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The notion of a future motorway service area at Kempshott continued to be part of the Hampshire Local Plan, until the Highways Agency requested it be removed in March 1995. They confirmed that they still owned the land, but said that it was "not in use". By this stage, building new service areas was no longer their responsibility. Green Flag Limited, registered office: The Wharf, Neville Street, Leeds, LS1 4AZ. Registered in England and Wales, No. 01003081.

Revealed: the best and worst motorway services in the UK

Visit Telford services at Junction 4 of the M54 in Shropshire at your peril! At least that’s what one reviewer said. “Stay hungry. Stay thirsty. Whatever you do, don’t stop here,” claimed a review that Brindley found. The planners felt that Kempshott was an important location because it would be the last place to provide any facilities for HGV drivers before they reached the end of the motorway. Perhaps that's what put the developers off - they knew that there were other facilities on local A-roads, such as the original Popham, and they didn't want to compete with them. Rory Boland, editor of magazine Which? Travel, said: "The results of our survey show that it pays to plan ahead to avoid some of the UK's worst motorway services.At some point this year, you will have to pull into a motorway services. But the kind of experience you have – supreme or shoddy – will depend on which services you use. A new survey has revealed that there’s a huge difference between the best and worst. The motorway's public inquiry was strongly against building the service area, but it was considered too important to drop and revised layouts were analysed. The exact position of the north-eastbound service area still hadn't been chosen. One option would have had the north-eastbound service area further west, by Longcross Studios, where land was being sold at the time. Roadchef runs three of the UK's 10 worst services, including Watford Gap on the M1 (junctions 16-17, 43%) and Sandbach on the M6 (junctions 16-17, 42%), both of which earned a dismal one star for their range of facilities.

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Welcome Break, meanwhile, has the dubious distinction of being responsible for half of the UK's 10 worst service stations. Birchanger Green (M11, junction 8), London Gateway (M1, junctions 2-4), Keele (M6, junctions 15-16) and Newport Pagnell (M1, junctions 14-15), all received a low customer score, but none are as bad as Gordano on the M5 (junction 19, 40%). Do battle with Britain's best service stations in Motorway Service Stations: the most anticipated event in motoring since the electric sunroof. On this gaming journey, you’ll be racing your opponents using 5 categories to steal every station in the game. Only he’s not so adorable anymore. Don’t worry, he’s still got his cute little face, just on a much much bigger appendage. He must have been flaccid before because now he’s four feet of pure magnificent shaft. Everyone’s got their favourite motorway service area, so we travelled the length and breadth of the UK and included the best and worst in this game. Trumps cards have never had the motorway service station treatment before… And they’re never likely to again!

The theory at the time was that service areas close to London would make the most money. With its high traffic levels and proximity to the M25, Trumps Green is still a desirable location today. Forecasts in the 1970s said this was going to be the most profitable service station in the country. So why wasn't it built? Opened in 1959, poor old Toddington Northbound has seen better days. Its lino comes trodden with a pattern of dirty footprints and there’s a persistent smell of stale fast food in the air. This, like many other service stops, is not a place to linger. It’s what Alan Partridge’s creators must have had in mind when they moved him into a fictional motorway hotel (the Linton Travel Tavern) as his career crashed spectacularly. While Moto is responsible for the worst service station in the UK (Bridgwater), other brands also have some rest stops that you'd do well to steer clear of.