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The nearby 29 mile £24m section of M6 opened on Monday 29 July 1963, from Preston to Lymm, making the M6 now 65 miles. [2] It was the first motorway service area to have a restaurant on the bridge over the motorway. The Thelwall Viaduct opened on the same day. The motorway section largely replaced the A49, which passed north-south next to the ...
The services have been praised as being the best in the country. [6] In 2003, Westmorland won Best Local Retailer in BBC Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards, and in 2006 they were awarded Best Motorway Services in Britain by Which?. [7] The farm shops, which sell locally sourced produce, were officially opened by Prince Charles in 2004. [3]
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It is located entirely within England, running for just over 230 miles (370 km) from the Midlands to the border with Scotland. It begins at Junction 19 of the M1 and the western end of the A14 at the Catthorpe Interchange , near Rugby before heading north-west.
The services was built to fill one of the largest gaps without services on the major motorway network, whereby vehicles travelling south on the M6 and joining the M1 must travel for 25 miles between Corley and Watford Gap. [1]
This category lists motorway service stations on the M6 motorway in England. Pages in category "M6 motorway service stations" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Norton Canes services is a motorway service area on the M6 Toll, in the village of Norton Canes near the towns of Brownhills, Cannock, and Walsall, in Staffordshire, England. It is operated by Roadchef, which has a 25-year lease on the site. [2] The company also uses the site as its head office. [3]
National Highways has unveiled plans to replace eight bridge deck structures along a six-mile (10k) stretch of the M6 between junctions 37 and 38 through Lune Gorge near Tebay, in Cumbria.
Stafford services is a pair of motorway service stations on the M6 motorway near Stone, Staffordshire, England.. It is unusual, in that the facilities on the northbound (opened 1996) and southbound (1999) sides of the motorway are operated by separate companies: Moto (formerly Granada) and Roadchef respectively.