Getting Around Biggin Hill
Biggin Hill is a village high on the North Downs along the A233, in the London Borough of Bromley at the southern edge of Greater London. In the Battle of Britain RAF Biggin Hill was one of the fighter stations that defended London, and the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum now stands beside St George's RAF Chapel of Remembrance. The old airfield is today London Biggin Hill Airport, used by private jets and helicopters.
There is no railway station in the village. If your address is on a rural lane, add the house name. Send the full address with your booking; the confirmation then tells you where the car will stop.
Chartwell, Winston Churchill's family home near Westerham, now run by the National Trust, is about 7 miles from the village, 20–30 minutes. A day with the museum in the morning, lunch in Westerham and an afternoon at Chartwell fits one booking by the hour: one chauffeur and one vehicle stay with you for the time you reserve.
Airport Transfers in Biggin Hill
London Biggin Hill Airport does not handle scheduled or other fare-paying passenger flights, so airline travellers from the village use one of the London airports. Gatwick is the nearest: 25 miles, 55 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes. London City Airport is 18 miles, 1 hour to 1 hour 25 minutes, Southend Airport 42 miles, 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 50 minutes, Heathrow 47 miles, 1 hour 25 minutes to 2 hours, and Stansted Airport 54 miles, 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes. Gatwick, with its North and South terminals, counted 42.8 million passengers last year. The right one depends on your airline and route.
Book with your flight number. For an arrival, your chauffeur checks the flight status and times the pick-up to when you actually land, and your booking confirmation shows where to meet the chauffeur. For a departure from Biggin Hill, what counts is the length of the drive, not the time on the clock: the first miles run on the A233 and local lanes before the motorway, and the M25 then carries you to Gatwick, Heathrow or Stansted. Journey times vary with traffic and weather. You set the pick-up time yourself, and the confirmation shows it.
Long-Distance & Day-Trip Travel from Biggin Hill
South of the village the Downs drop into Surrey and Kent. Oxted, at the foot of the hills, is 7 miles, 30–40 minutes. Tunbridge Wells, with the Pantiles, is 28 miles, 55 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes.
Eastbourne, on the Sussex coast, is 50 miles, 1 hour 35 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes, and Canterbury, with its cathedral, 57 miles, 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes. The Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone, in Northamptonshire, is 107 miles away, 2 hours 25 minutes to 3 hours 10 minutes, a long day best started from your own door.
For a race day at Silverstone or a day on the coast with the drive home at night, an hourly reservation keeps the same chauffeur on call all day. For a single journey, you are dropped at your chosen address, and the journey back needs a reservation of its own.
Groups & Event Travel in Biggin Hill
The Memorial Museum tells the story of the airfield and the people who served there. For a history society, a veterans' association or a school class, it makes a focused day out. For a society outing of twelve, a Sprinter van carries up to 12 people with their bags, and bigger groups go by coach, with up to 56 seats; with walking aids or wheelchairs on board, say so in the booking, and the vehicle is matched to the load.
When you book for other people, all their transfers can be kept in one account, each with its own booking and confirmation. If members travel from abroad for a commemoration on several flights, every arrival gets a transfer of its own, from Gatwick or another London airport.
Local vehicles and drivers are booked up early around Remembrance weekend and the anniversary of the Battle of Britain in September. If your plans go beyond a standard booking, write to support with the dates, addresses, number of passengers, flights and luggage, and the team will arrange it.
