Mobile tyre fitting
in Cumnor Hill.

A fitter at your car
in Cumnor Hill.

Up here the tyre trouble is found rather than suffered. A car that has sat on a drive overnight is down on one corner in the morning, or a sidewall picked something up on the B4017 through Cumnor and has been losing air ever since. Because there is nowhere public to pull into, the sensible thing is simply not to move it. Give the OX2 postcode, the size from the sidewall and whether the drive is level, and the tyre comes up the hill to you.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Drives are the working surface up here, and most houses on the hill have one long enough to take a car clear of the road. A garage apron or a turning circle inside a gate is just as good. Where a property opens straight onto the B4017, the fitter looks for the flattest spot off the running lane and works with the van shielding the job. West Way Shopping Centre and Seacourt Retail Park sit over at Botley, but those bays belong to the shops, so they are not a meeting point we can promise.

Calls come off Cumnor Hill itself and from the pockets around it: Chawley next door, Cumnor village and its High Street, Dean Court and Botley towards the city, and the scattered hamlets at Henwood, Filchampstead, Eaton and Besselsleigh where the lanes get narrow. Glebe Road, Oxford Road and Tumbledown Hill are the ways in and out, all of them B4017. The facts of working here are simple. There is no public car park, no station and no parade of shops with bays behind it, so a drive or a private frontage does the job every time. A sloping drive is the one thing to mention when you ring, because a jack needs level ground and we would rather bring boards than find out on arrival.