL26
St Austell — clay country and the bay
St Austell grew on china clay, and the evidence is all around it — the white spoil tips, the “Cornish Alps” behind the town, and the pits that still work the ground. The town itself terraces down towards the bay and the restored Georgian harbour at Charlestown.
It’s PL25 and PL26 territory, and the moves are as mixed as the housing: miners’ terraces, post-war semis, newer estates spreading out towards St Blazey and Bugle, and the villages scattered through the clay. The Eden Project sits a couple of valleys over, and we cover the parishes around it.
Access: Steep terraced streets and some tight harbour lanes at Charlestown. Nothing we haven’t done — but worth a look first so we bring the right van.
TR18–TR20
Penzance — the far west
Penzance is where the A30 finally runs out and the railway ends. It curves around Mount’s Bay with St Michael’s Mount out in the water, a long seafront promenade, and granite terraces climbing steeply off Market Jew Street.
This is the far-west base for the whole Land’s End peninsula — Newlyn, Mousehole, St Just and the villages beyond. It’s also the mainland end of the Isles of Scilly connection: the Scillonian ferry from the harbour and the helicopter from the heliport, so we handle moves that are only really starting when they reach the quay.
Access: The old town’s lanes are steep and narrow, and Mousehole in particular can defeat a full-size lorry — we’ll shuttle in with a smaller van where we have to.
TR11
Falmouth — the deep harbour
Falmouth sits on one of the deepest natural harbours in the world, and the town lives off the water — the docks, the Pendennis superyacht yards, the maritime trade, and a large student population at the university up at Penryn.
That mix makes for a busy, varied run of moves: waterfront houses and apartments, student lets turning over around term, and the businesses along the high street and the marina. The streets drop steeply to the front, and the older terraces off the town centre are tight.
Access: Steep streets to the waterfront and restricted parking in the centre. Student moves cluster at term boundaries — we plan around the crush.
TR14–TR16
Camborne & Redruth — the mining heart
Camborne and Redruth grew together as the engine room of Cornish mining, and the landscape still carries it — the engine houses and chimney stacks of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site standing over the towns at Pool, Carn Brea and beyond.
The housing is largely tight terraced rows built for the miners, plus post-war and newer estates around Pool and Illogan. It’s the county’s densest run of towns, strung along the A30, which makes it some of our most efficient ground to cover — and a lot of the county’s everyday home moves happen here.
Access: Narrow terraced streets with on-street parking are the norm. Straightforward once we’ve planned where the lorry can sit and how far we’re carrying.
TR26
St Ives — where access is the whole job
St Ives is the picture everyone knows — whitewashed cottages stacked above the harbour, the Tate out on Porthmeor, the light that brought the artists. It’s also, from a removals point of view, one of the hardest places in Cornwall to move into or out of.
The lanes in the old town are steep, narrow and often stepped, the parking is fierce, and in summer the crowds fill every street. Here, distance is nothing and access is everything. We’ve learned the town: which corners a lorry can take, where to park, when to work, and when to bring a smaller van and carry.
Access: Genuinely hard. Expect a smaller van, a longer carry, and careful timing around the tourist crowds and parking restrictions — all worked out at the survey.
PL30–PL31
Bodmin — the gateway and the moor
Bodmin is the old county town, sitting where the A30 and A38 divide — one road carrying on west across the moor, the other dropping south for Plymouth and the M5. That makes it a natural staging point: as much a place moves pass through as one we move people to and from.
The town and its surrounding villages spill onto the edge of Bodmin Moor, so alongside ordinary town moves there are farmhouses and remote properties down long tracks. It’s PL30 and PL31, and it’s often the first or last Cornish stop on an up-country run.
Access: Town moves are straightforward; moorland properties can mean long, rough tracks and gateways built for a tractor, not a Luton. We check before we commit a big lorry.
The whole county
Beyond the hub towns
We cover the places between the towns too — Helston and the Lizard down south, Hayle and the far-west villages, Wadebridge and Padstow on the north coast, Bude and the Devon border, Liskeard and the south-east, and the parishes across Bodmin Moor. If you’re moving within Cornwall, out of it, or into it from up-country, the run is one we know.
Cornwall moves
Moving across the county
Which Cornwall towns do you cover?
All of them — Truro, Newquay, St Austell, Penzance, Falmouth, Camborne, Redruth, St Ives, Bodmin, Helston, Bude and the villages between, across the TR, PL and EX postcodes in Cornwall.
Can a removals lorry reach my Cornish cottage?
Sometimes not — and it’s much better to know that before the day. Steep, stepped or hedged lanes in places like St Ives and Mousehole can stop a full-size lorry, so we survey the access and shuttle in with a smaller van where we need to.
Do you move within Cornwall as well as out of the county?
Both. Plenty of our work is moves from one Cornish town to another, alongside people leaving for up-country and people arriving from the rest of the UK. One team handles the whole run either way.
Do you cover the far west and the Lizard?
Yes — Penzance, Newlyn, St Just, Land’s End, Helston and the Lizard peninsula are all part of our patch, as is the run out to the Isles of Scilly connections at Penzance harbour and the heliport.
Get a quote
Wherever you are in Cornwall.
Tell us the two addresses and roughly what you’re moving. We’ll come back with a clear, no-obligation quote — and if the access looks tricky, we’ll say so and plan for it.