Burtonwood — M Cardiff Gate — M4. Charnock Richard — M6. Corley — M6. Derby — A Fleet — M3. Gordano — M5. Gretna Green — A74M. Hartshead Moor — M Hopwood Park — M Keele — M6. Leicester Forest East — M1.
London Gateway — M1. Membury — M4. Michaelwood — M5. Newport Pagnell — M1. Peartree — A Rothwell Truck Stop — A Sarn Park — M4. Customers can get assistance by either phoning the services or going in and asking for help at WHSmith. An online account is required to use the charging point s.
Payment for charging is made via your Tesla account. There are bollards on the approach to the ATM s. The minimum width between the bollards is 93cm. The height of the bollard s is 94cm. The bollards contrast visually with the paving. There is not a lowered ATM available. This information is for the entrance located at the front of the building.
This entrance is signed with 'Welcome Break'. There is step-free access at this entrance. There is a canopy or recess which provides weather protection at this entrance. The main door s open s automatically. The width of the door opening is cm. There is a second set of doors. The door s open s automatically. There are bollards at this entrance. The minimum width between the bollards is cm.
The height of the bollard s is 78cm. The bollards do contrast visually with the paving. There is step-free access throughout the building. There is flooring which is shiny and could cause issues with glare or look slippery to some people.
There is flooring which includes patterns or colours which could be confusing or look like steps or holes to some people. There is good colour contrast between the walls and floor in all areas. The lighting levels are moderate to good. Music is played everywhere. The colour, design and typeface of signs is not consistent throughout the building.
The seating area is located to the left after you enter at the rear. There is step-free access to the seating area. In this area there are tables, booths, bench seats and chairs without armrests available.
Some chairs are fixed to the floor. Tables are not permanently fixed to the floor. The distance between the floor and the underside of the lowest table is 71cm.
The distance between the floor and the underside of the highest table is 72cm. Lighting levels are moderate to good. Access to the additional seating area is via a slight slope leading up to the majority of the seating. There is an outdoor seating area located at the rear of the main seating area.
There is a slight slope leading up to the double doors out to the outdoor seating area. Accessible toilet facilities are available. This accessible toilet is located ahead as you enter the services. This accessible toilet is approximately 8m from the entrance. There is step-free access to the accessible toilet. This is a shared toilet. A key is not required for the accessible toilet. There is pictorial signage on or near the toilet door. The contrast between the external door s and wall s is good.
The door s open s outwards. The door is locked by a sliding bolt. The width of the accessible toilet opening is 85cm. The contrast between the internal door s and wall s is good. The door has a horizontal grab rail. The contrast between the horizontal grab rail and internal door s is good. The dimensions of the accessible toilet are cm x cm. The accessible toilet does have an unobstructed minimum turning space of cm x cm.
The lighting is permanent. There is a lateral transfer space. As you face the toilet pan the transfer space is on the left. The lateral transfer space is cm. There is a flush on the transfer side. There is not a spatula type lever flush. There is a lever flush. There is a dropdown rail on the transfer side.
The contrast between the dropdown rail s and wall is good. The difference between the two - other than 20 years and two totally different political attitude - was that when the M40 only ran to Oxford it was more of a commuter motorway, isolated from any other motorways while providing relief for High Wycombe and the villages along the A The road between London and Oxford actually just from Uxbridge to Wheatley had one desginated service area, Abbey Barns.
It is named after Abbey Barn Farm. Positioned between J3 and J4, Abbey Barns had four ghost slips provided as part of the original construction of the road, which was built in The land was not purchased. In the site was opened to bids for an operator to build it, but no replies were received.
A footbridge would have been provided, as would a connection to the local road network. That lack of interest, which was becoming a common problem at the time, was enough to finish off the project for good. Government policy was later updated to state that short motorways didn't need service areas, and planners "weren't sure" if the M40 even needed one.
Instead two large lay-bys with toilets and payphones were built on the A40 Wheatley Bypass, which would act as the first place to stop for drivers leaving the motorway. Unusually, the ghost slips here have not been maintained, and are now in an extremely poor state of repair. After the plan to use Abbey Barns was postponed, further environmental concerns were raised which made building a service area here more unlikely.
Additionally, it's understood that changes at the local authority in caused them to become opposed to the development. Shell attempted to buy the land at Abbey Barns and win planning permission privately, which did not work. BP later tried the same. Documents from the s make a few references to a "High Wycombe services" opening in , but noted that no exact location had been chosen at the time.
One particular document name-checks Park Lane, which takes us to a field near Booker west of J4 , which we will revisit later. As a result, the planning process was much more contentious than when the early motorways were being drawn in the s.
Of interest to us is the battle between counties over where the service stations would be. Oxfordshire County Council insisted that there should only be one motorway service area in Oxfordshire, and that M40 J10 would be the best place for it.
The "near Gaydon" site became Barn Hill, which would open as Warwick. Warwick's location was chosen because of its proximity to sites planned along the M When the M40 opened in , neither of these sites were ready, so emergency toilet facilities were provided at several junctions along the way.
Famously, this formed the longest motorway in Britain without any service areas, forming part of a mile route between Folkestone and Telford that had nowhere to stop. This issue would be raised frequently in the media. While there was going to be a whole new section of motorway with new service areas, the issues on the original road remained unresolved. Following informal advice from Wycombe District Council, in the Department of Transport formally announced that they were going to be building Stokenchurch services at M40 J5.
When the plan became public knowledge, many residents objected, prompting Wycombe District Council to announce their opposition and the local MP to launch a campaign against it.
In the Department of Transport commissioned a study to examine 15 other possible sites on the M
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