Removals in Dial Post (RH13), West Sussex

A Local, Family-Run Removal Company Covering Dial Post

Wolves Removals is a family-run West Sussex moving company, LAPADA-accredited and fully insured. Dial Post — the small A24 village in the RH13 postcodes, part of the West Grinstead parish and best known as the home of the Knepp rewilding estate — is one of the closest jobs on our books, only a few miles up the road from our Ashington base. We keep no branch or yard in the village, just our own crew and lorry a short run away. Because so much of Dial Post and the country around it sits down rural lanes and long estate drives, we plan each move around the property and how a lorry actually reaches it, rather than the postcode alone.

Our comprehensive range of services includes:

• Full house and furniture removals across Dial Post and the RH13 area, from the listed village cottages to the farmhouses in the estate country around Knepp.
• Careful packing and unpacking, as much or as little of the house as you want done for you.
• LAPADA-accredited fine-art and specialist-item handling for the antiques and fine furniture common in the area’s period and estate-country homes.
• Piano and heavy-item removal, planned around the low doorways and narrow stairs of the older village homes.
• Smaller moves for a single flat, a part-load or a downsizing move — the same insured crew, scaled down.
• Short and long-term secure storage while a chain settles or a Dial Post completion date moves.

About Dial Post

Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, on the old line of the A24 between Southwater and Ashington — the modern road now runs just to the east of the old village. It is not a parish in its own right but part of the wider civil parish of West Grinstead, which also takes in West Grinstead village, Littleworth and Partridge Green; Dial Post itself is a small place, a scatter of homes rather than a town. Most of what we do here is house removals.

What puts Dial Post on the map, though, is its neighbour: the Knepp estate, one of Britain’s best-known rewilding projects, whose safari base sits right at the village off Swallows Lane. It is a working, ticketed rewilding project rather than a park you can wander into, but it is the reason a lot of people first hear the name — not least because in 2020 the first white storks to breed in the wild in Britain since 1416 hatched there.

Local knowledge still counts on a move here, quietly but genuinely: Dial Post is small, and a fair few of its homes and the farms around it sit down single rural lanes and long estate drives off the A24, where a full-size lorry cannot always get to the door. We settle the access, the vehicle and the route at the survey, so a country property is planned for rather than discovered on the morning — and being only a few miles up the road, that survey is easy to arrange.

What a House Move in Dial Post Costs

The thing that most often shapes the price of a Dial Post move is not the mileage — we are only up the road — but the access. A cottage tucked down a single-track lane or a house at the end of a long estate drive takes more planning, and sometimes a smaller van to shuttle from where the lorry can wait, than a place you can pull straight up to. On top of that sit the usual things: the size of the home, how much packing you would like us to handle, and anything — a piano, a piece of good furniture — that needs specialist care. We put a fixed figure in writing after a survey rather than guess at one; for a rough idea first, our removals cost calculator works from the number of bedrooms.

Period and Country Homes Around Dial Post

For such a small village, Dial Post has a good share of the kind of home that rewards a careful mover. There are the older listed cottages in the village itself — New Lodge, Hazel Cottage, Alma Cottage and Dial Post House among them — and, out in the farm country around Knepp, farmhouses and larger period houses down their own lanes. These are the homes that tend to hold the things worth handling properly: heavy old furniture, framed pictures, a clock or a piano, the odd genuinely valuable piece. Our LAPADA-accredited handling is built for exactly that, and the low ceilings, narrow stairs and awkward thresholds of an old cottage are something we plan for at the survey, well before a sofa is halfway up them.

Moving to Dial Post

People who move to Dial Post are usually after quiet, working countryside with quick roads out of it — the A24 north to Horsham and Crawley or south to the coast — and, increasingly, the pull of living next to Knepp. The Knepp estate has been rewilding some 3,500 acres of old farmland since 2001, and it now draws visitors from all over for its booked wildlife safaris; free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer graze the land, and the white storks that first bred here in 2020 were the first to nest in the wild in Britain in more than six hundred years. The estate is the Burrell family’s, and its castellated country house — designed by the Regency architect John Nash — stands privately among the parkland, a separate thing from the old medieval castle ruins that sit beside the A24 towards Southwater.

The village itself gathers around The Crown Inn, on the record here since the 1870s, with a handful of listed cottages and the old coaching-road name it is said to owe to a sundial and the changing of post-horses. Its church life belongs to the wider parish — St George’s at West Grinstead — rather than to a church of its own. Dial Post falls within the coverage we run from our nearby Ashington base, close to Southwater up the A24, Shipley to the west and Partridge Green a couple of miles east. Between completions, our secure storage holds the whole move until the new place is ready, and any antiques or fine pieces travel under our LAPADA accreditation.

Preparing for Your Dial Post Move

A little planning at the survey is what makes the day run itself. The one thing really worth flagging early around Dial Post is access — a long or unmade drive, a narrow lane, a tight turn into a farm entrance — so we bring a vehicle that fits rather than one that has to stop short. Beds, wardrobes and flat-pack units are taken apart and rebuilt by the crew on the day, so there is nothing for you to dismantle first.

How much of the packing we take on is up to you, from the whole house down to just the breakables, through our full packing service; and if the dates leave a gap between selling and buying, secure storage bridges it. A single room or a small flat can go on the lighter smaller-moves service instead. And if a completion date is looking uncertain, say so early — it is far easier to plan around a moving date that may still shift than to redo everything at the last minute.