Chauffeur Services in Burgess Hill

A short piece of dual carriageway, the A2300, links Burgess Hill to the A23, and that is why Gatwick feels so near. Its roundabout at the A23 loads through the peaks, then loads again whenever trouble on the motorway pushes traffic down through Bolney. Southbound towards Brighton, the A23 grows heavy on summer weekends. Over the Downs the A273 and B2036 through Hassocks and Clayton make the prettier journey, but they are slow and narrow, and best left alone when a flight is in play.

North of the town, the South of England show at Ardingly and the antiques fairs held on the same ground fill the lanes for whole days together, with single track approaches in places. Ditchling Beacon and the Jack and Jill windmills pull walkers and cyclists onto a steep, narrow road that we would sooner not take a large car up on a Sunday. Weddings at the Sussex barns and country houses nearby get the final stretch driven in advance wherever the entrance is unlit.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.