Poole Car & Van Hire

U-Drive Poole & Other UK Locations

U-Drive is a family-owned car hire, van, truck and minibus rental company, with locations throughout Cardiff, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon and Somerset. Our Poole address, directions and contact information are shown below. You can select your closest U-Drive location from the menu to view the contact details, opening hours and branch location maps for our various offices around the UK.

Poole is a coastal town in Dorset, southern England, known for its large natural harbour and sandy beaches. Poole has an enormously rich heritage stretching back thousands of years.  From humble beginnings the town centre grew up from the quay as it became one of the South Coast’s most important medieval ports. The U-Drive Branch is 4 miles to the north East of Poole on Fancy Road.

During the Iron Age and Roman conquest of southern England a military port was situated at Hamworthy, the massive Poole logboat dredged from the Harbour is one of the finest examples in Western Europe. Poole Harbour had the reputation as a nest of pirates.  In 1405 the town was attacked by a combined Franco-Spanish force retaliating for the exploits of Harry Paye of Poole, one of the more important sea captains who raided their coasts. In 1568 Elizabeth I granted the Great Charter under which Poole became "The County of the Town of Poole", separate from the county of Dorset. Poole played its part in both World Wars and in particular was one of the points from which Operation Overlord was launched for the invasion of Europe in 1944.  After the war Poole gathered momentum as an industrial and commercial centre and developed its name as home to many cutting edge industries in the marine, banking, engineering and Tourism sectors.