Specialist on one corridor
We move households between the UK and France every week. The customs paperwork, the ferry-vs-tunnel routing, the French regional access — all are routine for us, not occasional.
UK→France removals · Route specialists
From your UK doorstep
From your UK doorstep
to your French address
Door-to-door removals from anywhere in the UK to anywhere in France — paperwork, customs, ferry routing, and French registration timelines, all handled by a team that does this route every week.
- BAR Overseas Group member
- Customs licensed
- All-risks insured
A route-specialist firm working with
BAR Overseas Group HMRC EORI registered Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Brittany Ferries French douanes filed
Why a route specialist
One route, deeply known
One route, deeply known
— not fifty routes done badly
Paperwork sorted, both ends
EORI, ToR1, French douanes declaration, bilingual customs inventory — all filed by us on your behalf. You handle your carte de séjour with the prefecture; we handle everything that gets your goods to it.
Every French region
Paris, Provence, Côte d'Azur, Brittany, Normandy, Aquitaine, Loire, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse — destination teams in place across France with local-context knowledge.
Routes from the UK
From every UK origin
From every UK origin
— to every French region
We run weekly from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, and Liverpool — covering every UK postcode catchment around those origin hubs.
London
London → France
View route Manchester
Manchester → France
View route Birmingham
Birmingham → France
View route Edinburgh
Edinburgh → France
View route Glasgow
Glasgow → France
View route Bristol
Bristol → France
View route Leeds
Leeds → France
View route Liverpool
Liverpool → France
View route French destinations
Every French region
Every French region
— with local knowledge
Paris and the Île-de-France, Provence, the Côte d'Azur, Brittany, Normandy, Bordeaux & Aquitaine, the Loire Valley, Lyon & the Alps. Each region has its own destination team, paperwork specifics, and access protocols.
Paris / Île-de-France
UK → Paris
View region Provence
UK → Provence
View region Côte d'Azur
UK → Côte d'Azur
View region Brittany
UK → Brittany
View region Normandy
UK → Normandy
View region Bordeaux / Aquitaine
UK → Bordeaux
View region Loire Valley
UK → Loire Valley
View region Lyon / Rhône-Alpes
UK → Lyon
View region Services
Full-house, partial, single-item
Full-house, partial, single-item
— and the specialist add-ons
Door-to-door, end-to-end
Full house removals UK to France
Complete household removal from any UK address to anywhere in France. Survey, packing, customs paperwork, transit, delivery, and unpacking on request — all on one written quote.
Shared route, full servicePartial load UK to France
Partial-load and shared-route moves for households with less than full-truck volume. Same standards on customs, insurance, and destination handling — at lower cost via consolidated routing.
One-piece, fully insuredSingle-item shipping UK to France
Single-item shipping for art, instruments, vehicles, machinery, and individual heirloom or specialist pieces. Custom crating, climate control, and customs paperwork.
Full-pack or partial-packPacking service UK to France
Professional packing service ahead of the move — full-pack the day before collection, custom crating for fragile pieces, bilingual labelling for the destination team.
Indoor depots, flexible durationStorage UK side and France side
Indoor storage at our UK depots and at French destination partner depots. Climate-controlled options available. Charged separately, flexible duration.
Cars, motorbikes, vintageVehicle relocation UK to France
Vehicle relocation as part of a household move or as a standalone service. UK-to-France vehicle import paperwork (immatriculation, contrôle technique alignment) coordinated.
Cornerstone guide The complete guide to moving from the UK to France
The complete guide to moving from the UK to France
— the complete handbook
Everything from carte de séjour to customs clearance — the route specialist's handbook for British movers
Read the guideIn this guide:
- 01 Before you move
- 02 Paperwork overview
- 03 Route and timing
- 04 Cost considerations
- 05 The French property market
- 06 French residency
- …and 3 more
Guides hub
More long-form guides
More long-form guides
on UK→France moves
paperwork · 8 minute read
Carte de séjour for British movers
Post-Brexit residency permit applications — what UK citizens need to know
paperwork · 7 minute readBrexit and UK-France moves
What changed and what it means for your move
paperwork · 6 minute readCustoms declarations UK to France
EORI, ToR1, douanes — the customs paperwork explained
10+
Years on the route
UK→France specialists since 2014
52
Weeks per year
Weekly schedule, year-round
10
French regions
Local destination teams
BAR
Overseas Group
Member, deposit-protected
Households we've moved
Customer notes
Customer notes
— in their own words
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We had heard horror stories about UK-France moves post-Brexit. None of them happened to us. Survey on a Tuesday, written quote on the Friday, lorry loaded ten days later, goods in our Dordogne house the following Monday. Customs cleared without a hitch. Sorted.
The Whitfield family
Clifton, Bristol → Sarlat, Dordogne
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The Edinburgh-to-Brittany route was the part we worried about most — long ground leg, tenement-stair work, then a ferry. The crew handled the close access without fuss. The Saint-Malo ferry crossing was overnight, smooth, and the team was waiting at the Brittany end exactly when promised. Couldn't have asked for better.
Margaret & David Thornton
Edinburgh New Town → Vannes, Brittany
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We had a complicated move — listed-building access in Hampstead, then a Lubéron stone house at the end of an unsealed lane. Both ends needed careful planning. The team measured everything at survey, planned the small-vehicle transfer for the lane, and the move ran on schedule. The bilingual coordinator briefed our gardien before move day. We barely had to think about it.
James & Beatrice Le Roux
Hampstead, London → Aix-en-Provence
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Corporate-relocation move from Manchester to Lyon. The team handled the HR-side paperwork, the customs side, and the timing around my work-permit validation in Lyon. Same crew loaded in Manchester and met me at the Lyon flat. Detailed inventory, careful packing, no breakage. Professional throughout.
Olivia Patel
Didsbury, Manchester → Lyon Confluence
Common questions
The questions we get
The questions we get
most often
More on the full FAQ; route-specific questions on each origin and destination page.
See all FAQs-
Yes — that is the entire point. We are a single-route specialist, not a generalist firm with a France brochure. We do this corridor every week and know it end-to-end.
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Most household goods owned more than 6 months qualify for the EU Transfer of Residence (ToR) relief and move duty-free. We file the ToR1 with HMRC and the douanes equivalent at the French frontier.
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Yes — all-risks goods-in-transit cover is included with every move, underwritten by a UK marine insurer. The certificate of insurance accompanies the written quote.
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Send us a brief through the quote form on this site, or call us. We arrange a survey of your UK property — in-person for full-house, video walk-through often suffices for smaller moves — and the written quote follows by email.
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Typically 3-7 days door-to-door depending on UK origin, French destination, route choice, and consolidation. The written quote includes the likely transit window for your specific move.
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Yes — pianos are routine. Specialist piano movers travel with the load; dedicated cradles, climate-monitored transit.
Ready when you are
Tell us where, when, and what.
Tell us where, when, and what.
The rest is sorted.
Send us a brief; we come back with a written quote covering door-to-door from your UK address to your French region.