Chauffeur Services in Petersfield

Above the town the A3 dives into the Hindhead tunnel, which transformed the run towards the M25 but gathers every delay at its portals. Close the tunnel and the diversion by Grayshott and Churt is slow and narrow, so we would far sooner leave early than gamble on getting through. Going the other way, the pinch comes at Horndean where traffic merges onto the A3(M), building from about half past seven in the morning and once more from four in the afternoon.

On market days the Square and its surrounding streets fill up, while the Heath hosts the summer fair and the food festival, each bringing temporary closures with it. Lanes into the National Park are busiest on a fine Sunday morning, when walkers leave cars on the verges near Butser and Old Winchester Hill. Before a morning flight from Heathrow or Gatwick, our general suggestion is to leave Petersfield about three and a half hours ahead of departure.

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.