Chauffeur Services in Hexham

Laid along the line of the wall in the eighteenth century, the B6318 still drives like it: long straights, blind summits, next to no lighting anywhere. In daylight it counts among the great English roads. Put ice on the tops and a low February sun behind it and the same road becomes something to respect, which is why we will sometimes take the A69 instead and come up to a site from the south. Sheep standing in the road are no rare event out here.

Hexham's own station sits on the Tyne Valley line, handy for Newcastle and for Carlisle but no use at all for London, so guests going south normally pick up the East Coast route at Newcastle. Driving it puts the capital somewhere between five and six and a quarter hours away, and the final two hours of a late return run on roads that repay a fresh driver. We would sooner talk about an overnight from the start than a heroic day that ends badly.

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.