Round here
Harpenden first, then as far as the van sensibly goes
We're a Harpenden outfit and we always will be — no depots anywhere else, no branches, just the van and the ground we know. AL5 is where the day starts and where it usually finishes.
From there we work out along the M1 towns, up through Bedfordshire and across to Milton Keynes. That's 58 districts and 748 named places — some of them five minutes away, some of them a proper drive. Pick the one your car is standing in and we'll tell you what we get called out for there.
The twenty towns we name first
If someone asks how far we go, this is the short answer, home town first.
Harpenden and St Albans
Home ground. The streets we can be on quickest, and the villages either side of them.
AL5
Home. The streets we know without looking anything up.
9 places
AL1
City streets, two station car parks and a lot of very tight terraced parking.
10 places
AL2
Motorway-edge villages where the morning run is fast and the lanes between them aren't.
11 places
AL3
The old Watling Street villages, plus the streets running down to Verulamium.
15 places
AL4
Village lanes, verge parking and estates that empty out at half eight in the morning.
12 places
Luton, Dunstable and the Downs
Terraced streets, the airport, an industrial edge and a chalk ridge behind the lot.
LU1
Terraced streets with no spare inch, and hill villages five minutes above them.
17 places
LU2
Airport ramps, estate roads, and a set of quiet lanes almost nobody expects.
20 places
LU3
North Luton estates, then chalk lanes the moment you leave them.
9 places
LU4
Matchday parking, hospital shifts, and estate roads that never get a rest.
7 places
LU5
New estates, old villages, and motorway services that throw debris at everyone.
10 places
LU6
A steep hill, chalk lanes and a town centre that grinds through tyres.
15 places
Hemel, Berkhamsted and Tring
The Gade and Bulbourne valleys, from town estates up to the reservoir lanes.
HP1
Half a busy town, half single-track lane. The tyres tell you which half you've been on.
13 places
HP2
Working vehicles, business park screws and hospital shift parking.
10 places
HP3
Canal-side streets one side, airfield hardstanding and steep lanes the other.
9 places
HP4
A proper run out for us, and worth doing properly when we get there.
10 places
HP23
Reservoir car parks, hedge-cutting season, and a station that isn't in the town.
22 places
WD4
A small district with a fast road through it and some very narrow lanes off it.
5 places
Hitchin, Stevenage and the north Herts lanes
Our nearest proper lane country, plus two busy towns and everything between them.
SG4
Our nearest proper lane country, and the lanes are where most of it happens.
17 places
SG5
A market town, a scarp full of steep lanes, and a lot of commuting.
16 places
SG1
Industrial estate roads, retail park kerbs and a hospital that never closes.
15 places
SG2
Town estates on one side, single-track farm country on the other.
9 places
SG3
Small district, big event traffic, and lanes that suffer for it.
5 places
SG6
Roundabouts, verges and grass margins where a kerb should be.
5 places
SG7
Fast dual carriageway, then flat lanes with nothing on them for miles.
11 places
SG8
Our far edge, and a real drive to get there.
34 places
Leighton Buzzard, Woburn and mid Bedfordshire
Sandy woodland, greensand hills and a long line of villages with one lane in and out.
LU7
Thirty-five villages, a canal, a beacon, and lanes that punish a tired tyre.
35 places
MK17
Estate walls, sandy woodland lanes and long straight village roads.
27 places
MK45
Greensand hills, a busy commuter station and lanes that carry the lot.
25 places
MK43
A big spread: university traffic, old clay country and river villages.
30 places
SG15
One small town, one very busy station car park.
2 places
SG16
Four places, a long straight road through them, and a lot of daily commuting.
4 places
SG17
A small market town with a lot of through traffic and quiet lanes behind it.
7 places
Biggleswade, Sandy and the road north
Market gardens, business parks and a trunk road running straight through.
Bedford and the Ouse villages
The town either side of the river, then thirty-odd villages beyond it.
MK40
Victorian streets with permit parking, plus a station full of London commuters.
9 places
MK41
North Bedford estates and the villages sitting just past them.
8 places
MK42
A hospital, a college, a retail park and an estate still being built.
11 places
MK44
Thirty-odd villages, a lot of farm traffic and very few streetlights.
31 places
MK46
A market town with a wide, cobbled-edged high street and quiet lanes round it.
9 places
Milton Keynes and Buckingham
Grid squares, business estates and the older towns and villages that were there first.
MK9
Multi-storeys, event nights and a station car park that swallows cars all day.
9 places
MK1
Warehouse yards, retail parking and a stadium that empties all at once.
5 places
MK2
Old terraces and canal bridges, right where the new city stops.
4 places
MK3
A big commuter station, an old town centre and a brand new estate.
7 places
MK4
Housing grid squares where nearly every job happens on a driveway.
8 places
MK5
Office parks by day, quiet estates by night, one set of grid roads between them.
9 places
MK6
Older estates, a big hospital and a retail stretch that never stops moving.
18 places
MK7
Lakeside parking, a university campus and a business estate full of sharp bits.
10 places
MK8
Established estates on one side, a new one still being built on the other.
8 places
MK10
Newer estates and a shopping centre with a very busy car park.
9 places
MK11
A proper old high street, a working estate and a new build behind both.
5 places
MK12
Railway terraces with no off-street parking, and an industrial estate next door.
7 places
MK13
Old village lanes, a canal, and a business estate all inside one grid square.
9 places
MK14
Family estates, a wooded business park and a lot of school-run mileage.
10 places
MK15
Lake parking, a theme park and two industrial estates on the same grid square.
13 places
MK16
Motorway services one side, single-track river villages the other.
16 places
MK19
River crossings, canal bridges and lanes that flood every winter.
13 places
MK18
The furthest west we go, and a big spread of small villages when we get there.
35 places
Not sure which one you're in? Ring us with the road name and the town and we'll say yes or no before anybody sets off.