Directory
Coach and bus operators by county
Every bus and coach (PSV) operator licence held by a company in the DVSA file dated 7 September 2026, by the county of each operating centre. For schools, clubs and groups hiring a coach, and for anyone checking a bus operator.
Check a coach or bus company’s PSV licence before you book: 3,117 companies and organisations hold a PSV operator licence in Great Britain, the most in Greater London (338).
- PSV companies
- 3,117
- Counties and areas
- 101
- Towns with a page
- 125
- Most in
- Greater London
Where the coach companies are
- Greater London338 companies, 23%
- Greater Manchester181 companies, 12%
- West Midlands177 companies, 12%
- Lancashire100 companies, 7%
- Essex95 companies, 7%
- Buckinghamshire93 companies, 6%
- Kent89 companies, 6%
- West Yorkshire88 companies, 6%
- Surrey86 companies, 6%
- Berkshire81 companies, 6%
- Merseyside68 companies, 5%
- Hampshire61 companies, 4%
England
- Bedfordshire52 companies
- Berkshire81 companies
- Bristol19 companies
- Buckinghamshire93 companies
- Cambridgeshire50 companies
- Cheshire56 companies
- Cornwall26 companies
- County Durham53 companies
- Cumbria46 companies
- Derbyshire52 companies
- Devon47 companies
- Dorset44 companies
- East Riding of Yorkshire25 companies
- East Sussex29 companies
- Essex95 companies
- Gloucestershire55 companies
- Greater London338 companies
- Greater Manchester181 companies
- Hampshire61 companies
- Herefordshire15 companies
- Hertfordshire57 companies
- Isle of Wight9 companies
- Kent89 companies
- Lancashire100 companies
- Leicestershire46 companies
- Lincolnshire56 companies
- Merseyside68 companies
- Norfolk49 companies
- North Yorkshire58 companies
- Northamptonshire33 companies
- Northumberland26 companies
- Nottinghamshire44 companies
- Oxfordshire45 companies
- Rutland2 companies
- Shropshire26 companies
- Somerset58 companies
- South Yorkshire57 companies
- Staffordshire55 companies
- Suffolk49 companies
- Surrey86 companies
- Tyne and Wear31 companies
- Warwickshire36 companies
- West Midlands177 companies
- West Sussex50 companies
- West Yorkshire88 companies
- Wiltshire32 companies
- Worcestershire31 companies
Scotland
- Aberdeen19 companies
- Aberdeenshire21 companies
- Angus6 companies
- Argyll and Bute9 companies
- Clackmannanshire4 companies
- Dumfries and Galloway6 companies
- Dundee10 companies
- East Ayrshire9 companies
- East Dunbartonshire6 companies
- East Lothian5 companies
- East Renfrewshire5 companies
- Edinburgh43 companies
- Falkirk11 companies
- Fife22 companies
- Glasgow22 companies
- Highland33 companies
- Inverclyde11 companies
- Midlothian14 companies
- Moray6 companies
- Na h-Eileanan Siar11 companies
- North Ayrshire6 companies
- North Lanarkshire31 companies
- Orkney Islands6 companies
- Perth and Kinross12 companies
- Renfrewshire21 companies
- Scottish Borders9 companies
- Shetland Islands7 companies
- South Ayrshire4 companies
- South Lanarkshire30 companies
- Stirling9 companies
- West Dunbartonshire6 companies
- West Lothian30 companies
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent4 companies
- Bridgend12 companies
- Caerphilly11 companies
- Cardiff23 companies
- Carmarthenshire28 companies
- Ceredigion6 companies
- Conwy12 companies
- Denbighshire18 companies
- Flintshire15 companies
- Gwynedd11 companies
- Isle of Anglesey7 companies
- Merthyr Tydfil8 companies
- Monmouthshire6 companies
- Neath Port Talbot14 companies
- Newport11 companies
- Pembrokeshire9 companies
- Powys17 companies
- Rhondda Cynon Taf18 companies
- Swansea20 companies
- Torfaen7 companies
- Vale of Glamorgan6 companies
- Wrexham12 companies
Towns with the most coach companies
Towns with at least 8 company PSV licences have their own page. Number = company PSV licences.
Before you book a coach in Great Britain
Anyone who runs a vehicle for hire or reward that can carry 9 or more passengers needs a PSV operator licence (GOV.UK). Ask the company for its licence number, open its page here and check that the licence is valid and that the vehicles you need fit its authorisation.
DVSA file 7 Sep 2026Source: DVSA operator licence data, file dated , read . We last checked DVSA for a newer file on 7 October 2026. How we read it
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