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King Taxi & Private Hire
About the business

A licensed New Forest private hire operator.

King Taxi & Private Hire is a private hire operator licensed by New Forest District Council, under operator licence 225. We are based at 1 Sutton Place, Brockenhurst, SO42 7TX, and we run pre-booked airport transfers, Southampton cruise terminal transfers and local journeys across the whole of the New Forest.

Based in Brockenhurst, covering the New Forest

1 Sutton Place, Brockenhurst. We collect from every village in the forest, not just the base.

Licensed private hire operator

Licence 225, held by King Transfer, issued by New Forest District Council.

DBS checked drivers

Drivers are licensed by the council and enhanced DBS checked as a condition of that licence.

Fully insured

Private hire insurance is held on the vehicles we operate.

11+ active vehicles

Saloons, estates and six seaters, so a group booking does not usually depend on one car being free.

The verifiable bits

Anyone can call themselves a taxi firm. These are the details you can check us against — look the licence up on the New Forest District Council operator register. Checked 3 August 2026.

Registered address1 Sutton Place, Brockenhurst, SO42 7TX
Private hire operator licence225, held by King Transfer
Licensing authorityNew Forest District Council
Active vehicles11+ saloons, estates and six seaters
DriversLicensed and enhanced DBS checked
InsurancePrivate hire insurance on every vehicle

Based here, not dispatched here

Brockenhurst is where the business sits, but the work covers the forest — Lymington, Lyndhurst, Beaulieu, Sway, New Milton and the villages between them.

11+ vehicles

Enough cars that an early Heathrow run and a school-holiday group booking do not compete for the same vehicle.

Quote before booking

Nothing is confirmed until you have a written price and have accepted it. There is no meter and no surge.

Not a booking platform

Journeys are planned by people who drive these roads, rather than allocated by an app to whoever happens to be nearest.

What we actually do

The bulk of the work is airport transfers: Southampton and Bournemouth on the doorstep, Heathrow and Gatwick as the long-distance staples, Luton and Stansted when a specific flight only goes from there. A large share of it leaves before 05:00, because that is what a morning departure requires from this part of Hampshire.

Alongside that, we run transfers to all five Southampton cruise terminals, station pickups at Brockenhurst, and local journeys around the villages — appointments, shopping, the things that matter when a bus route does not go where you need it to.

Why everything is pre-booked

We are a private hire operator, not a hackney carriage firm. That is a legal distinction as much as a practical one: private hire journeys must be booked through the operator in advance, and cannot be hailed or picked up from a rank.

It also happens to suit the work. Rural New Forest addresses need planning — property names rather than postcodes, gates, cattle grids, unmarked lanes — and an airport run that has been thought about the week before is a different thing from one dispatched twenty minutes ahead.

Where we cover

Brockenhurst, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Beaulieu, Sway, Boldre, Milford on Sea, New Milton, Rhinefield, Burley, Ashurst, Southampton Cruise Terminal — plus rural addresses, holiday cottages, hotels and wedding venues throughout the forest.

If you are not sure whether your address is in range, send it anyway. The answer is usually yes, and where it is not we will say so straight away rather than quoting something we cannot service properly.

Questions before you book?

Call the booking line, message on WhatsApp or send the journey details and we will come back with a written price.