Iver to Gatwick Taxi

Local Knowledge

Getting out of the Ivers and onto the M25 southbound

This is a trip where nearly everything depends on the M25, and the first job is joining it. The motorway wraps round the parish on three sides without giving Iver a slip road, so the journey starts on local tarmac: south on the B470 through Langley to Junction 5 of the M4, then east to Junction 4b, the Thorney Interchange, where the two motorways cross in the fields below Richings Park. M25 junction numbers climb clockwise from the Dartford Crossing, so Gatwick from here means counting down. You pass the Heathrow junction at 14, the M3 at 12 and the A3 at 10, and leave at 7 for the M23. From Iver Heath we sometimes go the other way instead, up the A412 to Denham, onto the M40 at its first junction and across to the M25 at 16, which puts you on the same carriageway a little earlier. If the M23 is shut, the A23 London to Brighton road runs alongside it all the way down.

The one-change rail option from Iver

Iver has something most of our villages lack: a station on the Elizabeth line. Trains run through to Farringdon, where Thameslink services go direct to Gatwick, so it is a single change. For a solo traveller with a cabin bag that is a reasonable alternative. With children and hold luggage it still means stairs and platforms at Farringdon and a busy train through central London, which is where a car from the door earns its fare.

Timing an early Gatwick departure from SL0

At around 60 to 90 minutes, when you leave matters more than which way you go. For a 7.15am short-haul flight you want to be at the terminal around 5.15am, so with the full 90 minutes and a little in reserve we would collect at about 3.30am. Most of the people in the car are travelling for pleasure: Gatwick is where the Ivers go on holiday, usually with more luggage than a business trip and often with children who would rather still be asleep.

At the airport

The M23 spur ends at a roundabout beside the South Terminal, and Airport Way carries on to the North Terminal, so each is signposted by name before you reach it. A mix-up costs you the two-minute free shuttle between them rather than a detour. Both drop-off forecourts charge £10 for the first 10 minutes and £1 a minute after that, with a maximum of 30 minutes, paid online by midnight the next day. Our fixed-price Iver fares already include it, so a slow hour on the motorway costs you time and not money.

Crew and visitors at Pinewood heading for a Gatwick flight can be collected from the studios too; see Pinewood Studios transfers. And if the flight goes from somewhere else next time, we run the same way to all five London airports from Iver.