Looking for a taxi transfer to a Cruise Ship Terminal from Honiton? Why not start your cruise in style, we offer cost effective travel from Honiton to the following ports:

• Honiton to the Port of Dover
• Honiton to the Port of Greenock/Glasgow
• Honiton to the Port of Harwich
• Honiton to the Port of Hull
• Honiton to the Port of Liverpool
• Honiton to the Port of Portsmouth
• Honiton to the Port of Southampton
• Honiton to the Port of Leith/Edinburgh
• Honiton to the Port of London Tilbury
• Honiton to the Port of Felixstowe
• Honiton to the Port of Newcastle

With many years’ experience in ensuring our customers arrive at their destination on time, Cars Exec offer the very best in service with our excellent chauffeurs.

Our chauffeur driven taxi service provides comfort, style and luxury, all in one trip, to any of the major UK cruise ports from your home or airport. We will then be there on your return, ready to take care of you and your luggage, returning you home with the minimum of stress.

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Professional corporate travel

We provide a trusted, professional but discreet service to our business and corporate clients in Honiton, with impeccable chauffeur driven cars as well as luxury people carriers to Honiton based UK Companies, international business and discerning private clients, travelling to and from London.

Cars Exec offer cars to and from important meetings, a meet and greet service from major airports and train stations across mainland UK. as well as a daily commute service locally, or long distance to London and other UK cities

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Want to make your special event even more stylish? We will sweep you off to a day at the races, a concert, a birthday treat or even a proposal in our comfortable, luxurious cars. Just sit back and relax as you ride in style in executive chauffeur driven hire,

• Wimbledon.
• Birthday Treat / Surprise.
• Ascot.
• Silverstone.
• Wembley / O2 Arena.
• Anniversary celebrations.

Our VIP car service is the perfect prestige car hire service for you if you want to make the right impression, but at comparable taxi prices.

Honiton in Devon

Honiton is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, 17 miles north east of Exeter in the county of Devon.

The town grew along the line of the Fosse Way, the ancient Roman road linking Exeter to Lincoln (Lindum). Contrary to 19th-century theories, it is unlikely to have been known as a stopping-point by the Romans, who built a small fort for that purpose just to the west of the present town. Honiton’s location is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Honetone, meaning Huna’s tun or farmstead.

Honiton has long been famous for lace, pottery and glove making, and Honiton still has numerous shops dedicated to lace or pottery.

Lace-making

Lake-making was introduced by Flemish immigrants in the Elizabethan era. In the 17th century thousands of people produced lace by hand in their homes, and in the 19th century Queen Victoria had her wedding dress made of Honiton lace, though the dress itself was made in the fishing village of Beer. Honiton was one of the centres for the medieval cloth trade, but eventually the town became most famous as a centre for lace. Allhallow’s Museum of Lace and Antiquities is situated in the town’s oldest building and contains numerous items of local interest and history, including a comprehensive collection of the famous Honiton lace.

Honiton was the centre of trading, but lace making itself was multi-centred. The lace makers were mostly women working from their cottages, far from any market. Honiton was a centre for dispatch to far-away markets. There was no specific body to oversee the quality of work and design and consequently inferior quality lace began to emerge, leading to a downward slide. This was accentuated by competition from the strictly regulated Flemish lace makers of the time.

The town also became known for its pottery.

During the 18th century, fires destroyed many of the older buildings in Honiton. Consequently, much of what we see today was built at that time. The town is attractive and prosperous with an excellent shopping centre, holding twice-weekly street markets.

Honiton Today

Honiton’s main industry today is agriculture. The rich farmland is watered by the River Otter. Steep sided hills rise between the town and the sea and narrow lanes wind their way from Honiton through the local countryside. There are many attractive villages in the area.

More recently the town has become a centre for antiques and antiquarian books. There are around thirty establishments connected with this trade and regular auctions are held in the town. Honiton has an extensive selection of restaurants, cafés and a wide choice of accommodation from luxury hotels to self-catering cottages. It is an ideal base for a visit to this part of Devon.