List of motorway service areas in the United Kingdom


Motorway service areas, also known as service stations and commonly abbreviated to MSAs are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel, rest, or take refreshments. Some also incorporate or adjoin hotels. Only 20 motorway services in the UK remain in the ownership of the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies. The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto, Welcome Break and RoadChef and a developing chain of stations being constructed by Extra.
Some of the service areas on this list are on major A-roads rather than motorways. These share the defining properties of motorway service areas, being named service areas operated by a single company with a range of facilities including food & drink providers, toilet facilities and vehicle servicing facilities. Such service areas are rare on most A-roads, where basic filling stations with a single shop are more common.
PictureNameOperatorRoadCountyNotes
Abington servicesWelcome BreakM74South LanarkshireThe service station is one of fourteen for which large murals were commissioned from artist David Fisher in the 1990s, designed to reflect the local area and history.
Annandale Water servicesRoadChefA74Dumfriesshire
Baldock servicesExtraA1Hertfordshire
Beaconsfield servicesExtraM40Buckinghamshire
Birch servicesMotoM62Greater Manchester
Birchanger Green servicesWelcome BreakM11Essex
Blackburn with Darwen servicesExtraM65Lancashire
Blyth servicesMotoA1Nottinghamshire
Bothwell servicesRoadChefM74South Lanarkshire
Bridgwater servicesMotoM5Somerset
Burton-in-Kendal servicesMotoM6Lancashire
Burtonwood servicesWelcome BreakM62Cheshire
Cambridge servicesExtraA14Cambridgeshire
Cardiff Gate servicesWelcome BreakM4Cardiff
Cardiff West servicesMotoM4Cardiff
Charnock Richard ServicesWelcome BreakM6Lancashire
Cherwell Valley servicesMotoM40Oxfordshire
Chester servicesRoadChefM56Cheshire
Chieveley servicesMotoM4Berkshire
Clacket Lane servicesRoadChefM25Surrey
Cobham servicesExtraM25Surrey
Corley servicesWelcome BreakM6Warwickshire
Cullompton servicesExtraM5Devon
Derby South servicesWelcome BreakA50Derbyshire
Derby with Burton servicesQuadrant EstatesA38 / A50Derbyshire
Doncaster North servicesMotoM18South Yorkshire
Donington Park servicesMotoM1Leicestershire
Durham servicesRoadChefA1County Durham
Exeter servicesMotoM5Devon
Ferrybridge servicesMotoM62Yorkshire
Fleet servicesWelcome BreakM3Hampshire
Frankley servicesMotoM5Worcestershire
Gloucester ServicesWestmorlandM5Gloucestershire
Gordano servicesWelcome BreakM5Somerset
Grantham North servicesMotoA1Lincolnshire
Gretna Green servicesWelcome BreakA74Dumfries & Galloway
Hamilton servicesRoadChefM74South Lanarkshire
Hartshead Moor servicesWelcome BreakM62West Yorkshire
Heston servicesMotoM4Greater London
Hilton Park servicesMotoM6Staffordshire
Hopwood Park servicesWelcome BreakM42Worcestershire
Keele servicesWelcome BreakM6Staffordshire
Killington Lake servicesRoadChefM6Cumbria
Kinross servicesMotoM90Perthshire
Knutsford ServicesMotoM6Cheshire
Lancaster ServicesMotoM6Lancashire
Leicester North servicesExtraA46Leicestershire
Leicester Forest East servicesWelcome BreakM1Leicestershire
Leigh Delamere servicesMotoM4Wiltshire
London Gateway servicesWelcome BreakM1Greater London
Magor servicesRoadchefM4Monmouthshire
Maidstone servicesRoadChefM20Kent
Medway servicesMotoM2Kent
Membury servicesWelcome BreakM4Berkshire
Michaelwood servicesWelcome BreakM5Gloucestershire
Newport Pagnell servicesWelcome BreakM1Buckinghamshire
Northampton servicesRoadChefM1Northamptonshire
Norton Canes servicesRoadChefM6 TollStaffordshire
Oxford servicesWelcome BreakM40Oxfordshire
Peartree servicesWelcome BreakA34Oxfordshire
Pease Pottage servicesMotoM23West Sussex
Peterborough servicesExtraA1Cambridgeshire
Pont Abraham servicesRoadChefM4CarmarthenshireIt is located at junction 49, the western terminus of the M4 motorway in Wales where the M4 joins the A48 and A483 on a roundabout. The Pont Abraham Motorway service area was opened in 1983. It is near Pontarddulais and owned by RoadChef.
Reading servicesMotoM4Berkshire
Rivington servicesEuro GaragesM61Lancashire
Rownhams servicesRoadChefM27Hampshire
Sandbach servicesRoadChefM6Cheshire
Sarn Park servicesWelcome BreakM4Glamorgan
Scotch Corner servicesMotoA1North Yorkshire
Sedgemoor servicesNorthbound:
Welcome Break		M5Somerset
Sedgemoor servicesSouthbound:
RoadChef		M5Somerset
Severn View servicesMotoM48Gloucestershire
South Mimms servicesWelcome BreakM25Hertfordshire
Southwaite servicesMotoM6Cumbria
Stafford servicesNorthbound:
Moto		M6Staffordshire
Stafford servicesSouthbound:
RoadChef		M6Staffordshire
Stirling servicesMotoM9 / M80Stirling
Strensham servicesRoadChefM5Worcestershire
Swansea servicesMotoM4West Glamorgan
Tamworth servicesMotoM42Staffordshire
Taunton Deane servicesRoadChefM5Somerset
Tebay ServicesWestmorlandM6Cumbria
Telford servicesWelcome BreakM54Shropshire
Thurrock servicesMotoM25Essex
Tibshelf servicesRoadChefM1Derbyshire
Toddington servicesMotoM1Bedfordshire
Todhills Rest AreaMotoM6Cumbria
Trowell servicesMotoM1Nottinghamshire
Warwick servicesWelcome BreakM40Warwickshire
Washington servicesMotoA1Tyne & Wear
Watford Gap servicesRoadChefM1Northamptonshire
Wetherby servicesMotoA1North Yorkshire
Winchester servicesMotoM3Hampshire
Woodall servicesWelcome BreakM1South Yorkshire
Woolley Edge servicesMotoM1West Yorkshire