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How to Find Your Removal Company in Preston

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Tell us about your move

Enter your move details so we can match you with the right local removal companies in Preston for you.

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Smartphone showing Compare My Move removal company match results.

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Compare & choose your removal company

Choose the moving company that's right for you based on price, services and reviews.

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Removal worker lifting a sofa.

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Let your Preston movers handle the heavy lifting

Your chosen company handles the transport, and unloading, saving you time and effort.

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Smiling couple relaxing on a sofa after moving home.

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Settle into your new home

Relax knowing your belongings have been moved safely by trusted professionals.

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Why Book Your Removals with Compare My Move?

Top picks in Preston

Top picks in Preston

We connect you with the right movers for your needs, not just the nearest.

Reviewed and reliable

Reviewed and reliable

Easily connect with top-rated, fully verified professionals right at your fingertips.

Last minute? No problem

Last minute? No problem

If you need a quick turnaround, we’ll find firms that can meet your timeframe.

Local expertise

Local expertise

Our removal companies know the city’s unique moving challenges inside out.

What's Involved in a Removal Service?

Archive Icon Packing & preparation
Archive Icon Packing & preparation
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  • Optional professional packing service
  • Supply of boxes, wrapping, and tape
  • Dismantling of furniture if needed
  • Labelling of boxes for easy unpacking
  • Access planning and parking permit advice where required
Calendar icon On moving day
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Calendar icon On moving day
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  • Floor, doorway and bannister protection
  • Careful loading of boxes into the van
  • Protective covers for fragile items
  • Specialist handling for special items, like pianos or antiques
Truck icon Transport
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Transport
Two movers carrying boxes from a van outside a modern building.
  • Safe delivery to your new home
  • Goods-in-transit and public liability insurance
  • Short-term or long-term storage available if needed
  • GPS-tracked vehicles for added security
Unarchive icon Unloading
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Unloading
Smiling mover unloading cardboard boxes from a removals van.
  • Unloading into the rooms of your choice
  • Reassembly of furniture and large items
  • Removal of packing materials
  • Final placement checks

Areas We Cover in Preston

  • Fulwood
  • Ashton-on-Ribble
  • Nooklands
  • Sharoe Green
  • Cadley
  • Moor Park
  • Larches
  • Woodplumpton
  • Ingol
  • Broughton
  • Fishwick
  • Penwortham
  • Brookfield
  • Clifton
  • Plungington
  • Ribbleton
  • Kingsfold
  • Longsands
  • Whitestake
  • Plungington

Why Customers In Preston Trust Us To Move Home

Recent reviews from people who moved home in Preston
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Based on 97 customer reviews of our Preston removals companies.

Join Preston Customers Already Booking Their Move

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1 extra service requested

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J West J
1 extra service requested

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Peter M
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Christopher T
3 extra services requested

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Lara F
1 extra service requested

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Francis C
2 extra services requested

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Thomas S
Only removals requested

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Katie S
Only removals requested

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1 extra service requested

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3 extra services requested

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Preston's Best Moving Companies

Proven and reliable

Proven and reliable

Our companies have experience completing hundreds of Preston home moves.

Highly-rated by customers

Highly-rated by customers

We collect feedback after moves, run regular mystery shops, and remove movers that don't maintain top ratings.

Verified & insured

Verified & insured

Every firm is verified for trading history and reviews, and must carry Goods in Transit and Public Liability insurance.

Preston specialists

Preston specialists

Our removal companies know the city’s unique moving challenges inside out.

6,179
Removal jobs completed in Preston

Our Preston Moving Trends

December most popular month
Blackburn most popular destination
1,977 last minute moves
Packing top add on

Types of Home

Items We Move Most

20,391 plants moved
17,301 beds moved
9,269 sofas moved
10,504 TVs moved

How We Keep Things Safe

2,904 pre-move surveys
74,148 boxes packed
384 miles of packing tape
11,740 KG of bubble wrap

Things to Know Before Your Preston Move

Fishergate bus lane runs 11am to 6pm and Corporation Street gate catches everyone

Fishergate's bus lane operates 11am to 6pm with cameras live since September 2025. The Corporation Street bus gate has issued £2.68m in fines in 12 months because it looks like a normal street. Drive through either and you're hit with a PCN before you've reached your door. Book a morning start so your van arrives before 11am, and send your movers a pinned route that avoids Corporation Street completely. If you must cross town after 11am, tell them to loop via Ringway instead.

Friargate North only opens 6am to 11am, then access shuts

The early window runs 6am to 11am with one-way operation towards campus. After that, you're walking kit in from outside. If your flat sits off Friargate or Cheapside, agree an early slot, move the heavy pieces first, and keep a small top-up list for later. Miss the window and you'll park on the Ringway side and carry items in on foot.

Tell your movers to use Hill Street car park for tall vans

Preston Bus Station MSCP caps at around 2m, which rules out most removal vans. Hill Street is a surface car park with no height restriction. Share the exact entrance with our removal companies when you book so they don't waste time looping Ringway trying to find a multi-storey that fits.

Avoid Deepdale on match days or you'll sit in traffic for an hour

On Preston North End home matches, streets near Sir Tom Finney Way clog before kick-off and at full time. The Caribbean Carnival closes Moor Park Avenue from 9:30am to 7pm every late-May Sunday and sends a parade loop through Deepdale. If your address sits in Deepdale, Moor Park or the Uni quarter, check the fixture list and either move on a different day or start at first light and approach from the quiet side.

UCLan graduations and open days fill the campus quarter

Winter graduations run 9–11 December 2025 and swell the UCLan area, tightening kerb space and jamming approaches near Corporation Street. If your move overlaps, book early in the day and set a precise meet point away from the bus gate. A dropped pin and a building photo help our movers pick the legal approach on the first try without circling.

Sort visitor permits in advance if family are following in cars

Many inner-Preston streets are in permit zones run by Lancashire County Council. If family are following, sort digital visitor permits beforehand. Where kerb space is tight, ask about reserving a bay or applying for a dispensation with two working days' notice. It's cheaper than a £70 PCN and prevents last-minute laps hunting for space.