Where the commuter line meets the country lanes — and where the nearest race circuit is closer than the nearest supermarket. Longfield, Hartley, New Ash Green and Fawkham, covered at fixed prices from £25, with Brands Hatch weekends a speciality.
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Longfield and its sister villages live a particular Kent life: London is forty minutes by rail, the lanes are lovely, and the practical transport map has exactly two strong squares on it — the station and your own drive. The buses are occasional. The station car park is a competitive sport that finishes around eight in the morning. And New Ash Green, that remarkable 1960s experiment in village-making among the trees, was designed for a world where everyone drove — which is precisely why its residents without a second car lean on us harder than almost anyone on our books.
So this is what we have become here: the third square on the map. The standing 07:10 to the station when the car park has already won. The teenager home from Bluewater. The Friday lift back from the village pubs along the lanes no one should walk in the dark. All at fixed prices agreed before the car moves, day rate and night rate identical because we only have one rate.
Local runs from £25 · Brands Hatch £25 · Gatwick £73 · Heathrow £92 · Stansted £92 · Luton £106 · London City £37 · Bluewater £25 · Ebbsfleet International £25 · Central London £48 · Longfield, Hartley, New Ash Green & Fawkham covered · Call 01474 554933 or rushxo.com
Brands Hatch sits at Fawkham, barely three miles from Longfield's crossroads — close enough that on a summer race Sunday you can hear the circuit from a Hartley garden. For us it is the best kind of local work. The A20 approach queues on big meetings; our drivers run the lanes instead, dropping at the circuit entrances while the main road sits still. Smarter still is the pickup: book a time for after the chequered flag, walk out past the car parks emptying at walking pace, and find your car waiting on the village side. Groups make it cheap — an 8-seater from Longfield split between friends costs less per head than the circuit's own parking, and nobody has to be the designated driver on a hospitality day.
Longfield village and Longfield Hill — the station spine, the academy run, the parade shops. Hartley — the long avenues where school standings and supermarket circuits fill our mornings. New Ash Green — the woodland village whose looping closes and courtyards defeat visiting satnavs; our drivers know which neighbourhood each close belongs to, which saves five baffled minutes per pickup. Fawkham and the lanes — wedding venues, the golf courses, and farm addresses where what3words beats house numbers. Out here, local knowledge is not a marketing line; it is the difference between a pickup and a search party.
DA3's quiet advantage is the M25: minutes away at Swanley, which turns the whole airport map friendly. Gatwick (33 miles, £73) is the star run — down the motorway before the kettle would have boiled. Heathrow (43 miles, £92) rounds the top with the Dartford question answered by live data before departure. Stansted (43 miles, £92) crosses the river and climbs the M11, with late landings met inside, name board up. Luton (52 miles, £106) is the long arc where a fixed price most embarrasses a meter. London City (17 miles, £37) nips up the A2 for the business crowd.
| Airport (from Longfield) | Saloon | Executive | MPV 6 | 8-Seater | 9-Seater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathrow (43 mi) | £92 | £118 | £122 | £144 | £151 |
| Gatwick (33 mi) | £73 | £92 | £96 | £125 | £132 |
| Stansted (43 mi) | £92 | £118 | £122 | £144 | £151 |
| Luton (52 mi) | £106 | £135 | £140 | £165 | £173 |
| London City (17 mi) | £37 | £48 | £49 | £65 | £68 |
Fares last reviewed June 2026. Fixed at booking, tolls included.
Returns are exactly double, booked together — car at the gate outbound, name board in arrivals inbound, flight tracked throughout.
| Journey | Saloon (fixed) | The DA3 detail |
|---|---|---|
| Home → Longfield station | £25 | The car-park-is-full insurance policy; trains tracked for the return |
| Longfield / Hartley → Brands Hatch | £25 | Back lanes past the A20 queue; post-flag pickups staged village-side |
| New Ash Green → Bluewater | £25 | Name your finishing entrance; bags in the boot, no surge ever |
| DA3 → Ebbsfleet International | £25 | St Pancras in 17 minutes once we have done our five |
| DA3 → Central London by road | £48 | For the days the family and luggage outvote the train |
The same promise runs across the map: Meopham along the ridge, Dartford down the valley, Greenhithe & Bluewater and Gravesend beyond — one number, 01474 554933, for all of it.
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