Winchmore Hill still has its village green, with the King's Head pub on one side and weatherboarded cottages on the other, and the streets around it climb past Victorian villas and inter-war houses towards Grovelands Park. It's a quiet, well-kept suburb with good schools and a strong tradition of club sport, from cricket on summer Saturdays to hockey and football through the winter. Minibus hire Winchmore Hill customers book is mostly school runs and trips, sports clubs and fixtures, family events and airport runs.
Winchmore Hill sits in the south-west of Enfield borough, between Southgate, Palmers Green, Bush Hill Park and Enfield Town, with Green Lanes and Hedge Lane running through it. From our base in SE1, it's about fifty-five minutes to an hour and five minutes outside the rush hour, up through Wood Green and Palmers Green.
Minibus hire Winchmore Hill for school runs
Winchmore Hill and the streets around it have several primary schools, Winchmore School, Palmers Green High School and prep schools such as Keble, and they book us for regular runs as well as trips. Palmers Green High School, in Winchmore Hill despite its name, is a girls' school with its own fixtures programme. Weekly swimming lessons, sports fixtures, transfers between school sites and runs for pupils who travel to specialist schools all suit a minibus.
A regular run keeps the same stops, times and seats every week of the term, and changes can be made when timetables shift. For school trips, the South Kensington museums are about an hour away outside the rush hour, and Trent Park about fifteen minutes.
Cricket, hockey and the sports clubs
Winchmore Hill Cricket Club, one of the strongest club sides in Middlesex, plays at the Paulin Ground, and the area's hockey, football, rugby and tennis clubs have busy junior and adult sections. Clubs book us for away fixtures, cup finals, tournaments and tours. Winchmore Hill Sports Club on Firs Lane hosts cricket, hockey, tennis and more on one site, and its tournaments draw teams from across the region.
A team and its kit, including bulky cricket bags, keeper's pads and hockey sticks, fit in one vehicle, and the driver waits for the result. For a junior section with several age groups playing on the same Sunday morning, we'll stagger the runs. Minibus hire Winchmore Hill clubs book for an end-of-season tour can include a weekend away, with the driver's hours planned around the fixtures.
Grovelands Park and family outings
Grovelands Park, laid out by Humphry Repton around a Regency mansion, has a large lake, woodland, a playground and a café, and it suits a nursery outing, a school nature trip or a family picnic. Its boardwalks and woodland paths make a good nature trail for younger pupils. Firs Farm Wetlands, a short drive east, has new ponds and reedbeds created to clean the local brook, and it makes a good science trip for pupils studying rivers and wildlife.
Families book us for birthday outings, christenings and anniversary meals, with guests collected from homes across Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Grange Park. Grange Park, a short drive north, has quieter streets and its own station.
The village green and evenings out
The green and Station Road have independent restaurants, cafés and old pubs, including the King's Head and the Dog and Duck, and they suit a birthday dinner or a family celebration. Green Lanes, running south towards Palmers Green, has more restaurants, many of them Greek and Cypriot.
For an evening out, the driver collects from homes, drops at the restaurant and returns at the agreed time. The streets around the green are narrow, so the driver will use a nearby road where the vehicle can wait.
Airport runs from Winchmore Hill
Stansted is about forty-five minutes from Winchmore Hill outside the rush hour, via the A10 and the M25 and M11. Luton is about forty-five minutes, Heathrow about an hour and Gatwick an hour and a quarter or more. Families flying out, students heading back to university and relatives arriving book us for the run, and for flights home the driver will be at arrivals as the group comes through. For early summer flights, the A10 is clear before six and the run to Stansted is quick.
Station Road and the hills
Winchmore Hill's roads climb and dip, with Wades Hill, Church Hill and Vicars Moor Lane all steep and narrow in places, and parked cars on both sides. Station Road and Green Lanes are busy at school times, and the junction by the green is tight for a larger vehicle, especially with cars parked outside the shops. Pickups happen on wider roads near the school or the club, and for home pickups we'll check the approach in advance.
For minibus hire in Winchmore Hill, call 020 7183 0567.